MASTERING BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH. EFFI CIENT CORRESPONDENCE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Abstract and keywords
Abstract (English):
This course is designed for university students of International Trade and Environmental Protection. It is aimed at building up students’ competences that enable them to be efficient in solving various professional tasks using English as means of international communication. The course structure comprises two parts: Part 1. Efficient Correspondence for International Trade and Environmental Protection, Part 2. Dialogues in professional Situations in International trade and Environmental protection. Part 1 covers some grammar material, authentic sample business correspondence of different areas, advertising matters and the like. The topics to be studied are: University Correspondence; Proposals; Sponsorship; Vacancies. Teaching methods are based, on the one hand, on a multiple and diverse training of professionally orientated vocabulary in various exercises, on the other hand, on activating the said vocabulary in creative tasks, including case analysis. The Supplement Notes on Linguistic Pragmatics introduces students to some basic issues of linguopragmatics, which helps them enhance the efficiency of rhetorical impact on a partner. To that end the tasks under the heading Linguopragmatic Commentary in units 2-8 are suggested. For students whose command of English is at least Upper Intermediate, with the target level being Advanced.

Keywords:
English; business communication; international trade, environmental protection; efficient communication; correspondence; applied pragmalinguistics
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