1. COURSE INTRODUCTION
BUSINESS ENGLISH 2

2. FIRST YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER
FULL-TIME STUDENTS 2011/12
FIRST YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER
Lecturer: VIŠNJA KABALIN BORENIĆ
Koprivnica office hours: Wednesday
Zagreb office hours: Thursday 12:
Friday – 12.00
Room:
Phone: /
Info: &
Notice board in the Department corridor

3. Student tutor: ŽELJKA LISEC
- get help with your English regularly

4. 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.

5. MEETINGS MEETINGS SCHEDULE – each group 15 min
a.m. Clerks 
a.m. Transformers 
a.m. Economists  p.m. - 3 new teams
a.m. Outlaws
a.m. Sophomores
a.m. Officers
a.m. Industrialists
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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. THIS WEEK …
MEETINGS
Get RESOURCE BANK 2