English for Project Managers: Business Environment

Study English by learning Project Management, study Project Management by learning English. This course is designed to help you achieve both.

English for Project Managers: Business Environment is the eighth of the nine modules in the English for Project Managers course. The complete course will cover all the topics needed to prepare for the highly recognised Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®.

To earn most of the recognised Project Management certifications, such as Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute (PMI®), PRINCE2 Practitioner from AXELOS, or Certified Project Manager (CPM) from the International Association of Project Managers (IAPM), you have to pass a rigorous exam. The exam questions are based on sophisticated professional texts full of Project Management terminology and complex business lexicon. To get to the gist of a question and answer it correctly, you have to build a solid, specialised vocabulary and develop advanced reading skills. This course’s aim is to help you do exactly that.

The course is designed in a way that helps you remember difficult project management-related vocabulary and specific project management terms. It is done not by directly giving you the definitions but by offering a series of specially designed exercises to help you to guess the meanings of the new words and project management terms yourself. This approach makes the definitions stick in your memory.

The course is based on professional project management texts adapted from such sources as Project Management Body of Knowledge, Process Groups: A Practice Guide, Governance of Portfolios, Programmes, and Projects: A Practice Guide published by Project Management Institute (PMI), the provider of the highly regarded Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification, and others.

Each unit contains an introductory case, which describes the project situation, illustrating the importance of some project management concepts. It is followed by a series of articles on specific project management tools and techniques related to the concept. After reading an article and completing related exercises, you will have the opportunity to apply each tool to a like-real project situation by solving a short case study. You will be able to check your solutions by comparing them to the example solutions accompanied by detailed explanations. At the end of each unit, there is a test on the new vocabulary, terms, and project management concepts learnt in the unit.

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