AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Department of Agribusiness
& Supply Chain Management
& Supply Chain Management
1: Business English Vocabulary Exercises (Accounting, Banking, Finance(s), Investing, Starting a Business / Business Plans, Stock Market / Trading Terms)
2: English for Accounting, Taxes / Tax-related Vocabulary, Loans, Banking / Finance Terms
Business English Vocabulary Exercises, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Economics)
3: Economic Theory, Glossary, 110 Business English Terms
4: Ten Business English Texts for Reading Comprehension Practice
5: Banking – Finance, Credit Facility, Unemployment (Economics), Utility (Economics)
6: Soft Skills – Human Resources, Company Vocabulary, Setting up a business in Greece
7: The world of work – Employment / Jobs Vocabulary and Phrases
8: Banking Terms, Banking and Finance - General Overview – Vocabulary and Terms, Commercial funding, Banking Vocabulary, Banking text, Money / Finance Vocabulary
Money – Text - The most expensive cities in the world
9: Human Resources Vocabulary and Phrases, Career – Text, Staff – Text, Human Resource (HR) Vocabulary, HR Vocabulary- The Same or Different?
10: Business English Communication (Part 1 – 1 - 11), Business English Communication, (Part 2 – 11A - 25), Business English Communication (Part 3 – 1 -10)
11: Business English Expressions and Collocations
12: Business English - Negotiations Vocabulary, About Negotiations, Negotiating in English
Aspects of Negotiations, Marketing – Problem solving activities / Multiple Choice Test Items / Economic Terms
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, Elements of Economic Theory, GDP, Unemployment) in English.
• To teach the students basic terms and concepts of Business English (Founding / Starting a Business / Startups, Trade terms, Tax-related lexical terms, Loans, Commercial Funding, Money / Finances, Careers, Human Resources (HR), Corporate terms / language, Soft Skills, Problem-solving activities / skills, Employment, Staff, and General Business Communication).
• 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:
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 texts Economics English for study and practice, as well as graded language exercises for consolidation of vocabulary items and grammar and syntax forms.