Lets Do Business
Course
Negotiating
Telephoning
Meetings
Being a Leader
Effective Meetings
Leading Questions
Handling Hostility
Presentations
The Language of Meetings
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Number of Lessons: 4
Total Hours of Tuition: 40 hrs average
Total Number of Units: 17
"Let's Do Business - The Language of Meetings" deals with key business issues over a series of 4 separate lessons. All the lessons are self contained, and can be taken in any order. The key feature for each lesson is the video, taken from authentic management training materials. Click on the lesson titles on the left for more details on the video and the language objectives covered.
On-line Demo
Scenario
You will
- study uses of as and like
- practise being polite
- study the function of which
- study the use of wh-clauses
- practice some common idioms
- study some collocations
- practise stressed and unstressed modals
- practise talking about possibilities
- study some more idioms
- study a group of sporting metaphors
- study the vocabulary of meetings
- practise making decisions and predictions
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Scenario
The
managers of a small courier company meet with a shareholder to discuss
their business plans.
You will
- study the usage of going to
- study the word make
- study the word point
- study uses of have got
- study uses of the word run
- study discourse markers with say and tell
- study past simple and present perfect
- study first and second conditionals
- practice the intonation of conditionals
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Leading Questions (4 Units)
Scenario
Two production managers discuss the preparations required to deal with an order from an important new client. A week later, the two production managers meet again to review the preparations.
Objectives:-
You
will
- study the use of the word deal
- study wh-questions
- practice using know and think
- practise using every, each and all
- study the use of irregular verbs in the past tense
- study the verbs followed by infinitives
- study the vocabulary of problem-solving
- study the intonation of spoken English
-
practise the intonation of question forms
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Handling Hostility (3 Units)
Scenario
Managing and motivating people is probably the most difficult task facing
a manager. In this video, you will see a tense meeting which includes
a problem employee, his trade union representative, a production manager,
and a personnel manager.
You will
- study the word rule
- study question tags
- study reporting verbs
- study a set of phrasal verbs
- study the usage of some and any
- practise being polite and being direct
- study somes uses of to work
- practice the intonation of question tags
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