712-0189/01 – Professional English Conversation - Finance and National Economy (AOK-FaNH)
Gurantor department | Institute of Languages | Credits | 2 |
Subject guarantor | Mgr. Zuzana Trawinská | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Zuzana Trawinská |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2012/2013 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim is to develop English professional conversation focused on finance and national economy with the output level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Teaching methods
Tutorials
Summary
Students deal with given topics in a communicative way, active discussion is expected.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
MASCULL, Bill: Business Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2002
RILEY, David: Reward - communicative activities for students of Business English (intermediate, upper-intermediate), different editions
Various internet sources, e.g.: www.onestopenglish.com; http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ etc.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Credit test
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation during tutorials, working out of assigned written and oral tasks, 80% attendance, min. test result: 65%.
Required level of English: B2
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Money
2. Sales and costs
3. Profitability and unprofitability
4. Assets, liabilities and the balance sheet
5. The bottom line
6. Share capital and debt
7. Finance and the economy
8. Personal finance
9. Financial centres
10. Trading
11. Wrongdoing and corruption
12. Ethics
13. Presentation skills
14. Credit test
The teacher reserves the right to modify, supplement and make changes, should the need arise.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction