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EN32206 English for Business

Supplementary Subject Learning Area of Foreign Languages
Level M.5 Semester 2 40 periods: 1 credit

The learning area of this course covers the module of making meetings effective with decisive
structure, preparing the students for the academic part, with more technical terminology for admission
assessment examinations, GAT, IGCSE, and pursuance into higher education; or as an alternative, for more
career or business varieties. Besides academic learning, this course concentrates on realistic business
communication and presentation skills in all five English skills viz., listening, speaking, reading, writing and
thinking; as well as building confidence and fluency. It also exposes them to current global cultures and
pressing issues. Students will thus be curious and inquiring in creative knowledge together with caring and
principled understanding of actual world societies and communities, towards Innovative Education and New
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Normal Business of the 21 century.
The teaching procedures introduced in this course concentrate on language learning process;
lectures and tutorials; collaborative learning teams; student-led facilitation of topics; outline learning; videos,
games, role plays and lots of practice (which makes perfect); business meetings with decisive structure;
community involvement and field trips that will encourage and motivate students to develop themselves
to the maximum potentiality. Throughout the series, students should be able to use English for business
meeting skills in acquiring intelligence and happiness towards excellence, including the ability to choose
and use media and applications, update on present trends, and do soul searching on top of thinking and
problem-solving, in optimal wholesome and holistic sense – physical, intellectual, emotional and social.

The course also enables students to be of kind and moral character and zealous integrity, as smart
scholars, responsible citizens, keen sportsmen, as well as healthy and well-balanced earthlings.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Understand and employ the proper words / expressions / idioms / phrases in English for business
communication and presentation, working especially on pronunciation with implications of stress,
intonation, pausing and thought groups.
2. Focus on listening and speaking, concentrating on meaning and critical thinking to build confidence,
and develop and consolidate the target language for business presentation.
3. Transfer tasks with practice on target language in defined communication contexts relating to
immediate environment, home or studies to create a bridge between the classroom and world.
4. Integrate reading and writing tasks for comprehension, communication – not necessary to
understand every word; but to understand the main ideas, and stimulate thoughts and ideas.
5. Practise with modular structure to enhance business meetings with decisive structure, and
participation in class and group discussions, activities and projects for teamwork and collaboration.
6. Elicit ideas, impressions and opinions.
7. Make suggestions with own experience, however limited.
8. Prepare communication tasks for business meetings with decisive structure.

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