Course Content

General Information

Schedule: Tuesday 15.15-18.00

Amphitheatre 104, Main Building

Contact Details:

Email: mamakou@unipi.gr

Office Phone Number: 210 414 2641

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10.00-12.00

Office 201, 126 Grigoriou Lambraki Street

Course Description

This is the second part of the course offered in the first semester.  The purpose of this course is to further advance the vocabulary within the domain of business, public relations, politics and finance.

Course Objectives

• To expand on and recycle technical vocabulary and language structures
• To develop students’ writing skills in order to produce short essays whose topics are directly related to their subject courses
• To help students successfully communicate in  International Relations contexts

Course Materials

• Principal textbooks:

     1. Diamantis, G.V. 2010. Study English for Business Educational Purposes, Interbooks

STUDY MATERIAL- TOPIC AREAS

• Unit 2 Boardroom Culture Clash
• Unit 4 Mass Media
• Unit 5 East meets West: Outsourcing
• Unit 7 Finance-Stocks and Shares
• Unit 12 Public vs Private
• Units 30 & 32 Multinationals and the Third World (1&2)

BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS VOCABULARY

1. Special Areas- 4. Investing, 5. Accounting, 9. International Trade, 11. Personnel-Human Resources
2. Miscellaneous- Confusing words, Formal English, Social English, Making a Presentation

       2. Diamantis, G.V. 2008, English for Academic Discussion Classes, Stamoulis Publication

ACADEMIC DISCUSSION

The Role of the Discussion Gambits in making clear and well-supported assertions.

Topic Areas

1. The Role and the Power of the Mass Media
2. The Role of the NGO’S in International Relations
3. The Death Penalty
4. Human Cloning
5. Lifelong Learning

     3. Diamantis, G.V. 2002, English for Business Communication, Interbooks

Assessment

Assessment will be based on performance in the end-of-semester written exam (85%) and compulsory course assignment (Essay Writing: 15%). 

Prerequisite

Current first year students are reminded that they wiil not be entitled to sit for the 3rd semester end-of-term exam unless they have successfully completed their English language modules in semesters 1 and 2.

Consultation Hours