About
'Lets Do Business' series
What
is 'Lets do Business'?
Overview of the Course
The course is divided into four modules (Negotiating, Telephoning, Meetings, Presentations). Each module contains a number of lessons and each lesson is divided into a number of units. Each unit is organised in the following way:
Scenario and Objectives / Schema Screen(s)
These exercises are designed to activate the learners knowledge of the world. The exercises set out to raise issues discussed in the video that the learner will view in the unit before they attempt the comprehension exercise.
There is usually no right or wrong answer to the exercises on these screens.
Comprehension Screen
The learner is asked to view the video a number of times before attempting to answer the true, false, n/a (not available, no information is given) format exercise.
Language Awareness Screens
Function/Grammar Exercises
The learner is given a brief explanation of the functional or grammatical focus of the exercise. There follows an exercise to exploit the focus item. These exercises take a number of formats. There is a strong emphasis on grammar and functions at a discourse level.
Pronunciation Exercises
The course designers attempt to raise awareness of the principal features of spoken English. For this reason, a range of accents have been selected. The exercises focus on stress patterns, connected speech and intonation patterns on a sentence level.
The exercises are designed to exploit the examples from the videos.
In all of the exercises you can listen as many times as you like before completing the exercise. You can record yourself if this option is available on your computer.
Vocabulary Exercises
The focus in the vocabulary section is upon helping the learners devise strategies for building up their own word bank. Exercises are designed in order to show practical ways to aid retention of new vocabulary. The vocabulary tasks draw upon the words and phrases used in the videos.
Summary Screen
Having completed all the language exercises, the learner can view a summary screen. The purpose of this screen is to enable the learner to listen to the language exploited in the earlier language exercises in context.
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