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.
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
- 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
Slovná zásoba
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
- Slovná zásoba: Formal and informal equivalents 1
- Čítanie: 7 steps to a successful marketing campaign
- Počúvanie: A company with no boss
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 01
- Gramatika: Modal Verbs
- Slovná zásoba: People in business
- Čítanie: Cost of living crisis
- Počúvanie: Women say no to non-promotable tasks
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 01
Module 2
- Gramatika: Mixed Conditionals
- Slovná zásoba: Business idioms 1
- Čítanie: How I made my millions
- Počúvanie: Airline Strikes
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 02
- Gramatika: Relative Clauses
- Slovná zásoba: Confusing words
- Čítanie: Office housework: Not a woman’s job!
- Počúvanie: The Harry Potter business
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 02
Module 3
- Gramatika: Conjunctions and Connectors
- Slovná zásoba: Collocations: Adjective + Noun 1
- Čítanie: The story of Marmite
- Počúvanie: Flying technology
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 03
- Gramatika: Gerunds and Infinitives
- Slovná zásoba: Business meetings
- Čítanie: When communication breaks down
- Počúvanie: The digital world: are the elderly being left behind?
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 03
Module 4
- Gramatika: Wishes
- Slovná zásoba: Prepositional collocations 1
- Čítanie: A job vacancy
- Počúvanie: Kidfluencers
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 04
- Gramatika: Talking about the future
- Slovná zásoba: Pay
- Čítanie: Downshifting
- Počúvanie: The appeal of streaming games
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 04
Module 5
- Gramatika: Articles
- Slovná zásoba: Formal and informal equivalents 2
- Čítanie: Fair trade
- Počúvanie: Meetings: love them or hate them
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 05
- Gramatika: Verb Patterns
- Slovná zásoba: Abbreviations
- Čítanie: Online retailer hits the buffers
- Počúvanie: Robots in the workplace
- Slovná zásoba: 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.