Base Knowledge
Students should have a B1 level of English (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Teaching Methodologies
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.
Learning Results
Skills: with this curricular unit, it is intended that students continue the development of communication in professional context skills. Since some of the tasks that a Secretariat professional needs to perform include the preparation and undertaking of presentations, students will do exercises and activities with the goal of developing these skills.
Goals: developing the students’ communication in professional context skills, namely preparing them to be able to elaborate efficient presentations.
Program
I – Presentations
1. Presentation technique and preparation
2. The audience
3. Structure: the introduction, the main body, the end
4. Image, impact, and making an impression
5. Using visual aids
6. Holding the audience’s attention
7. Listing information, linking ideas, sequencing
8. Summarising and concluding
9. Questions and discussion
II – Grammar
1. Verb tenses (Simple Future, Future Continuous)
2. Relative clauses
3. Quantifiers
4. Articles
Curricular Unit Teachers
Grading Methods
- - Final Work - 20.0%
- - Test - 40.0%
- - Test - 40.0%
- - Exame - 100.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
MACRAE, Paul (2014) Business and Professional Writing – A Basic Guide. Peterborough: Broadview Press
SWEENEY, Simon (2003) English for Business Communication. Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University
Press
TALBOT, Fiona (2016) How to Write Effective Business English. S.l.: Kogan Page Publishers.
VINCE, Michael (2003) Advanced English Practice: English Grammar and Vocabulary. Macmillan.