COURSE INTRODUCTION BUSINESS ENGLISH 2

FIRST YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER FULL-TIME STUDENTS 2011/12 FIRST YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER Lecturer: VIŠNJA KABALIN BORENIĆ Koprivnica office hours: Wednesday 11.45-12.15 Zagreb office hours: Thursday 12:00-14.00 Friday 10.00 – 12.00 Room: 20 Phone: 01/238 3204 E-mail: vkborenic@efzg.hr Info: www.efzg.hr/vkabalin & www.efzg.hr Notice board in the Department corridor

Student tutor: ŽELJKA LISEC zeljka.lisec@gmail.com - get help with your English regularly

TIMETABLE 2011/12 10 Wednesdays: 29 February to 2 May 8.30 – 10.00 10.15 – 11.45 12.15 – 13.30 Lessons last 90 minutes without breaks.

MEETINGS MEETINGS SCHEDULE – each group 15 min 14. 3. 8.30 a.m. Clerks  21. 3. 8.30 a.m. Transformers  28. 3. 8.30 a.m. Economists + 1.30 p.m. - 3 new teams 4. 4. 8.30 a.m. Outlaws 11. 4. 8.30 a.m. Sophomores 18. 4. 8.30 a.m. Officers 25. 4. 8.30 a.m. Industrialists 2. 5. 8.30 a.m. Legend: Bold = teams formed  = teams have received the assignment (instant agenda) Not bold = teams need to be confirmed More teams to be formed. All teams will receive instant agendas on 21 March. Organize groups for meetings. Prepare and send a form they have to fill in. Let groups choose a date of meeting on the list you send around. Meetings as held as of mid February. Each student from the group gets an individual grade. 5

PREPARE THE TOPIC OF THE MEETING, AGENDA, MINUTES AND ROLES (hand in the agenda and minutes on the day of the meeting) USE CLASS INPUT (RB 2) ON THE STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE OF MEETINGS REHEARSE YOUR ROLE ALONE AND WITH YOUR TEAM Even distribution of speaking time More on the subject of meetings in the next lesson.

Recommended literature: Longman Business English Dictionary Špiljak, V. ed. (2000) Englesko-hrvatski poslovni rječnik, Masmedia Murphy Grammar (students whose general English is weak pls see my student tutor) Suggested sources: Business Week, The Financial Times, The Economist … CNBC, Bloomberg, business programmes on BBC and CNN web sites: bized.com, investopedia.com, quickmba.com, startup.wsj.com, dictionary.com, harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu, encarta.msn.com, acronymfinder.com, uefap.com, , cusd.com/calonline/econ

IF READING IS DIFFICULT: read the text to understand it in Croatian retell the text in Croatian translate the whole text into Croatian sentence by sentence identify collocations, key business terms in each sentence find definitions for business terms make a list of collocations for each text you read do vocabulary tasks before or after the text

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