Nummer60031LeitungPieter PerrettECTS3.0StandardbezugThis module concentrates on the English students will need in their business lives. It highlights the language skills and functions in common to Business English. The emphasis is on applied language: the communicative, linguistic and lexical skills busineZielsetzungThe student can:
- function on the telephone in a professional manner
- formulate and respond professionally, in the proper register, to business correspondence
- formulate an appropriate and concise summary of a technical presentation in one's field
- discuss a technical article or report in one's fieldInhalt1. Telephoning: telephoning language in a WING setting and all it entails.
2. Reading and Summarising: Texts will be from the Business Process Management and e-business area, discussion of texts (linguistic focus: Questions and Answers); summarising will be written and oral, students will learn how to write a professional abstract in English
3. Business Correspondence 2: Develop the skills achieved in Business Correspondence 1 with emphasis on report writing, language of meetings and negotiating language.
4. Doing Business 2: Business small talk, functionally-expressed situations and the language they entail.Prüfungsleistungwritten and oral examination 
