1. COMMUNICATION. Talking about what makes a good communicator. Vocabulary: Adjectives to describe good communicators. Idioms. Skills: dealing with communication breakdown. Language work: Habitual Behaviour and Frequency adverbs. Cambridge preparation
2. INTERNATIONAL MARKETING. Talking about international brands. Vocabulary: Marketing word partnership. Language work: Used to/would. Cambridge preparation
3. BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS. Talking about building relationships. Vocabulary: Describing relationships. Language work: Indirect questions Writing: Letter 1. Cambridge preparation
4. SUCCESS. Discussing what makes people and companies successful. Vocabulary: Prefixes. Language work: Present and past tenses. Cambridge preparation
5. JOB SATISFACTION. Discussing motivational factors. Vocabulary: Synonyms and word-building. Language work: Passives. Cambridge preparation
6. MANAGEMENT STYLES. Discussing different aspects of management styles. Vocabulary: Management qualities. Language work: Gerunds and infinitives. Writing: Report 1. Cambridge preparation
7. TEAM BUILDING. Talking about working in teams. Vocabulary: Prefixes. Language work: Modal perfect. Writing: Letter 2. Cambridge preparation
8. RAISING FINANCE. Discussing how and where finance can be raised. Vocabulary: Financial terms. Language work: Comparisons. Cambridge preparation
9. CRISIS MANAGEMENT. Discussing ways of handling crises. Vocabulary: Handling crises.
Language work: Conditionals. Writing: Article. Cambridge preparation
10. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS. Defining and discussing acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures. Vocabulary: Describing mergers and acquisitions. Language work: Articles Writing: Report 2. Cambridge preparation
Students may opt to follow a final assessment (one final exam) or a continuous assessment
system (work and tests at specified times during the academic year). If the final result of the
Continuous Assessment is below 5 (the passing mark) students will take the final annual
exam (listening, reading, written & oral) in the official calendar date of “convocatòria
extraordinària” established by the University (June or July). Students coursing two or more
simultaneous subjects may have difficulties to opt for the continuous assessment of the
subjects in question.
Seminars are any task (writings, case study, etc.) related to the contents of the different
units along the course and there are four. Skills tests, four also, are readings and listenings
related to Cambridge material. All of them announced previously in class.
Tests 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all of them about the grammar and vocabulary of the units worked in
class. The January and June exams are writings on the articles provided in each unit whose
links are always to be found on Moodle.
Skills tests and tests are independent tasks that will take place on the same day and will be
evaluated independently according to the percentages stated in this programme.
Oral presentation 1 will be about a comparison between customer and product-based
companies and presentation 2 will be done in conjunction with the subject “Màrqueting
Internacional” .
By the 5th April 2018 at the latest, students with the intention of following the final
assessment must sign a document accepting its conditions. The student not signing the
document will be considered as a continuous-assessment student. Under no circumstances
will the document be signed after the date indicated.
By the 5th April 2018 at the latest, students retaking the subject will also have to sign a
document with the conditions of their choice. Under no circumstances will the document be
signed after the date indicated.
Continuous assessment:
Unit Value
Test 1 7%
Test 2 5%
January Exam 12%
Test 3 7%
Test 4 5%
June Exam 12%
Seminars 16%
Oral Presentations 20%
Skills Tests 16%
Final exams (June or July):
Parts Value
Oral (minimum 4) 40%
Listening 20%
Reading 20%
Writing (minimum 4) 20%
Criteris específics de la nota «No Presentat»:
Segons normativa de la Universitat de Girona:
La qualificació de "No Presentat" exhaureix convocatòria de qualificació als efectes previstos en la normativa de Permanència i progressió en estudis de grau de la Universitat de Girona.
Students are advised against plagiarism. Any detected and proved case of plagiarism will
automatically be marked as a “0” (zero).
Students following the continuous assessment can miss 3 tests or any evaluation task with
no need of justification, except January and May/June/July exams where only a medical or
work justification will be needed and accepted. Under no circumstances can any of the
speaking tests, skills tests, tests and seminars be taken on a different date; however, this
will not affect students’ mark. At the beginning of the course students will be provided with
some further guidelines on the subject.
Students will have to sign a document in which they decide which type of assessment they
follow, continuous or final, and the conditions of these. The student not signing the
document will be considered as a continuous-assessment student. Under no circumstances
will the document be signed after the date indicated.