UNIT |
TOPIC FOCUS |
LANGUAGE FOCUS |
TEACHING SKILLS FOCUS |
INTEGRATIVE TASKS |
1 |
Economic activity.
The stages of economic activity.
Types of economies. |
Some basic terminology in linguistics.
Some business-related vocabulary. |
Main approaches to TEFL in the 20th Century.
The Communicative Approach.
The needs of a Business English teacher. |
Writing a lesson plan for teaching the basic concepts of economic activity through the analysis of a case. |
2 |
Different types of companies.
The internal organisation of a company.
The organisation chart.
The influence of hierarchy on language register. |
Writing memos.
Editing paragraphs. |
Needs analysis. The language needs for different jobs.
Characteristics of a language teaching service.
Definition of the training gap for different learners. |
Profiling learners and determining their training gap. |
3 |
Personnel or Human Resources.
Job description.
Performance evaluations. |
Writing a letter of rejection
Recognising different registers. |
The client approach.
Course planning.
Establishing rapport with the learners.
Feedback and reports. |
Writing a course plan for a client, including the manner of evaluation. |
4 |
The process of production.
The factors of production.
Method and organisation of production.
Job satisfaction and efficiency. |
External communications: letters.
More business vocabulary. |
The syllabus: definitions.
Different types of syllabuses. |
Designing two syllabus units. |
5 |
Definition of Marketing.
The components of the marketing mix: Product, placement, packaging, price.
Advertising and promotion. |
Advertising materials.
Increase your business vocabulary. |
Identifying materials and resources.
How to exploit authentic materials
Planning. |
Designing activities to exploit authentic materials. |
6 |
The process of planning in business.
Identification of overall economic indicators used for planning.
SWOT analysis. |
External communications: personal letters on business matters.
More business vocabulary. |
Steps in lesson planning.
Writing a lesson plan. |
Writing a lesson plan, teaching the lesson and evaluating the results. |
7 |
Trading and trading documents.
Main functions of a bank.
Meetings and negotiations. |
Banking terminology.
Writing concisely.
External communications: letters of complaint. |
Strategic interaction. The design of role-play activities.
Teaching about meetings and negotiations. |
Designing, carrying out and evaluating a role-play activity. |
8 |
The Finance Department.
Main concepts in finance.
The Stock Exchange.
How money moves.
Presentations: practical tips. |
Expressing concepts through graphs.
Going from graphs to texts.
The language of presentations.
Finance vocabulary. |
Using graphs.
Teaching how to deliver presentations.
Evaluating presentations. |
Planning the presentation of a proposal for organising English courses at a company. |
9 |
Types of cultures.
Communication across cultures.
Creating awareness of diversity. |
Writing business reports. |
Reporting and giving feedback.
Testing. Basic characteristics of tests. Types of tests. |
Writing a test and analyzing it. |
10 |
Questions about the topics in Units 1 – 9 |
Business vocabulary practice. |
Troubleshooting and how you would carry it out. |
Examination practice. |
