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Business English Certificate ( BEC )
This course is designed to provide you with the business English skills you need for your career. It can also provide an excellent preparation for MBA studies. It focuses on English for meetings, presentations and negotiations, as well as on giving you the skills to communicate well in less formal business and social situations.
You can also expect to develop your reading and listening skills and improve your written English in a business context – including handling reports and drafting emails.
Course Content:
- presenting your own career, company organisation (where appropriate) and current management issues
- aspects of a company's business, e.g. products, services, marketing, finance
- simulated business meetings and negotiations
- simulated business telephone calls
- presenting facts and figures, graphs and describing economic and social trends
- comparing working habits and cross-cultural issues
- recruitment practice and procedures
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| Modules: |
Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking |
| Levels: |
Level 1 - BEC Preliminary B1
Level 2 - BEC Vantage B2
Level 3 - BEC Higher C1 |
| Exam Body: |
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations |
| Entry Requirement: |
aged over 18; English placement test is given before the start of the course. |
| Starting Date: |
January, April, July and September |
| Course Fee: |
Business English Certificate (BEC) |
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When business people are speaking with clients and contacts, discussion often turns to broader matters. The course reflects this by providing practice in a range of topical issues such as:
- current affairs
- environmental and social questions
- political issues
- education and training
- advertising and the media
- technology and the impact of computerisation
We give participants greater confidence in taking part in and chairing business meetings and negotiations. Therefore we would cover appropriate communication strategies such as:
- agreeing and disagreeing
- interrupting
- clarifying and confirming
- asking for comments
- summarising
- asking appropriate questions
- challenging/defending an opinion
- persuading and compromising
- making proposals, offers, suggestions
- opening/closing meetings
Professional hospitality, entertaining visitors and handling social situations are important for many business people, as is confident when using the telephone. Areas covered would therefore include:
- meeting and greeting
- receiving visitors
- socialising
- using the telephone effectively
- practice in communicating more complex ideas and discussing problems
Optional add-on English lessons:
The Business English course can be taken as a stand-alone course or combined with the General English program during or prior to the start of the course.
Course Focus:
- Monday to Friday (15 hours per week) 9.00am – 12.00pm or 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Personal tutorial available
- End of course certificate
- Students’ age ranges between 16 to 45
- Maximum size of the group: 16 students
- Length of the course: 12 weeks for each level
- Course materials included for full-time students
- Part-time students will be required to pay for study material between £17 and £20
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