Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 352105 | Subject title: ENGLISH | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Basic | Year: 1 | Period: 1º S | ||
| Department: Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación | |||||
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| LOSHUERTOS CENTENARIO, LAURA (Resp) [Mentoring ] | |||||
Contents
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Tema 1. Company Organization and Human Resources Departments.
1.1) Company Organization
1.2) Grammar: Verb tenses/ Articles and quantifiers
1.3) Vocabulary: Learning Strategies
1.4) Reading: Human Resources department
1.5) Letter and e-mail writing: Letter organization and language/Formal and informal language
1.6) Listening: Experiences/Dealing with communication difficulties
1.5) Speaking: Asking questions
1.6) Pronunciation : Vowels 1
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Tema 2. Writing: Letters and e-mails
2.1) Reading: Job advertisements/ Abbreviations
2.2) Grammar: Adverbs/Modal Verbs
2.3) Vocabulary: Compound Words
2.4) Letter writing: Spelling/Punctuation/Replies
2.5) Listening: Numbers and references/Appointments/Problems with orders
2.6) Speaking: Numbers and references/Appointments/Problems with orders
2.7) Pronunciation : Vowels II
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Tema 3. Employment Law
3.1) Reading :Employment Law
3.2) Grammar: Questions/ Connectors/ Future tenses
3.3) Vocabulary: Human Resources/ Verbs+ prepositions
3.4) Letter Writing: Answering enquiries
3.5) Listening: Reports/ An Employment Tribunal Claim
3.6) Speaking: Agreeing/Disagreeing/ Defining words
3.7) Pronunciation: Consonants I
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Tema 4. Health and Safety/ Absenteeism
4.1) Reading: Health and safety/Absenteeism
4.2) Grammar: Adjectives/Comparison /Modifiers /Relative Clauses
4.3) Vocabulary: Language of meetings and negotiations/Adjectives + preposition/Two word expressions
4.4) Reading: Absenteeism
4.5) Letter Writing: Orders
4.6)Listening: Description of graphs/ Meetings/Negotiations
4.7) Speaking: Describing graphs/ Meetings (Project)
4.8) Pronunciation: Consonants II
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Tema 5. Unemployment
5.1) Reading and listening: Unemployment
5.2) Grammar: present participle(-ing) and Infinitive/ Adverbial Clauses I: Conditionals/ If only, I wish
5.3) Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs/Word partnership/ Social language
5.4) Reading: Motivation
5.5) Listening: Staying at a hotel/Street Directions
5.6) Speaking: Giving directions/ Social language
5.7) Letter writing: Replies
5.8) Pronunciation: Practice
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Tema 6. Selection Methods
6.1) Reading: Selection methods
6.2) Grammar. Passive
6.3) Vocabulary: Nouns + prepositions/ Presentations/Word partnerships
6.4) Reading: Questioning skills
6.5) letter writing: complaints
6.6) Listening: Processes and procedures
6.7) Speaking: Processes and procedures
6.8) Pronunciation: Practice
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Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE RA8 Have knowledge of a foreign language (in English, level B1).
KNOWLEDGE RA16 Be able to express yourself in English regarding contracts, personnel benefits, selection processes, job security and human resources development,
SKILLS RA59 Analyse, relate and synthesise information in the field of study.
SKILLS RA60 Organise and plan time and work in an efficient manner
SKILLS RA61 Express yourself orally and in writing using appropriate terminology and techniques.
SKILLS RA65 Solve problems and make decisions in the resolution of practical cases
SKILLS RA70 Manage one's own learning process
COMPT RA102 Work in a team
Methodology
Horas: 16 horas (0.66 ECTS)
Evaluation
| Learning outcome |
Assessment activity |
Weight (%) | It allows test resit |
Minimum required grade |
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| R1, R2, R3, R4 | Examen parcial | 15 | SÍ | |
| R1, R2, R3, R4 | Examen final | 50 | SÍ | |
| R5, R6, R7, R8 | Proyectos y asistencia | 35 | NO | |
La evaluación consiste en cuatro partes:
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Agenda
COURSE SYLLABUS (UPDATED May 2025):
UNIT 1
1.1) Company organization. Understand the structure of a company and its various departments, including key roles and responsibilities. Types of employment contracts, rewards and remuneration, employee rights and benefits
1.2) Grammar: Verb tenses overview/ Articles and quantifiers
1.3) Vocabulary: learning strategies, speacialised business vocabulary
1.4) Reading: Human Resources Dept, organisational chart of a company
1.5) Writing: describing your company
1.6) Listening: at work, presenting your company
1.7) Speaking: agreement and disagreement, descriptive discourse
UNIT 2
2.1) Recruitment process. How to effectively write job offers, cover letters, and CVs, preparing and conducting job interviews. Vocabulary: terminology used in recruitment processes
2.2) Grammar: Adverbs/Modal Verbs
2.3) Writing: how to write a job offer
2.4) Reading: applying for a job, recruiting process, job profiles
2.5) Listening: job interview, job offers
2.6) Speaking: expressing opinion, assessing profiles
UNIT 3
3.1) Workplace well-being and employee relations. Key aspects of the modern workplace, focusing on conflict management, employee motivation, work-life balance, and health and safety
3.2) Grammar: Connectors/ Prepositions/ Comparative superlative/countable uncountable
3.3) Writing: cover letter/email, cv
3.4) Reading: conflict resolution, stress management, work-life balance
3.5) Listening: health and safety, work satisfaction, managing conflict
3.6) Speaking: decision making, motivation at work
UNIT 4
4.1) Managing workplace dynamics. Insight on current trends at work, resilience, flexible working, agile working.
4.2) Grammar: -ing and infinitive/ conditionals
4.3) Vocabulary: contrasting structures
4.4) Reading: coaching, mindfulness, resilience, teambuilding
4.5) Writing: recruitment process
4.6) Listening: arranging meetings, getting advice
4.7) Speaking: oral presentations, describing a recruitment process
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
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Básica
Workbook- asignatura: Loshuertos Centenario, L. English for Labour Relations and Human Resources.
Complementaria
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Books
Hughes J and Naunton J, (2017). Business Result Intermediate, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.
Palmer Silveira, J.C. (2003). Business English in the University Classroom. Castellón; Universitat Jaime I.
Wallwork, A. (2002). Business Vision. Oxford; Oxford University Press.
Krois-Linder, A (2006). International Legal English. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
Jones, L. & Alexander, R. (2000) New International Business English.Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
Margaret O'Keeffe, Lewis Lansford, Ros Wright, Evan Frendo, Lizzie Wright (2018) Business Partner B1. Pearson Education
Whitby N, (2006) Business Benchmark, Pre-intermediate to Intermediate. Cambridge University Press.
Paul
Emmerson,
Francesca
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S., 2020, Business Partner B1,
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Education
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Grammar
Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert (2019). English file 4th edition B1. Oxford; Oxford University Press
Murphy, R. (2004) English Grammar in use (intermediate).Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
Various, (2010) That's English B1, 1st edition,
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Online dictionaries
4) Online grammar
English Grammar in Spanish
Business English in Spanish
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