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Lecturer(s)
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Zikešová Šárka, Mgr.
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Bourová Ilona, Mgr.
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Course content
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Business meetings: meeting clients, introductions, communicating programmes for foreign visitors, accepting and refusing invitations. Everyday business: workplace communication, company organizational structure, departments, job description, working hours. Phone communication: making an appointment, postponing or cancelling an appointment, leaving a message. Order processing. Bank transactions, payment transactions. Active participation in the e-course EKNEF. Written exam (speaking about determined subjects practiced during the both semesters). Standardized final language exam which consists of the written part and which also reflects the specific command of language relevant to the student´s professional needs.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
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Learning outcomes
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Seminar is offered in tutorials by appointment. The course is designed to develop existing language skills in job-related contexts. An essential part of the course is using texts related to economic patterns. Learners extend their knowledge of sorting and using current information and improve their skill in the target language. The expected entry level is B1 according to the Council of Europe Common Framework. Learners are expected to have the skill of collecting and processing information. The target level is B1+ in German for Specific Purposes according to CEFR.
Students who successfully complete the course can: Introduce themselves in a new foreign language environment, structure and explain a study visit programme, express and invitation to an event; Describe a company structure, company business and their role in the company; Make appointments; Place orders; Prepare applications in the banking sector and deal with banking transactions. Students who successfully complete the course can use the relevant language subskills on B1+ level CEFR with the aim to: Understand the meaning and main points of events and information concerning their personal or professional field of interest; Understand everyday job-related texts; Express their opinion about the common professional issues; Write a simple coherent text relating to their personal and professional field of interest. Students who successfully complete the course: Are informed about the basic communication situations of a foreign language context; Can transfer general information in the spoken and written form; Understand the relevant texts and spoken utterance in the standard language form.
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Prerequisites
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- for non-native speakers The expected entry level is B1 according to the Council of Europe Common Framework. Learners are expected to have the skill of collecting and processing information. The target level is B1+ in German for specific purposes according to CEFR.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Didactic test
Subject completion requirements in case of a distance teaching mode: Based on the teacher´s requirements, the student participates in online lessons according to the schedule and completes the assigned tasks via the online systems Moodle / MS Teams. The final testing will be carried out by means of standardised testing materials and focused on identifying the level of the student´s language competence.
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Recommended literature
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Berglová, Eva; Formánková, Eva; Mašek, Miroslav. Moderní gramatika němčiny. Plzeň: Fraus, 2002.
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Guenat, G., Hartmann, P. Deutsch für das Berufsleben - B1. Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch. Ernst Klett Sprachen, 2010. ISBN 978-3-12-675725-6.
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Herring, A., Matussek, M. Geschäftskommunikation. Schreiben und Telefonieren.. Hueber Verlag: Ismaning, 1996.
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Maenner,D., Schote, J., Weimann, G. Fokus Deutsch, Erfolgreich in Alltag und Beruf, Brückenkurs (B1+), Kurs- und Übungsbuch. Berlin: Cornelsen, 2023.
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