English Applied to Business Sciences V

Students should have a B2 level of English (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Although there will be some moments in the classes with a focus on a theoretical approach to the syllabus, more active activities will be privileged, aiming not only a more global participation of the students but also the practice and development of the several necessary skills in a foreign language learning and consolidation process. Therefore, discussion moments, group tasks, and the use of digital platforms of interaction will be proposed as classroom activities.

Skills: this curricular unit aims to give students the ability to communicate in an intercultural context, making them aware of the existing cultural differences and, consequently, of the importance of these differences in the communication context.

Goals: to make students aware of cultural differences and of their influence in the communication context.

I. Business across cultures

1.1 Cultures and culture
1.2 Distance and familiarity
1.3 Names
1.4 Business cards
1.5 Dress
1.6 Entertainment and hospitality
1.7 Time
1.8 Cross-cultural communication

II. Grammar

2.1 Verb tenses (Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous)
2.2 Reported Speech
2.3 Phrasal verbs

Periodic Assessment

1) 1 group works with oral presentation (30% - 15% for the written component, and 15% for the oral component)

2) 2 Classroom assessed tasks (30% - 15% + 15%)

3) Written test (40%)

Note: Students may only give up to 6 unjustified absences to remain in the periodic assessment regime. Students with a special status must indicate it to the teacher within the first 3 weeks of the semester to define the attendance record/assessment regime

Final Assessment

1) Written exam (60%)

2) Oral (40%)

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