Students will need a B1-level knowledge of English, with reference to the CEFR

By the end of this course, students should be able to prepare a Company Profile of an imaginary firm which includes the following:

Introduction

Name of the company, contact details etc.

Overview: vision and mission

Goals and objectives; modal verbs; the future for strategic objectives; present tenses for operational objectives. Past tenses for the story so far.

Products & Services: problems and solutions

Present tenses; conditional sentences; imperatives.

The Team

Adjectives and present tenses for describing people and their roles.

Call to Action

Imperatives; modal verbs for promises and consequences; conditional sentences

Company Profiles

Q&A: Giving & Obtaining Personal Information

The Alphabet / Email Symbols etc.

The Simple Present: Form & Use

Adverbs of Frequency

The Present Continuous: Form & Use

The Imperative

The Central Modal Verbs: Form & Use

Semi-Auxiliaries: Form & Use

The Conventional Order of Adjectives

Adjectives / Comparatives / Superlatives

The Simple Past: Form & Use

The Present Perfect: Form & Use

The Past Continuous: Form & Use

The Past Perfect: Form & Use

‘Used To’: Form & Use

Numbers / Prices / Dates / Fractions / Decimals

Talking about Quantities

Countable V Uncountable Nouns

The Passive: Form & Use

The Future

(C) Hughes, J. & Naunton, J., 2017, Business Result: Intermediate (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

NB: students must download the relevant PDF file for each lesson from the following website: http://docenti.unimc.it/martin.harper

Here, they will find glossaries, announcements, calendars, timetables and other useful information.

• Lessons

  Individual exercises and group-work

  Reading and listening comprehension

  Video-comprehension

  Webquests

• In groups of 3-5 people, students have to prepare and present a PowerPoint presentation of a Company Profile which includes (i) Introduction (name of the company, contact details etc.); (ii) Overview: Vision and Mission (goals and objectives; the story so far); (iii) Products and/or Services (in terms of problems and solutions); (iv) The Team (key staff and their roles); (v) Call to Action (promises and consequences).

  
  

  Every candidate should be able to explain how the company works, what it produces, the services it provides, the date of its foundation, the story of its development, its plans for the future, its telephone number, website and email address. Therefore, all candidates must know how to pronounce the alphabet in English, as well as dates, prices, numbers, times, countries, nationalities and languages.

  
  

  ORAL TEST - PowerPoint Presentation

   

  Criteria: 5 points=excellent; 4=good; 3=acceptable; 2=poor; 1=weak; 0=insufficient sample of language

   

  Pronunciation and fluency - 0-5 points - (16.5%)

  Content - 0-5 points - (16.5%)

  Grammatical accuracy - 0-5 points - (16.5%)

  Adequacy and range of terminology and lexis - 0-5 points - (16.5%)

  PowerPoint Presentation - 0-5 points - (16.5%)

  Communicative effectiveness- 0-5 points - (16.5%)

  
  

  NB. Candidates should send their PowerPoint presentations to the following email address one week before the exam: martin.harper@unimc.it

   

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