Fine Tuning Your Business English

  

About this Course

English is the number one language for businesses around the world and a good command of English is an absolute essential for today’s high fliers. The ability to communicate well in both writing and speaking, is one of the keys to being successful at work.

With our help on this course, you will acquire the knowledge and skills needed both written and verbal to impress your boss, colleagues, customers, your family and friends.

Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to;

  • Recognising the Different Parts of Speech
  • Giving effective presentations
  • Understanding present, past and future verb tenses
  • Understanding the Active versus the Passive Voice and their uses in business
  • Improve understanding of Sentence Structure
  • Learn collocations - 50 common verb-noun phrases used in business
  • Understand the uses of countable and uncountable nouns, subject/verb agreement
  • Have learned about writing proposals
  • Have learned about formal and informal writing for emails
  • Analyse differences between Business Jargon and Plain English
  • Learn about Standard vs Singaporean English; identify many common mistakes/grey areas
  • Understand conditionals

Target Audience

All who wish to improve the way they communicate in English.

Duration

Two days

Curriculum

  • Training Needs Analysis
  • Getting to know each other
  • Recognising The Different Parts of Speech
  • Effective Presentations:
  • Grammar - Present Tenses
  • Grammar - Active versus Passive
  • Sentence Structure
  • Collocations - 50 Common Verb-Noun Phrases used in Business
  • Countable and Uncountable Nouns
  • Grammar - Future Tenses
  • Writing - Proposals
  • Email - Formal and Informal Writing
  • Subject / Verb Agreement
  • There Is / There Are With Some and Any
  • Grammar - Past Tenses
  • Grammar - Cause and Effect, Ability
  • Business Jargon versus Plain English
  • Standard versus Singaporean English
  • Grammar - Conditionals - If I Were You
  • Case Study and Presentation
  • Identifying Common Mistakes / Areas for Improvement

Methodology

Lecture with PowerPoint, white board, group work, pair work, individual exercises and feedback.

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