Course details

Practical conversation, presenting and business communication in English

PKA Acad. year 2025/2026 Winter semester 3 credits

Current academic year

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit

Time span

  • 26 hrs exercises

Assessment points

  • 100 pts numeric exercises

Department

Instructor

Study literature

  • Cambridge First Certificate in English for Updated Exam - Student's Book without answers. Official Examination Papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.
  • Tom Kenny: Nice Talking with You. Step-by-step English fluency. Cambridge University Press.
  • English conversation-Practice Makes Perfect Series-McGraw-Hill Education; 1st edition (August 7, 2012).
  • Practical English Usage (4th Edition) Book. Oxford University Press.
  • Kenna Bourke: Test It, Fix It Vocabulary Intermediate.

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  • Start talking in foreign language, mainly acquire positive approach towards your progress in English
  • Address communicative barriers, habits and mistakes
  • Jargon dialects and mistakes
  • Listening and ability to understand and react
  • Vocabulary in use
  • Finding your own communication style
  • Ability to express your emotions and needs
  • Ability to deal with conflict in English language
  • Acknowledgement of your own bad habits in English conversation
  • Presentation structure in English
  • Self-made presentation and its analysis
  • Business communication and negotiations in English
  • Revealing and defining your week points while presenting a presentation and having business communication in English subsequently addressing those week points and work on them
  • Widening and training specialized vocabulary

 

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