COURSE INTRODUCTION
BUSINESS ENGLISH 2
FULL-TIME STUDENTS 2011/12
FIRST YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER
Lecturer: VIŠNJA KABALIN BORENIĆ
Koprivnica office hours: Wednesday 11.45-12.15
Zagreb office hours: Thursday 12:00-14.00
Friday 10.00 – 12.00
Room:
20
Phone:
01/238 3204
E-mail:
vkborenic@efzg.hr
Info: www.efzg.hr/vkabalin & www.efzg.hr
Notice board in the Department corridor
Student tutor: ŽELJKA LISEC
zeljka.lisec@gmail.com
- get help with your English regularly
TIMETABLE 2011/12
10 Wednesdays: 29 February to 2 May
8.30 – 10.00
10.15 – 11.45
12.15 – 13.30
MEETINGS
MEETINGS SCHEDULE – each group 15 min
14. 3. 8.30 a.m. Clerks
21. 3. 8.30 a.m. Transformers
28. 3. 8.30 a.m. Economists + 1.30 p.m. - 3 new teams
4. 4. 8.30 a.m. Outlaws
11. 4. 8.30 a.m. Sophomores
18. 4. 8.30 a.m. Officers
25. 4. 8.30 a.m. Industrialists
2. 5. 8.30 a.m.
Legend:
Bold = teams formed
= teams have received the assignment (instant agenda)
Not bold = teams need to be confirmed
More teams to be formed.
All teams will receive instant agendas on 21 March.
• PREPARE THE TOPIC OF THE MEETING,
AGENDA, MINUTES AND ROLES
(hand in the agenda and minutes on the day of
the meeting)
• USE CLASS INPUT (RB 2) ON THE
STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE OF
MEETINGS
• REHEARSE YOUR ROLE ALONE AND WITH
YOUR TEAM
• Even distribution of speaking time
Recommended literature:
Longman Business English Dictionary
Špiljak, V. ed. (2000) Englesko-hrvatski poslovni rječnik,
Masmedia
Murphy Grammar (students whose general English is
weak pls see my student tutor)
Suggested sources:
• Business Week, The Financial Times, The Economist …
• CNBC, Bloomberg, business programmes on BBC and
CNN
• web sites: bized.com, investopedia.com, quickmba.com,
startup.wsj.com, dictionary.com,
harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu,
encarta.msn.com, acronymfinder.com, uefap.com, ,
cusd.com/calonline/econ
IF READING IS DIFFICULT:
read the text to understand it in Croatian
retell the text in Croatian
translate the whole text into Croatian sentence by
sentence
identify collocations, key business terms in each
sentence
find definitions for business terms
make a list of collocations for each text you read
do vocabulary tasks before or after the text
THIS WEEK …
– MEETINGS
– Get RESOURCE BANK 2
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