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LCCI ENGLISH FOR
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Aims
The aims of this course are to enable candidates to
develop the ability to:
• write apt and accurate English suited to the
stated purpose
• understand and write English using formats that
are current and common in business communication
• adopt the tone, form, layout, content and
composition appropriate to the requirements of a
given situation
• understand spoken and recorded Business English at
the defined level
• participate in conversations
Objectives
The examination will assess the candidate’s ability
to:
• respond adequately to given stimulus information
and instructions
• select appropriately from the information provided
to produce a balanced, relevant message
• write business communication in a variety of forms
including: a memo, a leaflet, a notice, a report, an
article, a letter
• summarise from a passage/passages of text to
produce, for example, a list or structured notes
• use a suitable layout for the form of
communication used
• write with appropriate levels of clarity,
relevance, economy, logic, accuracy
• expand, reduce, rewrite, reassemble elements of
text for a requested purpose
• omit irrelevant information
• use a suitable tone
SYLLABUS TOPICS
1 Business letters
2 Company leaflets
3 Business reports
4 Business-related articles
5 Lists and/or structured notes
6 Memos
7 Company notices
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LCCI ENGLISH FOR
BUSINESS LEVEL 3
Aims
The aims of this course are to enable candidates to
develop the ability to:
• understand and write English used in a variety of
ways within a range of business contexts
• employ appropriate business formats and styles to
produce a range of business documents for different
audiences and purposes
• understand spoken and recorded Business English at
the defined level
• participate in conversations and discussions
• make an oral presentation on a business-related
topic
Objectives
The examination will assess the candidate’s ability
to:
• employ techniques for handling, displaying, and
interpreting information on a range of common
business practices
• display a range of appropriate tones and styles
suitable for a variety of common business contexts
• display an advanced ability relative to the
- layout of business documentation
- correctness of a given requirement
- communicative impact
• assume a business role in a given scenario in
order to perform a particular task on behalf of an
employer
• transfer and reformulate information based on a
given business scenario
• display imagination, originality and knowledge of
business issues in fulfilling the role required by
the scenario
• employ suitable linguistic forms used for business
requirements so as to:
- be sufficiently accurate in English to understand
and express specialized business-related concepts
- be able to understand and use common idiomatic
forms as used in a business context
- be able to understand subtleties of details and
meaning in English material presented to them
- make limited use of the one dictionary allowed
during the examination
• display awareness of the impact of new technology
and innovative business ideas and practices on the
nature and form of communication
SYLLABUS TOPICS
1 Composing a business letter
2 Drafting an internal company report
3 Business-related text comprehension
4 Business-related text and data conversion and
reformulation
Examination
Candidates will be assessed via a 3-hour examination
consisting of 4 questions:
1 The composition of a letter, the stimulus for
which will be an incoming letter, or the employer’s
instructions, or both. The rubric will include data
on which a reply might be based and an indication of
the tone required
2 The drafting of an internal report based on raw
data given in the form of graphs, notes, press
cuttings, charts, tables etc. Candidates will have
to understand , select, collate and, if necessary,
supplement this data in order to write the report in
the light of the instructions given
3 A comprehension task in which candidates will be
asked to show an understanding of information given
for a defined purpose. This might be a press
article, an extract from a business journal, a
company report, a circular letter, a tender, or some
other form of business reading matter, with which
candidates should be familiar at this stage
4 A conversion task involving the reformulation of a
message for some defined purpose. Thus candidates
may be required to produce a memo from a fax, letter
or computer printout; or an abstract from an
article; or a summary of a phone call for
discussion; or a fax from a company notice,
employer’s instructions, etc.
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