Advanced Business English
PROF. LAURA BELLONI
COURSE AIMS
The course (half year, 5 hours per week, 8 CFU) sets out to further develop the
student’s communication skills in the various segments of English for business
communication, empowering their grammatical, lexical, textual and cultural
abilities.
COURSE CONTENT
Special emphasis will be placed on the reception of written English (newspapers,
magazines, essays) in the context of English for Business Communication as a
source of ideas for written and oral production. In addition, some of the
communicative situations characteristic of English Business Communication will
provide the basis for reflection and language practice aimed at strengthening the
student’s communicative skills and proficiency. The course aims to promote the
ability of reception and output, offering activities for listening, comprehension
and written and oral production.
READING LIST
Compulsory texts
T. TRAPPE-G. TULLIS, Intelligent Business Coursebook. Upper Intermediate Business English,
Longman (latest ed.).
L. PILE, Intelligent Business Workbook. Upper Intermediate Business English, Longman (latst ed.).
E. REGGIANI, In the (salmon) pink 4. L’Inglese per la comunicazione economica sulle pagine del
Financial Times: scorci del Commonwealth, EDUCatt, Milano, 2009.
Suggested reading
L. PILE-S. LOWE, Intelligent Business Teacher’s Book. Upper Intermediate Business English,
Longman, latest ed.
C. JOHNSON-I. BARRALL, Intelligent Business Skills Book: Upper Intermediate Business English (with
CD-Rom), Longman latest ed.
LONGMAN, Business English Dictionary, Longman, Harlow, latest ed.
F. PICCHI, L’Inglese dell’Economia. Dizionario Economico e Commerciale Inglese-Italiano,
Italiano-Inglese, Zanichelli, Bologna, latest ed.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures with the use of multimedia aids.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Oral exam on the reading, translation and commentary in English of all the contents of
the compulsory texts.
NOTES
The programme published here is subject to change should any particular didactic needs
arise, in which case any such changes will be published online through the coordinator’s
Blackboard course page, which all students must visit regularly in its entirety and learn its
contents.
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.