1: From General English to Business English
2: Business English / Economic Terms, Exercises in Business English,
Business E-mails Exercises, Contract Negotiations, Business Negotiations /
Talks , Employment Counter offers, Cover letter terms / Vocabulary, Customer
Relations Management Software
Job Interview Vocabulary, Corporate Buzzwords / Jargon, IT Project
Management, Project Management, The Nature of Business, Business Glossary
3: Business English Vocabulary Exercises – Basic Terms, General Economic /
Business Terms Exercises, Sales, Trade Shows, Management, Noun Adjuncts
4: Business English Grammar I, Relative clauses, Exercises, Conditional
sentences (I, II, III, mixed), Inversion; ‘Wish’ Sentence constructions,
Phrasal Verbs Exercise, Adjectives – Adverbs, Exercises, Adverbs and
Participles, The Indefinite Article, The Definite Article, Exercises , Some
Any – Much Many, Exercises , Singular – Plural, Determiners, Various Grammar
Points
5: Economics – Business Cycles, Inflation, Supply and Demand, Business
Competition
6: Investing – The Stock Market, a. Investing (Finance), b. The Stock Market
(Finance), c. Vocabulary relating to Investments and the Stock Market
7: Contracts – Agreements, Vocabulary and Exercises
8: Business English Tests – Exam test items, Quality Control, Business
English Exercise
Business English Test 1, Business Collocations Quiz
Business English Vocabulary Test, Business English Test 2
9: Defining Marketing, Marketing Vocabulary, Marketing Vocabulary Multiple
Choice Tests, ‘Greenification’, Advertising, Warranties
10: Sales Vocabulary (A), Glossary, Sales Vocabulary (B), Business Planning
11: : Conferences Vocabulary, Revision Test (Contracts, marketing,
warranties, business planning, and conferences), Numbers Vocabulary,
Insurance Vocabulary, Glossary
12: Ethical Investment, Leadership , Definitions of Leader and Leadership,
Leadership versus Management, Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs, Empowerment,
Cash flow
Market Share, Business English language (Various)
13. General Revision Exercises
The aims of the course are the following:
- To teach the students basic terms and concepts of Economics (Supply and Demand, Business Cycles, Inflation, Investment, Competition, ‘Greenification’ / ‘Green’ Economy, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Capital, Factors of Production) in English.
- To teach the students basic terms and concepts of the language of Business in English.
- To teach the students basic terms and concepts regarding various disciplines pertaining to Economics and Business English (Management, Business Administration, Banking, Finance, Customer Service, Accounting, Tax-related terms / Taxes, Negotiations, Conferences, Business Correspondence, Cover Letters, Customer Relations, Counter offers, Job Interviews, Project Management, Sales, Trade shows, Stock Markets, Contracts and Agreements, Quality Control, Advertising, Leadership / Leaders, Ethical Investment, Empowerment, Cash flows, Insurance / Warranties and Basic Math (Numbers, Decimals, Fractions, Percentages).
- To train the students in all the above topics / subjects through many language exercises and relevant texts of Economic and Business English content.
Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to:
• Understand and define / identify clearly basic terms and concepts of Economics (Supply and Demand, Business Cycles, Inflation, Investment, Competition, ‘Greenification’ / ‘Green’ Economy, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Capital, Factors of Production) in English.
• Understand and define / identify clearly basic terms and concepts of Business English.
• Comprehend, define / identify, and distinguish between basic terms and concepts regarding various disciplines pertaining to Economics and Business English (Management, Business Administration, Banking, Finance, Customer Service, Accounting, Tax-related terms / Taxes, Negotiations, Conferences, Business Correspondence, Cover Letters, Customer Relations, Counter offers, Job Interviews, Project Management, Sales, Trade shows, Stock Markets, Contracts and Agreements, Quality Control, Advertising, Leadership / Leaders, Ethical Investment, Empowerment, Cash flows, Insurance / Warranties and Basic Math (Numbers, Decimals, Fractions, Percentages).
• Work out Business language exercises / problems and comprehend relevant texts of Economic and Business English content.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive and working knowledge / notion of the language of Business and Economics as it is expressed and used in the (Global) Labour Market.
Suggested Bibliography in the Greek Language:
‘Achieve TOEIC’ A. Betsis, Betsis Publications
Suggested Bibliography in the English Language:
‘Cracking the TOEIC’ E. Rolins, Random House, London
Instructor's Notes
The students are also given Economic English texts for study and practice,
as well as graded language exercises for consolidation of vocabulary items
and grammar and syntax forms
