1. LINGUA INGLESE SCIENZE DELL’ORGANIZZAZIONE a.a. 2016/2017
Prof. Teresa Prudente

2. MATERIALS
TEXTBOOK
Handford, Lisboa, Koester, Pitt, Business Advantage, Student’s Book, Cambridge University Press,
REVISING/IMPROVING THE LANGUAGE
E-learning site: a course structured in 10 lessons, each revising grammar, lexicon, speaking and reading

3. METHODS
THEORY
Understanding key business principles and ideas in relation to English speaking environments
PRACTICE
Analysing case studies (texts and interviews) of real companies. This will allow us to apply the theories to the business world.
SKILLS
Discourse analysis (rethorical strategies, register, collocations, texture, etc…) will lead to awareness in your employment of business English (reading, writing, speaking)
Critical thinking
Intercultual analysis

4. Online tools for vocabulary (dictionaries & thesauruses)
General English: Business English:

5. collocations
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
High-frequency collocation with adverbs in the previous sentences:
- largely monopolised /little monopolised
- acted illegally/legally
- heavily regulated/ poorly regulated
- increasingly globalized /decreasingly globalized
- invested heavily /invested poorly

6. FIRST CASE STUDY
A highly competitive company: Saint-Gobain (book pp )