Курс делового английского
«Business Partner»
для работы и бизнеса

Бизнес-тематики

• Travelling for work
• Business location
• Retail
• Work patterns
• Money 
• Teamwork
• Research & Development
• Green solutions

Soft skills

• Small talk
• Checking and clarifying
• Solving workflow problems
• Making group decisions
• Negotiating team roles
• Supporting a colleague
• Giving explanations
• Giving and receiving feedback

Business skills

• Dealing with problems
• Starting a meeting
• Presenting results
• Phoning to change arrangements
• Presenting facts and figures
• Being positive in meetings
• Dealing with technical problems
• Managing questions

Бизнес-кейсы

• A business trip
• A new location
• Pop-up stores
• The Holsted way
• Local economy boost
• The amazing Chair Company
• Zapatos Trujilla A.S.
• Walsh Ryan’s green office

Деловое письмо

• Email-asking for information
• Short communications
• An online review form
• Confirming arrangements
• Letter about a price increase
• Making requests
• Preparing slides
• An intranet update

Коррекция произношения и интонации:

• The letter “r”
• Showing interest in small talk
• Syllables and stress
• Stress in noun phrases
• Past Simple
• Stress in short sentences
• Vowel sounds: British English and American English
• Present Perfect Simple
• Intonation in conditionals
• Numbers and figures
• Vowel sounds: [ɪ], [iː], [aɪ] and [ɪə]
• Linking between words
• Can and can’t
• Phrasing and pausing when giving instructions
• Vowel sounds: [ɜː], [ʊ],  [uː] and [əʊ]
• Should and could

Грамматика

• Comparatives and superlatives
• Can and could to ask for information
• Enough and too
• Present Continuous
• Past Simple and Past Continuous
• Types of adverbs
• Present Perfect Simple
• Prepositions of time
• First conditional
• Because, so, so that
• Pronouns with some- and every-
• Linking words for sequence
• Can, have to, need to
• Wh- questions
• Should and could for advice and suggestions
• Future forms

Темы практических заданий

• Practise explaining and solving an IT problem
• Write an email asking for information
• Opening a meeting
• Informal and formal messages
• A presentation
• An online review
• Roleplay a phone call to confirm an appointment
• An email to confirm arrangements
• Five a presentation on equal pay
• A letter explaining price increases
• Supporting, building on and questioning ideas in a meeting
• An email making a request
• Dealing with technical problems in an online meeting
• Slides for a presentation
• Roleplay a Q&A session
• Write an intranet update

Бизнес-тематики

• Career choices
• Business sectors
• Projects
• Global markets
• Design and innovation
• Safety and security
• Customer Service
• Communication

Soft skills

• Building rapport
• Dealing with interruptions
• Giving instructions
• Managing conversations
• Managing information
• Dealing with disagreement
• Responding to customer concerns
• Closing a deal

Business skills

• Networking
• Voicemail messages
• Meetings: updates and actions
• Building consensus
• Selling a product
• Dealing with conflict
• Generating and presenting ideas
• Talking about priorities

Бизнес-кейсы

• Global recruitment agency
• Investing your money
• The grand opening
• Market research and strategy
• Marketing mix and product discussion
• Visitor safety
• Problems in customer service
• Global communication

Деловое письмо

• Introducing yourself
• Action points
• Email requesting an update
• Letter confirming an order
• Product review
• Instructions and warnings
• External “thank you” email
• Short report

Деловое общение

• Word stress
• Voice range
• Stress in compound nouns and noun phrases
• Stress in phrases for turn talking
• Stress in derived words
• Weak forms in comparisons
• Pronunciation of -(e)s endings
• Consonant-vowel linking between words
• Numbers of syllables in words
• Contrastive stress
• Phrasing and pausing
• Stress in phrases
• Unstressed syllables at the end of a sentence
• Introducing a topic
• Conditional sentences
• Contractions in speech

Грамматика

• Advice and suggestions
• Adverbs of degree
• Past Simple and Past Continuous
• Will, going to
• Comparatives and superlatives
• (not) enough
• Present Simple and Past Simple passive
• Verbs + prepositions
• Present Perfect Simple with just, already and yet
• Order of adjectives before nouns
• Modal verbs of prohibition, obligation and no obligation
• Linking words for time
• Verb + to-infinitive or -ing
• Some (of), any, all (of), most (of), no, none (of)
• First and second conditional
• Past Perfect Simple

Темы практических заданий

• Building rapport during a short conversation
• Meeting a recruiter at a careers event
• Discussion during a meeting
• Leave a voicemail message
• Giving and responding to instructions
• An update meeting
• A conversation between a client and a supplier
• A discussion to reach agreement
• Getting feedback on presentation skills
• Present a product
• Convincing someone of your arguments
• Resolving a conflict
• Deal with customer complaints
• Generate and present ideas
• Trying to close a deal
• Prioritising

Business Partner B1

Cовременный учебник для изучения английского языка в бизнесе. Материал был разработан для учащихся, которые только стоят перед выбором карьерного пути, а также для работающих людей, для которых эффективное общение в международной рабочей среде имеет решающее значение.

Характеризуется инновационным подходом к развитию коммуникации. Благодаря партнерству со всемирно известными агентствами печати и информации, такими как Financial Times, BBC и ITN, курс студенты изучают аутентичный английский язык, применимый в области бизнеса. 

Бизнес-тематики:

• Job roles and responsibilities
• Brands
• Job Interview
• Business strategy, PEST analysis
• E-commerce & Logistics
• Entrepreneurship and start-ups
• Working abroad

Что сможет студент в части Soft skills:

• Managing First Meetings
• Supporting Teamwork
• Listening Actively
• Solving Problems
• Collaborating
• Influencing
• Decision-making
• Giving and Receiving FeedBack

Что сможет студент в части Business skills:

• Small talk in first meetings
• Making a presentation
• Interviews
• Problem-solving meetings
• Negotiating
• Presenting facts and figures
• Relationship-building
• Leading meetings

Бизнес-кейсы:

• Designing an office space
• Ideas for a promotional event and marketing campaign
• Passing a job interview
• Making choices about company strategy
• Supplier processes and the key terms and conditions of a deal
• Crowdfunding pitch
• Cross-cultural consultants
• Talent management

Что сможет ученик в части делового письма:

• Emails - Organising information
• Formal and semi-formal emails
• Covering letters
• Reporting reasons and results
• Letter of complaint
• Summarising
• Making recommendations
• Informing of a decision

Коррекция произношения и интонации:

• Word stress
• Stress in compound nouns and noun phrases
• Stress in derived words
• Voice range and intonation in indirect questions
• /i:/, /ɪ/, /eɪ/ and /aɪ/
• Intonation in ‘OK’
• Pausing and stress in presentations
• Auxiliary verbs in passives
• Consonant-vowel linking
• Intonation and discourse marking in presentations
• Phrasing and intonation in past sentences
• Strong or weak?
• Glottal stops
• Phrasing and intonation in relative clauses

Что сможет ученик в части грамматики:

• Future forms
• Present Simple and Continuous
• Connectors
• Verbs + -ing with infinitive
• Direct and indirect questions
• Past Simple and Present Perfect
• Modal verbs
• Comparison
• Passive forms
• Linking
• Reported speech
• Order of information in sentences
• Past tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect Simple
• First and second conditional
• Relative clauses
• Reduced relative clauses

Практические задания:

• Making introductions and contacts at an event
• Meet a visitor and manage small talk
• Asking for and giving advice
• Prepare and give a presentation
• The listening/distraction game
• Create a job and interview for it
• Offering and asking for help in work and social situations
• Take part in a problem-solving meeting
• A meeting to discuss controversial proposals
• Negotiate a new deal
• Influencing others to overcome objections
• A presentation to an investor
• Discuss preferences and reach agreement
• Meeting new people at an induction day
• Give and respond to developmental feedback
• Lead a mini-meeting

Бизнес-тематики:

• Corporate Culture
• Training and development
• Finance
• Being as profitable as the competitors
• Digital business
• A culture of rewards
• Ethics
• Time management
• Managing change

Что сможет студент в части Soft skills:

• Building relationships
• Team communication
• Managing bad news
• Handling difficult communicators
• Managing challenging feedback
• Transparency in business
• Dealing with urgency
• Coaching and mentoring

Что сможет студент в части Business skills:

• Presenting yourself
• Facilitating a meeting
• Telephoning to clarify
• Negotiating strategies
• Reviewing projects
• Sales and selling
• Dealing with difficulties in negotiations
• Brainstorming

Бизнес-кейсы:

• Keeping the workforce happy
• Quality service for all
• Investment opportunities
• Evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of technologies
• Changing expectations
• Company’s ethical issues
• Planning for a trade fair
• Takeover rumours and staff concerns

Что сможет ученик в части делового письма:

• A company news blog
• A training request
• Annual report summary
• Short business proposal
• Performance review summary
• Company newsletter
• An email giving reasons
• Press release

Коррекция произношения и интонации:

• Stress in compound nouns
• Auxiliary verbs in the Future Continuous and Future Perfect Simple
• Stressing key words in sentences
• Linking between words
• The letter “t”
• Strong and weak forms of that
• Stress in word building
• Stress in phrases
• Intonation and linking words
• Intonation when handling challenging feedback
• Contractions and weak forms in third conditionals
• Chunking, pausing and stress when reading aloud
• Stress in adverbials and time expressions
• Intonation when negotiating
• /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʧ/ and /ʤ/
• Voice range

Что сможет ученик в части грамматики:

• Future Perfect Continuous and Future Perfect Simple
• Phrases with be
• Modals in the Passive Voice
• Linking words for reason and purpose
• Expressing certainty and probability
• Position of adverbs and adverbial phrases
• Articles: a/an, the, no article
• Zero, first and second conditionals; Linkers
• Noun phrases to replace verb phrases
• Linking words and concessive phrases
• Phrasal verbs
• Third Conditional
• Linking words for causes and results
• Adverbials and time expressions
• Prepositions of time
• Reported speech and reporting verbs
• Passive voice with reporting verbs

Практические задания:

• Choosing a candidate
• Presenting yourself to international colleagues
• Organising a team-building event
• Facilitating a discussion to come to an agreement
• Balancing positives with negatives when giving bad news
• Making a call to clarify information in a financial document
• Managing a difficult meeting successfully
• Negotiating an agreement at work
• Responding to feedback
• A performance development workshop
• Voicing and responding to concerns with a colleague
• Promoting a product or service
• Following up on emails
• Dealing with difficult people at work
• The GROW model
• Brainstorming in small groups

Бизнес-тематики:

• Market research
• Mentoring
• Money matters
• Challenges
• Global mobility
• Alliances
• Risk
• Decisions

Что сможет студент в части Soft skills:

• Carrying out a needs analysis
• Changing an agreement
• Presentation styles
• Saying ‘no’ firmly and politely
• Giving feedback on performance
• Diffusing conflict
• Dealing with risk
• Influencing a decision

Что сможет студент в части Business skills:

• Dealing with questions
• Collaboration
• Defending your ideas
• Challenging conversations
• Presentations
• Learning from mistakes
• Analysing risk
• Maintaining relationships

Бизнес-кейсы:

• Improving the company image
• Participating in a meeting between an employee and a manager
• Selecting financial products to market to a specific group
• Business Challenges
• Discussing a possible relocation
• Growing the business
• Risk assessment
• Decision-making

Что сможет ученик в части делового письма:

• Reports - Summary findings
• Emails - Stating requirements
• Letter of complaint
• Proposals - Recommendations
• Blog post describing relocation
• Report extract
• Accident report
• Describing a decision

Коррекция произношения и интонации:

• Intonation in question tags
• Indian English pronunciation
• Intonation in cleft sentences
• Southern U.S. English pronunciation
• Stress in phrasal verbs
• Chunking and stress in presentations
• Weak forms in perfect tenses
• Volume and tone of voice in challenging conversations
• Stress and intonation in inversions
• Weak forms in past modals
• Scottish English pronunciation
• Linking between words
• Intonation in conditionals
• South African English pronunciation
• Stress and intonation in relationship-oriented decision-making

Что сможет ученик в части грамматики:

• Question tags
• Reporting verb patterns
• Cleft sentences
• Future Perfect Simple and Continuous
• Phrasal verbs
• Participle clauses
• Perfect aspect
• Compound nouns and adjectives
• Inversion
• Past Perfect Continuous
• Past Modals
• Different ways of expressing the future
• Second, third and mixed conditionals
• Alternatives to if
• To + infinitive or -ing form
• Ways to avoid repeating words

Практические задания:

• Agreeing details of a corporate event
• Propose a change and respond to questions
• Renegotiating details of a client agreement
• Leading and participating in meetings to agree on best ideas
• Giving a fact-based or emotion-based presentation
• Presenting a proposal and defending it
• Negotiating allocation of tasks with a colleague
• Dealing with a challenging conversation to reach a positive outcome
• Conducting performance reviews
• Presenting an argument for or against something
• Managing potential conflict between an event organiser and its sponsor
• Talking about a useful mistake you learnt from
• Discussing how to manage risks for an upcoming event
• Discussing travel risks and placing them on a matrix
• Making decisions about suppliers
• Managing difficult conversations using relationship-oriented decision -making

Бизнес-тематики

• Innovation
• Life cycle in business
• Finance and investment
• Disruptors
• Customer engagement
• The business of tourism
• Managing Conflict
• Mindset

Soft skills

• Pitching ideas
• Reformulating and clarifying
• Challenging facts politely
• Finding Solutions
• Presenting research data
• Business networking
• Giving support and guidance
• Handling a performance review

Business skills

• Engaging presentation
• Effective meetings
• Exploring options
• Reporting and planning
• Building relationships on trust
• Storytelling in presentations
• Mediating conflict
• Action learning

Бизнес-кейсы

• Innovative thinking
• Achieving a circular economy
• Financial strategy
• Disruption - planning ahead
• The art of persuasion
• Sustainable business travel
• International team conflict
• Encouraging personal growth

Деловое письмо

• Investment research
• Minutes of a meeting
• Budget report
• Supply chain services
• Advertising copy
• Email to a business partner
• Report on workplace conflict
• Self-assessment

Грамматика

• Articles: a/ an, the, no article
• Substitution of nouns and noun phrases
• Additional passive structures
• Ellipsis
• Expressing attitudes to the future
• Modal verbs: possibility
• Hypothesising
• Emphasis using inversion and fronting
• Participle clauses
• Groups of adjectives and gradable adjectives
• Review of past tenses and discourse markers
• If and alternatives
• Hedging and tentative language
• Prepositions and prepositional phrases
• Verb patterns

Темы практических заданий

• Opening and closing a presentation
• Putting forward problems and proposals in a meeting
• Negotiating time involvement on a project
• Interviewing for a change management consultancy role
• Using trust-building strategies to negotiate a good deal
• Telling a story about a life lesson
• Mediating between colleagues
• Solving a problem through action learning