Upper Intermediate Business Power

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

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

Follow-up

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