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Syllabus | EN 2212: Advanced Business English I

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1) Business Meetings 1 (10/5 hrs) Identify the importance of meeting Discuss different types of meetings. : informal, formal, large group, a meeting of four to five of the people involved, One to one meeting

Types of Activities :

Look at the problem and decide what kind of meeting is the best way of dealing with each one. Eg: The board required a report on your department’s long term plans over the next 10 years. There is to be a company picnic next month and everything has to be planned and organized. You are a participant of the meetings discussed above. What would you say to express your point of view, make objections, ask for opinion to end a meeting. 2) Writing reports and summaries (10/5 hrs) Reports Criteria for writing reports

Organization
Development
Style

Types of Reports

Trip Report
Progress Report
Lab Report
Feasibility / Recommendation Reports
Incident Reports Investigative reports
Meeting – Minutes

Process

Pre writing
Writing
Re writing

3) The Summary (10/5 hrs) Criteria for writing summaries

Overall Organization
Internal Organization
Development
Style
Length
Audience Recognition
Grammar and Mechanisms

Process

Prewriting
Writing
Re-writing

Activities:

Eg: Listen to a conversation recording of a meeting between two people. Answer questions based on it. After Understanding the conversation draft a summary. 4) Advertisements and commercials (10/5 hrs)

Cut out your favorite advertisement from a news paper . Prepare a short presentation covering the following points. (Target customers, how it works in terms of promoting the product attracting attention , arousing interests, creating a desire, encourage to take prompt action.)
Describe favourite TV commercials to your partner. Say why you think they are effective,

5) Selling and buying product (10/5 hrs) Simulation You in the buying department of your company. Decide in what terms, price, condition etc you are prepared to buy a product, make notes, negotiate with the seller. You are the chief buyer for a company. Find one from a salesman the following. About a product : wholesale price, recommended retail price, how quickly the goods can be shipped, how each item is packed, where the product is manufactured. Procedure: Look at the new words in a dictionary. Practice the necessary expressions. Write the necessary notes before enacting the situation. 6) Travelling on business (10/5 hrs)

Making reservations – flights and at a restaurant. Speak over the phone. Send a fax
Meeting or being met : role play eg: a foreign business person arriving at the local airport and the other person is waiting to welcome him. Role play the whole scene up to leaving the airport.
Write a list of advice which might be given to foreign visitor.

Tell a visitor about office routines in our country: working hours , holidays, relationships between the boss and employees , recreational and sport facilities for staff officers.

Eg 1 : Make a telephone call to colleague in another department , inquiring whether you can bring the visitor to see him or her. Eg 02: Write a memo asking your boss to give the visitor a brief explanation of your firm’s activities. Eg 03: Draft a fax to the visitor informing the date abd the time you propose for the visitor / or phone her / him. 7) Practical Component ( Assignment)

Design a questionnaire to be used to interview persons in a company / hotel.
Collect information about their work, daily routine etc.
Present your findings to your colleagues and organize the information and write a report.