Prerequisite

• Please note that you must have finished the course "Business English I" before registering for "Business English II".

Topics

• Banking/Referencing
• Stocks and bonds/Presentations/Peer Feedback
• Venture capital/Prepositions
• Accounting and financial statements/Linkers
• Market structure, competition and takeovers /Business trends
• Government and taxation/Graph descriptions
• The business cycle/Phrasal verbs
• Corporate social responsibility/Gerund and infinitive
• Exchange rates/Business reports
• International trade/Business proposals
• Women in business

Methods

• Classes are largely interactive and involve a wide range of activities: lectures, small-group work, team presentations with individual written feedback, peer feedback, discussions, listening comprehensions, vocabulary development and reinforcement of grammatical structures, role plays and case studies.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• read and understand upper-intermediate Business English texts..
• understand and apply business English vocabulary and terminology from the fields of management, company finance, financial markets, international trade, CSR, taxation, economic policy
• translate those terms into German and vice versa
• participate in discussions on those fields
• produce communicatively effective written business texts (graph descriptions; business reports and proposals)
• give presentations in teams
• give peer feedback

Literature

• Emmerson, Paul (2009): Business Vocabulary Builder. Macmillan Education.
• Emmerson, Paul (2010): Business Grammar Builder. Macmillan Education.
• MacKenzie, Ian (2010): English for Business Studies. Cambridge University Press.
• Additional material will be provided during the lectures.