319003 English for Students of Business and Economics (Ü) (SoSe 2009)

Duration of Course
15 weeks, 2 hours p.w., the course concentrates on economic topics, covering a wide variety of specialist vocabulary, using authentic texts, podcasts and video clips.
The course also prepares for the TOEIC test

Teaching Format
Teaching time will be divided; half the time will be spent using materials from the course book “New Edition Market Leader “. The remainder of classroom time will be used for discussions of business topics and exercises in preparation of the TOEIC test
Grammar exercises will be used occasionally to review major grammar topics. There will be regular short oral presentation of “daily news” focusing on global business.
There will be weekly homework assignments and a recommendation of links to suitable self-study programmes.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen, notwendige Vorkenntnisse

B1( Common European Framework of Reference for Language= CEFR)

WiWi-Studierenden (im Kernfach), die bisher noch keinen Englischkurs belegt haben, wird vorrangig eine Teilnahme ermöglicht.

Literaturangaben

Course-books used:
New Edition Market Leader, Intermediate, David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent ISBN 978-0-582-83809-3
Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar in Use
ISBN 3-125-34806-1

Business Spotlight Magazine- http://www.business-spotlight.de

Other online materials used:
BBC learning English.com, FT podcasts
Spiegel online, English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4