Información general


Tipo de asignatura: optativa

Coordinador: Joan Triadó Aymerich

trimestre: Primer trimestre

Créditos: 6

Profesorado: 

Juan García Ramírez

Idiomas de impartición


  • Inglés

Este módulo está completamente delivered en English.

Competencias


competencias transversales
  • CT1: Que los estudiantes conozcan una tercera lengua, que será preferentemente el inglés, con un nivel adecuado de forma oral y por escrito y de acuerdo con las necesidades que tendrán las graduadas y graduados en cada titulación.

Descripción


English for the Profesional World AIMS to help students be competente in planning their job hunting process as well as in using English accurately in certain situations of profesional life.

Como formador, considerando como competitivo el profesional del mundo, los estudiantes deben prepararse para las semillas y realizar las diferentes en orden a la ciudad a juego.

Regarding the Latter, effective communication is a skill profesionales have to Acquire before Completing university and entering the world of business.

 

 

Contenidos


1. Personal Statement. CV. Cover Letter. Job Interview

  • 1.1 Research of the job hunting process: stages, mind map of strengths and weaknesses, Qualifications, work experience.
  • 1.2 Personal statement: features of the personal statement, short description of the applicant (educacion, work experience, soft skills, achievements, goal).
  • 1.3 The CV oro Resume: sections of the CV, vocabulary, analysis of common errores, first good impresión, the CV and the job offer, creative CVs.
  • 1.4 The Cover Letter: features and partes of a good cover letter, style and vocabulary, the Cover Letter and the job offer.
  • 1.5 The Job Interview: preparation of the job interview, the small talk, typical questions and the most suitable answers, good first impression, vocabulary, analysis of common errores, simulation of a job interview.

2. Effective Oral Presentations

  • Structure of an oral presentation in profesional contexto
  • The body language
  • Effective visual aids

Sistema de evaluación


Assignments donde all the points of the syllabus will be collected for assessment:

- Personal statement

- CV

- Carta de presentación

- Job entrevista

- Formal writing

- Oral exercises: discusiones, dialogas, oral presentations

1. Continuous asessment: 70%

  • PW # 1: Personal Statement (5%)
  • PW # 2: CV (15%)
  • PW # 3: Listening comprehension (10%)
  • PW # 4: Cover letter (15%)
  • PW # 5: Speaking activity: Job Interview (10%)
  • PW#6: Short writing: summary of an artículo (5%)
  • PW # 7: Short oral presentation on one of the artículos given oro donde topic chosen by the student (10%)

2. Oral presentation of profesional profile: 20%. This activity is mandatory in order to pass the subject.

3. Class ATTENDANCE and participation: 10%

Resit Exam: 70%. The Resit exam covers the continuous assessment parte (point 1 above). In order to be allowed to do the Resit exam, a mark of 4 to 4.9 must be achieved in the continuous assessment parte. Otherwise, the module will be given a fail. The caros mark posible in the Resit exam is PASS (5). 

MUY IMPORTANTE:

Total oro partial Plagiarismo of año of the assignments will be automatically qualified as FAIL (0). And, if Plagiarism is repeated, it may mean that the module has a definitive Qualification of FAIL (0).

Plagiarism consiste of copying texto from unacknowledged sources, whether this is part of a sentence oro a whole texto, which is intended as the student s own texto. It includes cutting and pasting from Internet sources, Presented unmodified in the student s own texto. Plagiarism IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors 'intellectual property, always Identifying the sources they may use. They must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own textos.

Bibliografía


Básico

Handouts. English for the Professional World.

Complementario

http://jobs.theguardian.com/

Powell, Mark. In Company 3.0. Sl: Macmillan, 2004.

http://www.cvtips.com/

http://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-advice

Evans, David. Business English Verbos. Harlow: Penguin English, 2000. Print.

Flinders, Steve, and Steve Flinders. Test Your Profesional English: Business: General. Harlow, Essex, Eng: Pearson Education, 2002. Print.

 

McCarthy, Michael, and Felicity O'Dell. English Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Prensa de la Universidad de Cambridge, 2001.

http://www.cv-masterclass.com/

https://www.engvid.com/

Downes, Colmo. Cambridge English for Job-Hunting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

www.ted.com

www.esl-lab.com

http://esl.about.com/od/listening/