Business English Oral Communication II.

1. This will be a course in practical, communicative Business English focusing on developing your skills of speaking and active listening in business tasks including personal introductions, describing companies, their activities, layout and history, future plans, preferences and entertaining. You will study up to twelve units from the number one best-selling business English textbook Business Venture 1. The class aim is for students to conceptualize business communication scenarios and achieve strategic competency in basic business English. . Acquisition of Business English vocabulary is a vital and integral part of each student's learning path.

2. Students will be expected to prepare for class in their own time and use a dictionary during homework to ensure their comprehension of the target vocabulary. Students must participate wholeheartedly in the class activities, mostly preparatory listening exercises, pair work dialogues and small group communication activities. Students can expect to improve their fluency, pronunciation, listening skills and confidence.

3. I recommend English Conversation and listening electives as useful additional courses.

4. Assessment will be continuous and based upon class performance and regular in-class English conversation tests. Testing will be regular and conducted unit by unit, some later tests will combine two units. Some will be paper tests others will be oral dialogues. There is no final examination. Students may not miss more than three classes per semester without special and teacher approved cause. Three times tardy will be considered as one time absent.

5. I will try my best to make these classes interesting for you, but ultimately they have a serious purpose. They are large and they begin promptly. They require student cooperation and preparation. Tardiness, disorganization and laziness will adversely affect your performance and that of your classmates. Please don't be a saboteur.

6. The core text will be Business Venture 1 New Edition , by Roger Barnard and Jeff Cady. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-457238-2. (The best selling business English textbook.)

Curriculum Plan.

This course is intended to help students develop fluency in basic English for specific business situations. Students are encouraged to read the text, practice the dialogues and prepare work out of class in order to make full use of the conversation practice time. Task-based testing will assess students' ability to use the target language effectively.

Topic	Outcomes	Classes	Homework Guide
Unit 1. Greetings Inroductions. Personal Information. Control English.	Orientation to course. Students develop their business identity and practice making introductions and questioning. Practice using numbers 1-10.	1 and 2	Practice the First and Second listening tape scripts on p.84. Do Culture File parts 1 and 3. Prepare for dialogue test.
Unit 2. Inroductions. Personal Information. Job descriptions and company activities.	Students describe jobs and company activities in present simple tense.Using numbers from 11-100.	3 and 4	Practice tape scripts 1, 3 and 6 on p.84. Prepare Culture File parts 1 and 3 and 4. Prepare for dialogue test.
Unit 3. Meeting business clients. Inroducing people. Guiding visitors. Locations.	Students practice meeting business clients. Inroducing people. Guiding visitors by describing locations in the office. Address formating. Using numbers from101-1000.	5 and 6	Practice tape scripts 1, 3 and 6 on p.85. Read and consider Culture File parts 1 A,B and C and prepare answers for part 2. Prepare for dialogue test.
Unit 4. Business Activities. Describing processes and routines. Work and leisure.	Students practice describing business processes and routines using sequencers and adverbs of frequency. Telling the time. Using numbers from1001 -10,000.	7 and 8	Practice tape scripts 1,2 4 and 5 on p.86. Read and consider Culture File parts 1 A,B and C and prepare answers for part 2. Prepare for dialogue test.
Unit 5. Calling a receptionist to fix an appointment. Arranging a meeting time. Suggesting another time.	Students practice calling a receptionist to fix an appointment. Arranging a meeting time. Suggesting another time. Using dates and years.	9 and 10	Practice tape scripts for first listening, dialogues one and two on pp.86-87, and second listening dialogues one, two and 3 on p.87. Read, consider and prepare answers for Culture File parts 1 and 3. Prepare for dialogue test.
Unit 6. Requesting and offering. Placing and taking orders by telephone. Making requests and offers. Verifying information.	Students practice placing,, taking and verifying orders by telephone. Focus on modals would and could. Practice confirming understanding and verifying information. Using decimal numbers to describe currency exchange rates.	11 and 12	Practice tape scripts for first listening, dialogues one, two and four on p.88, and second listening dialogues one, two and 3 on p.88. Read, consider and prepare answers for part Culture File parts 1 and 2. Prepare for dialogue test.

The second semester schedule depends upon our progress in the first, but we expect to cover units 7 to 12.