Università Roma Tre

The course (60 hours) aims at offering the students the possibility to study the vocabulary of the English language related to their studies. The vocabulary presented and analyzed will therefore belong to the world of business and business communication. The course will allow the students to revise many topics of English grammar and syntax and will permit them to eliminate common errors of written and spoken English.
The students will learn to describe charts and tables with statistical data on business topics. They will also learn to write formal and informal work emails, to write a cover letter and to structure a curriculum vitae in English.

Knowledge and competences acquired:

Through reading comprehensions, exercises and case studies the lessons will cover the following topics:
• Management Systems
• The Future of Management
• Marketing
• Decision-making
• Increasing productivity
• Financial issues
• Job satisfaction
• The impact of IT
• Cultural Factors
• Communication
• Motivation
• Ethics

During the course there will be classes dedicated to the following grammar topics:

• Present Simple and Present Continuous
• Past Simple and Past Continuous
• Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
• Past Perfect
• The Future
• Modal Verbs
• If clauses
• Passive voice
• Reported Speech
• The definite article "The"
• Relative clauses
• Linking words and phrases

• A module will be about email writing, presentation letters (cover letters) and the layout of a curriculum vitae (resume).

Testi d’esame
1. Tutto il materiale didattico è disponibile sulla pagina online di "Business English B2" dell’Università di Roma3. A lezione sarà fornita la password necessaria per accedervi. Gli studenti non-frequentanti possono richiedere la password scrivendo alla mail fabiogiuseppe.matassa@uniroma3.it.