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A1
(Breakthrough) Pre-Intermediate
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(Basic User)
A2 Interm
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The aim of the syllabus is to prepare students to use English for academic purposes while
studying at the Higher School of Economics and subsequently for their professional needs in real
business situations. This is realized as BEC 1 at Breakthrough and Waystage levels.
This preparatory BEC course is designed to give students the opportunity to acquire a certain
amount of the terminology needed to understand texts on business and finance in the English
speaking world.
Themes will include a selection of the following:
Banking
Business organization
Stock exchange
General economy
Presenting a company
Where appropriate, areas of specialist interest to students will be covered.
The student can understand and use familiar everyday
A1 expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction
(Breakthrough) of needs of a concrete type; can introduce him/herself and
others and can ask and answer questions about personal
details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and
things he/she has; can interact in a simple way provided the
other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.