English Applied to Business Sciences II

Students should have a B1 level of English (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

 Given the nature of the aims and syllabus of this curricular unit, the teaching methodology chosen has the fundamental purpose of stimulating and optimizing students’ learning. Therefore, an active teaching methodology centered on students will be favored, such as through Problem based learning, Project based learning, Flipped classroom and Brainstorming. Carrying out work in class, individually and also in small groups, as well as the practice of debates/discussions in class, are pedagogical strategies that will also be used in classes.

In this curricular unit, students will contact with important types of concepts and instruments of the banking and finance areas, as well as of the marketing area. The main goal is to give students the necessary elements that will allow them to use the English Language as a privileged vehicle in the Commerce and International Relations areas. It is intended to conciliate technical and specific vocabulary and terminology of banking, finance, and marketing areas with a revision, practice, and consolidation of elementary and intermediate grammar structures.

I – Banking and Finance

1. Money
2. Banks
3. Operating an account
4. Credit and debit cards
5. Internet banking
6. Mortgages
7. International payments
8. National economies and international trade
9. Taxation

II – Marketing

1. Objective
2. The four Ps
3. Product life-cycle

III – Grammar

1. Verb tenses
2. Time and place (at, in, on)
3. If-clauses
4. Degree of the adjectives
5. Modal verbs

NAO

Bibliografia principal:

CARVALHO-OLIVEIRA, J. M. e Hélder Fanha Martins (2002). A Vocabulary of Business, Accounting and Finance. Vocabulário Técnico Português-Inglês-Português. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa.

GOUVEIA, Luís, Teresa Lameiras e Raquel Cardoso (2004, 2ª edição). Glossário de Contabilidade: Inglês-Português. ISCA Aveiro e ISCAC Coimbra.

MARKS, Jon (2012). Check Your English Vocabulary for Banking and Finance. Bloomsbury.

MASCULL, Bill (2017). Business Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bibliografia secundária:

DUBICKA, Iwonna et al. (2019). Business Partner. Essex: Pearson Education Limited. FT Publishing, Financial Times.

FRENDO, Evan, Sean Mahoney (2008), English for Accounting. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

FERRAINO, Cindy (2010). The Complete Dictionary of Accounting & Bookkeeping Terms Explained Simply. Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.

IRVINE, Mark and Marion Cadman (2003) Commercially Speaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

RADICE, Francis (1995). English for Banking. London: Macmillan.