module system

MODULES OF BUSINESS ENGLISH COURSES

LEVEL No. of modules No. of sessions (1 session = 90 or 120 min.) Sessions per level

Manual Skills

Introductive / Beginner (A1) 1 2 3

40 40 40 120 sessions Headway Beginner, Headway Elementary

Intermediate / Elementary (A2) 1 2 3 *

Treshold level / intermediate + (B1) 1 2 3 *

40 40 40 120 sessions

40 40 40 120 sessions

*

*

Advanced Level (B1*)*** 1 2 3 *

40 40 40 120 sessions

Autonomy level / elective operational competence (B2) 1 2 3 *

Level of excellence (C1/C2) 1 2 3 4 *

40 40 40 120 sessions

40 40 40 160 sessions

*

*

Market Leader Elementary

Market Leader PreIntermediate

Market Leader Intermediate

Market Leader UpperIntermediate

Making Contact,

Making Contact,

Socializing, Secretarial, Team building,

Telephoning, Secretarial, Team building,

Telephoning, Business Communication, Meetings and Discussions,

Cross Cultural Training

Cross Cultural Training

Business Communication, Meetings and Discussions, Negotiations, Presentation,Team building, Cross Cultural Training

Presentation,Team building, Cross Cultural Training

40

*

English for Business Studies Negotiations, Presentation, Team building, Cross Cultural Training

* optional module, recommended for exam preparation if exam is required at the end of the level ** Indicated where it is recommended: either during compulsory business modules or instead of the exam preparation module *** B1 and B1+ is the revised denomination of levels used generally by publishers and suitable for matching conventional course book levels (pre-intermediate and intermediate) in the significantly longer overal B1 CEF level Note: If extra lessons are needed, modules can be inserted.

STRUCTURE OF MODULES BY COMMON LEVELS OF THE EUROPEAN REFERENCE FRAMEWORK European Reference Framework

Beginner (A1)

No. of modules (40 lessons/module)

1,2,3

Duration

Skills

Manuals

Elementary (A2)

Lower Intermediate (B1)

Upper Intermediate (B2)

Proficiency (C1)

4,5,6

7,8,9

10,11,12

13,14,15

240

Can understand and use familiar and all-purpose expressions, as much as very simple sentences with the goal of satisfying basic needs. Can introduce himself or somebody else, can formulate and answer questions reffering to personal details, e.g. where he lives, known persons, personal belongings etc. Can communicate in a very simple way, provided that the interlocutor speaks clearly and slowly and is cooperative.

New Headway Elementary

240

Proficiency (C2) 16,17,18 240

Can understand isolated Can understand the phrases and frequently essential elements when used expressions in standard language is direct fields of interest used in familiar and (e.g. personal and family usual topics, related to information, shopping, work, school, leisure etc. close environment, Can do well in most professional activity). situations that come up Can communicate in during a journey where simple and usual the language is spoken. situations which do not Can produce a simple require more than a and coherent discourse simple and direct on familiar topics and exchange of information from his own fields of referring to familiar and interest. Can describe an usual topics. Can event, an experience, a describe with simple dream, a hope or goal means his professional and shortly expose his formation, close arguments or environment and evoke explanations of a project topics corresponding to or idea. his immediate needs

Can understand the main ideas from complex Can understand a texts on concrete or variety of long and abstract topics, including complicated texts and technical discussions in can notice the implicit Can understand, his own specialization. meaning of the text. Can practically without effort, Can communicate with a express himself everything he reads or certain degree of spontaneously and hears. Can depict certain spontaneity and fluency, fluently, without needing facts and arguments from so that the conversation to look for his words. various written or oral with a native speaker Can use the language sources by summarizing does not imply any effort efficiently in his social, them in a coherent way. from any of the professional or academic Can express himself speakers. Can express life. Can express spontaneously, fluently himself clearly and in complex topics in a clear and with precision and detail about a large and well structured way, can distinguish fine number of subjects, can showing that he masters differences of meaning in express his opinion the instruments of complex subjects. about a topic, presenting organization, structure the advantages and and cohesion of the inconveniences of discourse. different possibilities.

New Headway PreIntermediate / Market Leader Elementary

New Headway UpperIntermediate / Market Leader Intermediate

New Headway Intermediate / Market Leader Pre-Intermediate

New Headway Advanced / Market Leader UpperIntermediate

Proficiency English