Business English - 1st Step (Council of Europe's LIV. A2 B1; Trinity's LIV. 7)

Understand and use expressions characteristic of the language used in everyday exchanges in the business environment, preparing to deal with professional relationships by using English effectively and concretely.

- PART 1: Introduction to the course, implementing communication fluency, leading discussions and social conversations, getting to know a person, discussions, role plays and listening sessions. Participants will follow the following topics: review of verbal declensions the modal verbs and their usage;
- PART 2: meetings, negotiation, business ethics, complaints and critcisms, giving and expressing opinions, refining pre-existing writing skills. Participants will follow the following topics: practical use of the conditional of type 1 and type 2, idiomatic expressions, "Phrasal Verbs" deepening to express "obligations" and "necessities," review of future tenses, review of relative pronouns, modal verb tenses: use and review, compatives and superlatives, giving advice/suggestions and making assumptions, proposing solutions and offering help;
- PART 3: Making presentations, team building, group work and communication, refining pre-existing writing skills, role plays. Improve one's vocabulary and use of terms, develop ability to give instructions, advice and prohibitions, language used in meetings, agreeing or disagreeing, negotiating, develop ability to identify errors, practice session in using conditional sentences to express what might happen;
- PART 4:, describing ideas and situations, reports and summaries, business ethics, culture perception and awareness, discussions, role plays and listening sessions. Participants will follow the following topics: the Passive, "Reported Speech," prepositions, idiomatic expressions, vocabulary building.