Medaglia-Seiffarth "Twenty-Thirty: English for Responsible Business" Casa Ed. RIZZOLI

Silvia Minardi "Training for Successful Invalsi" Casa ed PEARSON

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (revision)
. Forms of business communication .Business letters .Telephone conversations .Visual communication
BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS (revision)
. The stages: Enquiries and Replies – Orders and Execution of Orders – Complaints and Replies to Complaints
BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS (revision)
.The Privare Sector .The Public Sector .How can a Company Grow
SUSTAINABILITY and GREEN ECONOMY
.Sustainability and Green Energy .What is CSR? . Triple bottom line
WORKING IN A COMPANY
.The Organisational structure of a Company .The Role of Manager . Hierarchy. Dealing with business meeetings . Legal responsabilityand private issues. Safety rules and web security
MARKETING
.Business Plan and SWOT analysis
.What is marketing? .The marketing mix . Market segmentation .The role of Market research . Marketing strategies and techniques
.Advertising media

BANKING and FINANCE
Bank services. Microcredit. Comparing banking services Borrowing money, Lending money, Assisting businesses and other banking services. Methods of payment
.Finance. The Stock Exchange . When finance goes wrong

THE EUROPEAN UNION
.The EU in brief .The Institutions .The policies .Main steps (Reasons for the Union) .The main European Treaties. Brexit. Economic and monetary issues. Not only Business in Europe

THE UK MAIN HISTORICAL EVENTS + BRITISH INSTITUTIONS
.First Invaders: Romans + Angles-Saxons
.The Middle Ages (Magna Carta, The Tudor Dinasty)
.The Stuarts and the Civil War
.The Industrial Revolution
.The Victorian Age and the Great Exhibition . The First and the second World war. The end of the British Empure. The 21st Century

BRITISH INSTITUTIONS
.The Constitutional Monarchy
.The Parliament
. The UK Constitution
. Main Political Parties

THE US MAIN HISTORICAL EVENTS + INSTITUTIONS
.First part: First settlements
.Second part: The Independence War
.Third part: the Civil War . The beginning of the 20th Century: The Wall Street Crash and WW2. The Cold War
.The US Civil Rights Movement: M.L. King

USA INSTITUTIONS
.The American Constitution
.The Congress .
.The Electoral System
. Main Political Parties

Le Istituzioni a confronto

• Attività laboratoriali
• Lavoro individuale
• Lezioni frontali
• Lezioni partecipate
• Ricerche guidate in internet
• Classroom virtuali
• Youtube
• Meet

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