Advanced Language Usage For Business

Sessions 1, 2, 3 and 4
Unit 1.   Types of companies.
 Business letters
 Lexicon of the business world
 Language of the professionals
 Types of companies
 Culture shocks in business
 USA: economic resources and business culture

Sessions 3,  4 and 5 
Unit 2.  Creation of companies.
 Interpretation of graphs and kinds of graph
 Organigrams
 Departments in and functions of a company
 Steps required in setting up a company
 Protocol for doing business in Spain
 Spain: economic resources and business culture

Sessions 6, 7 and 8
Unit 3.  Work contracts.
 Letters of recommendation
 Lexicon of the world of work: the payroll
 Advertising of jobs and candidate profile
 Types of contract
 Listening: trade unions
 Work situations and queries
 Mexico: economic resources and protocol for doing business

Sessions  9, 10 and 11
Unit 4.   The world of work.
 Currículum vitae and letters applying for a job
 Lexicon of the world of work: positions and jobs
 Expressions related to the world of work
 Listening: A job interview
 Inter-cultural assessment
 Venezuela: economic resources and protocol for doing business

Sessions 12, 13 and 14
Unit 5.  Trade.
 Business letters I
 International business terms
 Lexicon of trade and its components
 International trade fairs in Spain
 Listening: participating in a trade fair
 Culture shocks and non verbal language
 Brazil: economic resources and protocol for doing business
Sessions 15 and 16
Unit 6.  Advertising and sales.
 Business letters II
 Lexicon: franchises
 Analysis of sales and costs
 Marketing and its components
 Listening: a radio spot
 Areas and situations
 Colombia: economic resources and protocol for doing business.  

Sessions 17 and 18
Unit 7.               Banking
 Bank documents
 Lexicon related to banking
 The mortgage
 Savings banks
 Listening: on television
 How to make a complaint and know the world of banking in Spain and Europe
 Argentina: economic resources and protocol for doing business.  

CORRECTING MISTAKES:
Grammatical concepts will be dealt with by the correction of written and oral fluency mistakes.
Written tasks will be corrected using the following notes and symbols; each student is to correct his/her own work, depending on the kind of mistake made. Once the corrections have been made, the whole task is to be typed out on a computer and corrected on a date set before the partial and final exams:
1. C.G.: Gender agreement.
2. C.N: Number agreement.
3. T.V.: Verb correspondence; the verb has not been correctly conjugated or the tense does not correspond to the sentence construction.
4. O.T.: Wrong preposition.
5. B.D.: Look it up in the dictionary. Wrong word, wrong usage or incorrectly spelt.
6.                  Mistake with accents.