Introduction
Upper Intermediate Business Power is an online course consisting of 50 units of English and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.
Course aims
To give students at Upper Intermediate CEFR B2 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for general business contexts at this level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary reading listening writing and speaking.
Gramatika
By the end of the course students will be able to:
- talk about quantity
- accurately use countable and uncountable nouns
- use conditional sentences to talk about unlikely actions in the future and impossible alternative present and past situations and regrets
- use modal verbs to talk about possibility, certainty, advice, and obligation
- differentiate between the present perfect and simple past
- talk about the future using a variety of verb forms
- report what people have said and questions they have asked
Vārdnīca
By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 400 lexical items including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.
Skills
By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of business contexts, including meetings, presentations, travel arrangements, and dealing with staff.
Unit summary
Entry test
- A 50-question test: which will be used for comparative purposes with the end of course exit test.
Module 1
- Gramatika: Talking about quantity
- Vārdnīca: Business meetings 1
- Lasīšana: When communication breaks down
- Gramatika: Countable and uncountable nouns
- Vārdnīca: People in business
- Klausīšanās: Brand loyalty
- Vārdnīca: Wordbuilding
- Vārdnīca: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Describing your business or job
- Vārdnīca: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 1
Module 2
- Gramatika: Modal verbs – advice and obligation
- Vārdnīca: Dealing with staff
- Lasīšana: A review of a car
- Gramatika: Modal verbs – possibility and certainty
- Vārdnīca: Buying and selling
- Klausīšanās: How luxury brands are surviving the recession
- Vārdnīca: Wordbuilding
- Vārdnīca: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Being polite in English
- Vārdnīca: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 2
Module 3
- Gramatika: Present perfect and simple past
- Vārdnīca: People in business
- Lasīšana: Great inventions – the Sony Walkman
- Gramatika: Talking about the future
- Vārdnīca: Corporate structure
- Klausīšanās: Innovative advertising techniques
- Vārdnīca: Wordbuilding
- Vārdnīca: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Presentations
- Vārdnīca: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 3
Module 4
- Gramatika: Second conditional
- Vārdnīca: Telephoning
- Lasīšana: La Jolie Fleur hotel
- Gramatika: Third conditional
- Vārdnīca: Hiring and firing staff
- Klausīšanās: Business trip travel arrangements
- Vārdnīca: Wordbuilding
- Vārdnīca: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Agreeing and disagreeing
- Vārdnīca: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 4
Module 5
- Gramatika: Reported statements
- Vārdnīca: Business meetings 2
- Lasīšana: A job vacancy
- Gramatika: Reported questions
- Vārdnīca: Money and finance
- Klausīšanās: A job interview
- Vārdnīca: Wordbuilding
- Vārdnīca: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Talking about statistics
- Vārdnīca: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 5
Exit test
- A 50-question test: which covers the same areas as the entry test thereby giving students an accurate measure of their progress through the course.
Follow-up
Students completing the Upper Intermediate Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any advanced level course including our Advanced Power course.