The course covers common business situations: presenting oneself in a company, job interviews, product presentations, company presentations, as well as business texts. Students give an oral presentation on a company and a product.

The course introduces students to Spanish business culture:
•cultural differences, corporate forms, organisation, commerce, finance, marketing, workplace culture
•products and services, Trade fair and sustainable development
•marketing and fairs

Distinctive features of written Spanish:
•business correspondence: offers, offer requests, orders, claims
•PR letters: invitations, congratulations, thank you letters, condolences

The options that are appropriate for the course:
Contact lessons
Individual, pair and team assignments
Independent studies

The assessment of one’s own learning 1 h

Alternative ways to complete the course: one alternative available to students is that they complete all of the coursework and take the final exam, without attending the actual contact hours.

Materials given by the teacher.

Competence level: B1
Spanish Business Communication 1 or equivalent studies.

The student: has some difficulty in learning, but he or she is moving towards improving her/his knowledge of business Spanish. He/she uses very short sentences and very basic language constructions. He/she has limited vocabulary, but is understandable to native speakers. He/she understands what is spoken in his/her environment and also participates to some degree in it.

The student speaks Spanish with a certain correction and he/she also tries to overcome any language barriers by making use of body language and other forms of communication. He/she tries to improve her/his skills in the use of business Spanish and uses simpler language to explain more abstract concepts. He/she slowly learns business Spanish
vocabulary and also makes a great effort to create coherent and comprehensible language when talking to native speakers. He/she expresses himself or herself in Spanish-speaking environments.

The student develops oral language with great skill and high level of interactive communication. He/she learns and practices different genres of discourse and, at the same time, he/she is able to reproduce fairly fluent and understandable spoken language. He/she acquires an extensive vocabulary in business communication in professional settings. He/she acts naturally in any environment where he/she needs to use Spanish on a high cultural level.

Passed courses are assessed on a scale of 1 to 5. The assessment criteria are presented for grades 1 – 3 – 5.