This module includes understanding general and specific information conveyed in passages and articles. Reading strategies covered are skimming, scanning, reading for details, reading for tone, and reading to identify the sequence of events.

The writing activities focus on the different phases of the writing process which include the pre-writing phase; functional writing; drafting; revising; editing; and final phase. Some of the tasks covered in this module would be interpreting and explaining data from charts; describing and/or explaining concepts and issues from subjects such as Economics, Business Communication, Marketing and Management, Entrepreneurship, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Ethics, Import Export and so on.

This module adopts current understanding of the nature of listening comprehension in learning English as the second and foreign language by promoting the use of top-down and bottom-up processing skills. Top-down processing skills require students to use key words and predictive strategies, to apply their own background knowledge, situational, topical and contextual clues, in order to derive meaning. Bottom-up processing skills require the knowledge of individual words to gain understanding of the message. These two skills are essential in listening for gist and details, and inferring meaning from context.

Developing good speaking skills is one of the key focus in this course. Speaking activities focus on conversational fluency such as the ability to open and close conversations in English, introduce and develop conversational topics, use communication strategies and clarification requests, and understand and use a variety of idiomatic expressions. In addition, a range of useful conversational expressions is taught and practised in role-play, pair work exercises and student-centred activities.

This module focuses on the presentation process which includes research on given business topics, drafting of PowerPoint slides, revising and editing of presentation content, mock presentation to gain feedback from peers and the formal final presentation.

This module familiarises students with business vocabulary items often used in their business programmes. It aims to develop students' understanding of the meaning to the key vocabulary words and to guide students to use these terms correctly and in context.