COURSE OUTLINE

COURSE OUTLINE
By Ms. Võ Phước Như Hảo, MA
• Class: TE04
• Textbook: Intelligence Business Intermediate
• Course Objective: The aim of this course is to provide higher academic vocabulary, skills and
strategies for those students who major in economics and look for better job opportunities.
• Course length: 60 periods/ 10 weeks/ 3 periods per day
• Assessment: 1 midterm test (testing listening and writing skills), 2 presentations (testing speaking
skill)
WEEK
1 11/02
• Introduction & Course Briefing
• Grouping and Presentations
18/02
• Vocabulary about COMPANIES (UNIT 1)
• Listening
• Homework: Reading (pp.8-9)
2 25/02
• Reading (pp.50-51)
• Reading skill: Scanning & Skimming
(Toeic)
• Homework: Present simple and
continuous (p.11) + Dilemma (p.56)
11/03
• Grammar: Present simple and continuous (p.11)
• Speaking: Dilemma (p.14)
• Homework: Writing: How to write a formal
letter/email
3 18/03
• Writing: How to write a formal
letter/email (Toeic)

• Homework: Vocabulary about
LEADERSHIP
25/03
• Vocabulary about LEADERSHIP (UNIT 2)
• Listening (p.19)
• Homework: Reading (pp.17-18)
4 01/04
• Reading (pp.17-18)
• Homework: Articles (p.20)
15/04
• Grammar: Articles (p.20)
• Career skills (P.21)
• Listening (p.21)
• Homework: Dilemma (p.22) + Vocabulary about
STRATEGIES
5 22/04
• Speaking: Dilemma (p.22)
• Vocabulary about STRATEGIES
(UNIT 3)
• Listening (p.24)
• Homework: Reading (pp.24-25)
25/04
• Reading (pp.24-25-26)
• Reading skill: How to guess meanings of unfamiliar
words from context (Toeic)
• Homework: Future forms (p.27-28) + Dilemma
(p.30)
6 29/04
• Grammar: Future forms (p.27-28)
• Speaking: How to make short

presentations + Dilemma (p.30)
• Homework: Vocabulary about
REWARDS (Unit 4)
02/05
• Vocabulary about REWARDS (UNIT 4)
• Listening (p.34)
• Homework: Reading (pp.34-36)
7 06/05
• Reading (pp.34-36)
• Homework: Grammar: present perfect
vs past simple + How to write a memo
09/05
• Grammar: present perfect vs past simple
• Writing: How to write a memo
8 13/05
MIDTERM TEST
Listening
Written Test (Write a formal email or a memo)
Homework: Evaluating performance +
Dilemma (p.40) + vocabulary about
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION
16/05
• Speaking: Evaluating performance
• Dilemma (p.40)
• vocabulary about ENVIRONMENTAL
PRESERVATION ((UNIT 5)
• Homework: Reading (p.42-44)
9 20/05
• Reading (p.42-44)
• Listening (p.42)

• Homework: Modal verbs of likelihood
(p.45) + Career skills (p. 47)
23/05
• Modal verbs of likelihood
• Career skills (p. 47)
10 27/05
REVIEW
UNIT 1-UNIT 5
30/05
REVIEW
BRIEFING FOR TOEIC