BPJ_JI2F Foreign Language I/2 - French

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marie Červenková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Daniela Veškrnová (lecturer)
Ing. Mgr. Blanka Pojslová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Marie Červenková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Economics and Administration Division – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Jurková
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Economics and Administration Division – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Timetable of Seminar Groups
BPJ_JI2F/01: Mon 12:00–13:50 VT314, Wed 12:00–13:50 VT314, M. Červenková
Prerequisites
( BPJ_JI1F Foreign Language I/1 - F )
Succesful completion of the subject BPJ_JI1F (PJI1F).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the second semester the course develops skills covered in the BPJ_JI1F course and provides an opportunity to master further topics and skills typical for a more complex communication, and to apply them to professional activities typical of the business environment, such as:
- interpretation of graphical data,
- communication over telecommunication devices,
- taking minutes and
- writing up messages.
This subject further develops students’ general and business vocabulary as well as grammatical structures typical for technical language. The stress is again put not only on the development of communication skills, but also on the ability to use the acquired knowledge actively.
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- understand a general economic text of upper-intermediate difficulty level,
- discuss covered economic topics and
- orientate themselves in French economic terminology relating to the covered topics.
Syllabus
  • Additional Assistant's Responsibilities: Work Schedules, Business Trips Arrangements
  • Setting Up a Business: Founder's Profile, Raising Capital, Establishment, Start-Up Procedures, Legal Forms of Business, Winding Up
  • The Market and Business Performance, Market Factors
  • Consumer protection
  • Marketing, Market Research, Product, Price, Forms of Customer Communication
  • Doing Business: Points of Sale, Distribution, Selling, Selling Online
  • Business Correspondence: Standard Letter Layout, Enquiry, Offer
Literature
    required literature
  • BLOOMFIELD, Anatole and Béatrice TAUZIN. Affaires a suivre :cours de français professionnel de niveau intermédiaire. Paris: Hachette, 2001, 192 s. ISBN 2-01-155164-1. info
  • SACHS, Rudolf and Renata POHORSKÁ. Francouzská obchodní korespondence : Correspondance commerciale (Souběž.). 1. vyd. Plzeň: Fraus, 1999, 224 s. ISBN 80-85784-84-X. info
    recommended literature
  • PENFORNIS, Jean-Luc. Affaires.com : [méthode de français des affaires : niveau avancé]. Paris: Cle International, 2003, 127 s. ISBN 2090331763. info
Teaching methods
This course is taught in the form of seminars.
Assessment methods
This course is completed with conferring a credit.
Credit requirements include the following:
- 80% active participation in seminars (systematic continuous preparation and fulfilling assigned tasks),
- 60% success rate in the final credit test,
- elaborating a seminar paper (a summary of economic text, written up according to an instructor’s guidelines and handed in by a deadline set by an instructor).
If a student commits a prohibited act, such as using various forbidden tools (e.g. cheatsheets), cribbing, taking out any part of the credit test or any other form of cheating, the teacher is allowed to interrupt the test and to grade the student with F, FF or even FFF, according to the seriousness of the offence. The described procedure applies to all the activities that are included in the final evaluation of the course (seminar work).
Language of instruction
French
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Nezapisují si studenti, kteří absolvovali předmět PJI2F.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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