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English for Common Interactions in the Workplace: Basic Level
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Module 1: Everyday Language on the Job
• Grammar: present simple to be affirmative, negative question structure, all persons.
• Vocabulary: professions / nationalities.
• Indefinite article: a/an.
• Expressions used when introducing yourself.
• Grammar: present simple (I, you, he/she/it, we -- affirmative & negative).
• Vocabulary: work routine verbs.
• Review of adverbs of frequency.
• Times of the day: In the morning /in the afternoon/ at night.
Module 2: Making Phone Calls
• Grammar: present simple (I, you, he/she/it, we --- questions and short answers).
• Vocabulary: telephoning expressions.
• Grammar: making suggestions
• Vocabulary: numbers/dates
• Dates in British English and American English
Module 3: Preparing for meeting
• Grammar: Going To.
• Vocabulary: Flash Review of Cardinal Numbers 1-60.
• Telling time.
• Grammar: There is / There are
• Prepositions of place
• Vocabulary: Places around town
Module 4: Post-meeting etiquette
• Grammar: Past Simple (To Be).
• Use of Past Tense of go with good/bad.
• Vocabulary: Descriptive Adjectives (it was ...).
• Grammar: Past Simple (regular verbs)
• Vocabulary: Correspondence Verbs (w. common phrasal verbs)
Prerequisite
Instructors
James Gibbons
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Paula Ross
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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