1. Welcome to Business English 1!

3. Business English I (2016/17) Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić Group: 1_3_GRU-KAR
Lecture:
Mon – lecture, hall 06
Seminars:
Tue – (3_1 Gru-Jab) LH 22
Tue – (3_2 Jac-Kar) LH 02

4. Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić e-mail: vkborenic@efzg.hr + web site
Tries too hard to involve all students!
Anonymous
Student survey 2012
Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić + web site
Make name tags and always bring them to class!
Please, provide the following information:
1. Your name
2. High school (name & type)
3. How long you have learned English
4. Additional English classes & where
TURN OVER

5. 1. Do you know any business English?
Please, answer these questions (Don’t copy the Q’s!):
1. Do you know any business English?
2. What do you expect from Business English I course?
3. Why have you enrolled on this Faculty?
4. What are your career goals?

6. Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić e-mail: vkborenic@efzg. hr + www. efzg
Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić
Konzultacije?
Office hours: Mon _______________
Tue _______________
Katedra za poslovne strane jezike, kabinet ____
Department of Business Foreign Languages, room ___
Head of Department: ?
Dept. secretary: ?
Student tutor: ?

7. Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić e-mail: vkborenic@efzg. hr + web: www
Teacher: Višnja Kabalin Borenić web:
Office hours: Mon 15:30 – 16:30 ( )
Tue 10:00 – 11:00 ( )
Department of Business Foreign Languages, room 16
Head of Department: Alka Štampalija
Dept. secretary: Ivanka Dvoržak (shares X-card office)
Student tutor: Josip Halužan
Contact:
Hours: TBA

8. Academic terms (group work + volunteers)
Srednja škola?
University degrees:
Students:
Courses:
Faculty (Teaching staff):
Exams:
Papers:

9. Academic terms (grammar / comprehensive / secondary school gymnasium)
Degrees: Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctor’s
Students: - undergraduate or graduate, first-year
part-time or full-time - a major
Faculty: professors, lecturers, assistants
Courses: teach – taught - taught
compulsory, mandatory vs. elective, optional
take a course in, read, enroll on, attend, participate in… learn – learnt - learnt
Exams: - final, written, oral, mid-term, quiz
sign up for an exam, apply for, take, pass, fail
Papers: - write a paper on monetary policy, submit a paper, hand in a paper, grade a paper

10. University Essentials (RB, pp 6-11)
PAIRWORK: Handout (RB, pp 6-7)
HW: RB pp. 8, 9
Say this in English:
1. Studiram ekonomiju / poslovnu ekonomiju.
2. Ovaj semestar slušam Poslovni engleski I, Osnove ekonomije, …
3. I redovni i izvanredni studenti bi trebali pohađati predavanja, a naročito seminare.
4. Ako prođem kolokvije neću morati polagati završni ispit.
Exams?

11. INTRODUCTION Business English I
Information for Students
(on my website, Resource Bank 1 and Google classroom)

12. GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Join my Google classroom Poslovni engleski 1 using your official faculty account: Unique class code: lpf2ux Helpful video tutorials on getting started: Download: Resource Bank 1 (PDF) from the ABOUT section

13. Textbooks MacKenzie, I. (2009) English for Business Studies
3rd edition, CUP
Resource Bank I 2016/17
(get a PDF file from me today,
download it from my Google classroom
OR get a bound photocopy wherever)

14. Course aims develop business communication skills (written and oral)
acquire specialist vocabulary (on selected business topics)
encourage critical thinking (analysis, synthesis, foreseeing, deducing, selecting)
understand styles: the difference between written/spoken language and formal/informal language
learn to use dictionaries, other reference material

15. Course contents* Topics: Basics: - economics vs. economy
types of economies
economic sectors
Public & Private Sector (+ role of the state, taxation, privatisation) (+ entrepreneurship, types of businesses)
Company Structure & Management
(+ work & motivation, labour relations, recruitment)
Marketing (+ advertising, market research, brands...)
* SEE: Resource Bank, introductory pages (Course contents, RB contents)

16. Course contents (cont.)
Business communication skills:
Note-taking & note-making
Presenting
Paragraphing
Business correspondence
Employers and Public Favor Graduates Who Can Communicate, Survey Finds
Dan Berrett The Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 Sep 2013

17. American adults and employers want colleges to produce graduates who can think critically and creatively, and can communicate orally and in writing.
“In a world where young people communicate by text messages, new employees must LEARN the skills that will help them make a sales pitch or a presentation to a board.”
Marcy L. Reed
Massachusetts president of National Grid
(a gas and electric utility)

18. Course requirements: 1 attendance and class participation
2 passing progress tests (2 + BC + presentation)
3 final oral exam or
attendance and class participation
passing a comprehensive exam
final oral exam

19. Tentative progress test dates
1st progress test: mid Nov 2015
2nd progress test: mid Jan 2016
presentations: Nov - Dec 2015 (seminars)
oral exam – from mid Jan 2016
Precise dates to be announced (TBA) timely.
More info on test (types of exercises...) later.

20. Important!!!
If you fail the first progress test, you can still take the second test, but the total score in both tests must be higher than 60% .

21. See you tomorrow (08.30 or 14:00)! Bring RB & do your HW (RB, pp 8,9)
1 ECTS = 30 working hours
5 ECTS = 150 working hours
Simple math:
15 weeks x 4 hours in class: hrs
15 weeks x ? hours studying: hrs
150 hrs
150 hrs over 4 months? 1 hour a day