Advanced Business Power

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Introduction

Advanced 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 C1 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.

Грамматика

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
  • use gerund and infinitive forms of verbs
  • use appropriate conjunctions and linking words to connect clauses and sentences
  • use definite, indefinite, and zero articles
  • use appropriate forms to express a variety of future situations

Словарный запас

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

  • Грамматика: Talking about quantity
  • Словарный запас: Formal and informal equivalents 1
  • Чтение: 7 steps to a successful marketing campaign
  • Прослушивание: A company with no boss
  • Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs 01
  • Грамматика: Modal Verbs
  • Словарный запас: People in business
  • Чтение: Cost of living crisis
  • Прослушивание: Women say no to non-promotable tasks
  • Словарный запас: Wordbuilding 01

Module 2

  • Грамматика: Mixed Conditionals
  • Словарный запас: Business idioms 1
  • Чтение: How I made my millions
  • Прослушивание: Airline Strikes
  • Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs 02
  • Грамматика: Relative Clauses
  • Словарный запас: Confusing words
  • Чтение: Office housework: Not a woman’s job!
  • Прослушивание: The Harry Potter business
  • Словарный запас: Wordbuilding 02

Module 3

  • Грамматика: Conjunctions and Connectors
  • Словарный запас: Collocations: Adjective + Noun 1
  • Чтение: The story of Marmite
  • Прослушивание: Flying technology
  • Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs 03
  • Грамматика: Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Словарный запас: Business meetings
  • Чтение: When communication breaks down
  • Прослушивание: The digital world: are the elderly being left behind?
  • Словарный запас: Wordbuilding 03

Module 4

  • Грамматика: Wishes
  • Словарный запас: Prepositional collocations 1
  • Чтение: A job vacancy
  • Прослушивание: Kidfluencers
  • Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs 04
  • Грамматика: Talking about the future
  • Словарный запас: Pay
  • Чтение: Downshifting
  • Прослушивание: The appeal of streaming games
  • Словарный запас: Wordbuilding 04

Module 5

  • Грамматика: Articles
  • Словарный запас: Formal and informal equivalents 2
  • Чтение: Fair trade
  • Прослушивание: Meetings: love them or hate them
  • Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs 05
  • Грамматика: Verb Patterns
  • Словарный запас: Abbreviations
  • Чтение: Online retailer hits the buffers
  • Прослушивание: Robots in the workplace
  • Словарный запас: Wordbuilding 05

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 Advanced Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any advanced level course including our Advanced Plus Power course.