For the purpose of helping students at the Academy of Finance (AOF) improve their foreign language competence, Teachers of Foreign Language Department, Foreign Language Faculty, AOF were assigned to design the course book "BASIC BUSINESS ENGLISH".

This course book is designed for the students of Advanced Bachelor Education Program for meeting the needs of improving business English which is related to working environment.

In a global workplace, it is increasingly important for students to learn the language of business if they want to be successful in their jobs in the future. But in addition to the language, it is important to be familiar with key business concepts and developments, and to understand how business works in different cultures. The resources of reading texts from Economist magazines or some course books "Intelligent Business", "Market Leader" or "Business English" that the authors use to design different types of language learning tasks provide extensive coverage of news, current trends, and the latest ideas from around the world.

For the elementary course book, the authors have tried to select topics which cover general business activities such as company activities, company data, brands & images, company success, selling, prices and so on. It is expected that the course book gives an overview of business today as well as something of interest to everyone. Students will be able to learn more about the business world and, at the same time, see how key language (both spoken and written) is used in real contexts.

Each unit has a central theme or themes. Exercises and practical activities are developed around this to practice the key grammar and vocabulary areas.

Finally, the elementary course book is designed suitably with the syllabus of three credits for the purpose of helping students at elementary level to improve knowledge of business English, together with practicing four language skills at the same time.

The course book "BASIC BUSINESS ENGLISH" consists of eight Units and two Revisions as follows:

Unit 1: Company activities

Unit 2: Company data

Unit 3: Image and Brands

Unit 4: Company success

Revision 1

Unit 5: Future

Unit 6: Job-seeking

Unit 7: Selling

Unit 8: Prices

Revision 2

The Basic Business English course book is accompanied by a separate Workbook that provides comprehensive exercises and activities for students' self-studying outside the class hours. The Workbook will be designed by the group of authors soon with the same topics chosen in the Course book. The authors hope that students of Advanced Bachelor Education Program as well as other interested students will find this course book enjoyable and beneficial.

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank the Administration of the Academy of Finance who provided us the great opportunity and much encouragement for designing the course book. We also thank the Department of Scientific Project Management, the AOF for giving us suggestions for formats and procedures.

The authors must also thank their colleagues, the teachers of English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Language the Academy of Finance who provided us a careful check for mistakes in the drafts as well as valuable recommendations for the final course book to be completed.

Special thank is given to the groups of authors of English Department, the Faculty of Foreign Language at the Academy of Finance who joined with us to provide reading texts and exercises for designing the textbook. The group of authors consists of:

1. Nguyen Thi Van Anh, MA              11. Pham Thi Tam, PhD

2. Vu Le Anh, MFin                           12. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, MA

3. Vu Thi Thanh Ha, MA                    13. Bui Thi Bich Thuy

4. Cao Thi Hoa, MA                           14. Do Khac Truong, MA 67

5. Ta Dinh Hoa, PhD                          15. By Thanh Trung, MA

6. Hoang Thanh Loan, MA                 16. Le Thi Huong Giang, MA

7. Trinh Thi Thu Phuong, MA            17. Vu Thi Phuong, MA

8. Nguyen Thi Tam, MA                    18. Ta Quang Hung, MA

9. Ha Thi Phuong Mai, MA                 19. Khuong Thu Hai – PhD

10. Nguyen Tra My, MA                     Vietnam-Hungary Industry University

Finally, we must thank the students at AOF who usually show us their good appreciation and from whom we are much motivated to try our best to design a good product.

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