General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title Communicating At Work - Intermediate English For The Workplace
Language English
Module lecturer mgr Martyna Surma
Lecturer's email surma@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position senior lecturer
Faculty Foreign Languages Teaching Centre
Semester 2023/2024 (winter)
Duration 30
ECTS 5
USOS code 31-ENG-WORKPLACE-PIE

Timetable

Monday 11.30

Collegium Geographicum,  Bogumiła Krygowskiego Street

room 13

Module aim (aims)

The course aims at developing communication skills that will enable the students to operate successfully in an English-speaking work environment. It offers a variety of practice exercises focused on building useful vocabulary and developing listening and speaking skills for everyday working life.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

B1+/B2  General English

Syllabus

1) introductions and greetings, meeting people in business, small talk;

2) describing your job; work conditions;

3) describing a company;

4) telephoning;

5) making and changing appointments;

6) participating in meetings;

7) numbers, graphs, diagrams;

8) presentations:

9) giving updates, checking progress, short reports;

10) opinions, agreeing and disagreeing;

11) entertaining and socialising;

12) business travel;

13) customer calls, dealing with problems;

14) offers, requests, suggestions;

Reading list