Intermediate Business Power

Introduction

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 Intermediate CEFR B1 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:

• use articles correctly and accurately
• use adverbs to give information about time and duration
• use conditional sentences to talk about possible actions in the future
• ask questions indirectly
• compare things using a variety of comparative and superlative forms
• identify transitive and intransitive verb forms and be accurate when following one verb form with another which will be in the gerund or infinitive form
• use prepositions of place and movement correctly
• join words, clauses, and sentences correctly using a variety of linking devices

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, statistics, and making small talk.

Unit summary

Follow-up

Students completing the Intermediate Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any intermediate course including our Upper Intermediate Business Power course.