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3. Speaking activities
3.1. Make up 10 questions you would ask the faculty of BI
department of an American university, using the words from
Vocabulary Activity I.
UNIT 2. The place of Business Informatics among
other disciplines
1. Reading activities
1.1. How can you describe Business Informatics as a university
subject?
1.2. Read the text and match the paragraph headings below to
the paragraphs:
A. Discussions about Business Informatics in
European universities
B. Business Informatics as an interdisciplinary subject.
C. Information Systems as a part of business knowledge.
D. I nformatics and business study complement each other.
E. Difference between BI and Information Systems.
1.3. Which paragraph tells us about:
A. why Information Systems and Business Informatics are still dif-
ferent disciplines?
B. the nature of Information Systems as a discipline?
C. Informatics providing support for business functions?
D. Different approaches to teaching Information Systems in differ-
ent countries?
E. what kind of science BI is?
1.4. Put the sentences, summarizing the main idea of each para-
graph, in the correct order:
A. Information Systems is located inside business knowledge.
B. BI includes business, scientific and engineering components.
