About 'Lets Do Business'
series
What
is 'Lets do Business'?
The 'Let's Do Business' software series is a learner-centred, highly interactive, English course for business people and students. The course balances accuracy and fluency work and systematically develops language skills. The course is suitable for good intermediate and more advanced learners. It is ideal for self-study and small group work. Learners can use the programme to prepare for international business exams.
The authors at Abacus Communications Ltd. have extensive experience in delivering classroom and technology-based training courses.
Upon completion of the 'Let's Do Business' course, learners will use English with confidence, having acquired skills and techniques which will enable them to use the language to its full potential in their work environment.
The course is divided into four modules offering a minimum of 160 hours training in total. Each module covers one of the following core business activities;
| The Language of Negotiating, | (View Online Demo) |
| The Language of Telephoning, | (View Online Demo) |
| The Language of Meetings, | (View Online Demo) |
| The Language of Presentations, | (View Online Demo) |
There are four modules in the series. Each module contains a module of the course. A detailed Help File can be printed from each disc if required.
The course includes authentic management training videos and has been developed from an on-going study into the pedagogical value of computer-based language training materials at Trinity College, Dublin.
The course uses methods and techniques that are in common use in conventional language training programmes.
It is designed to be flexible both for the learner and for the language trainer who has to evaluate how such materials may be incorporated into current and or future language training programmes.
Key Features
Course Structure Learners benefit from exposure to 'authentic' materials. The video materials in the 'Let's Do Business' course have been carefully selected to demonstrate the type of interactions that can take place in real life business situations. Learners benefit from using language in context.
Objectives
The primary aims of the course are:
Language
Awareness
The purpose of the learning programme is to raise awareness:
- of high frequency functional items in real-life business situations,
- of the effect of discourse on choice of grammatical structures,
- of ways of organising vocabulary in order to aid memory,
- of features of spoken English that can cause difficulties for non-native speakers,
- of ways of recognising intonation patterns in spoken English,
- of ways of identifying stress patterns in spoken English.
Syllabus
Based on our present understanding of the nature of interaction and using
the latest corpus technology, the course designers identified the most
frequently occurring functional and grammatical items in real life business
situations. The course syllabus has been generated from the texts of the
video films.
Setting language
in its context aids learning. The content of the language tasks has also
been generated from the texts of the films. Exposing the learners to the
high frequency language and patterns, used in the films, can help the
learner with recognition and retrieval of items held in the mental lexicon.
Video
Materials
The video materials used in the course are all authentic and were originally
developed as training materials for English-speaking business people.
Using authentic materials allows you to hear real language with all the
features of spoken English that are not normally found in specially prepared
language materials. This will make it easier to understand 'natural speech'
outside the classroom.
Glossary
The programme contains a glossary of more than 9000 items which appear
in the films. Definitions are given in English. The sentences given to
illustrate meaning are all authentic examples of spoken English drawn
from the corpus of materials and cross-referenced with the British National
Corpus.
