English for Business - Intermediate 1 (A2/B1)

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Introducing Yourself and Your Company
(9 hours 15 minutes)

Review basic skills with this first module of units. This module is in the Tell Me More English - Professional Situations A1/A2 program.

Unit 1. First meeting

• Greetings, introductions, departures
• Grammar. Subject pronouns, the verb "to be," definite and indefinite articles, names of countries, capitalization

Unit 2.Cultural excursion

Unit 3. Meeting people

• Meet an executive and talk about your job.
• Grammar. The simple present, contractions with "to be," the difference between "a" and "an"

Unit 4. Numbers and money

• Describe quantities, amounts and sizes.
• Grammar. Possessive adjectives, "how much," "how many," "some" and "any"

Unit 5. Cultural excursion

Unit 6. An interview

• Interview for a management position, discuss past experience, education and skills.
• Grammar. Construction of the preterite, "to be" and "to have," "can"

Unit 7. First Day at Work

• Greeting and meeting colleagues, asking for information
• Grammar. The possessive, prepositions of place

Unit 8. Cultural excursion

Unit 9. Meeting the Boss

• Meet the boss and discuss your projects.
• Grammar. The simple present, "would like"

Unit 10. Presenting your Job

• Talk about your position, tasks and workday.
• Grammar. Adverbs of time, possessive adjectives.

On a Business Trip
(4 hours and 15 minutes)

This module allows you to practice presenting your career history simply and to use courteous forms of address.

Unit 1. Introductions

• Greetings, introductions, identifying oneself.
  
• Grammar. Definite and indefinite articles, "a" and "an," "to be," "to have"

Unit 2. A City Tour

• Talk about city and buildings.
• Grammar. Interrogatives, demonstratives, expressions of place

Congratulations! Now you may return to your "My Training" tab and set your program to a new level, "Proficient, B2." The following module is the first set of lessons in your new level.

Client and Business Partner Relations 2
(9 hours and 30 minutes)

With this module you will recycle familiar structures and vocabulary and acquire new ones by practicing language for practical situations: welcoming visitors, making suggestions and planning meetings, making a sale or giving instructions on the telephone or by e-mail.

You will be able to converse on these topics with someone who speaks with a standard accent at a moderate pace.

Unit 1. The Welcome Desk

• Welcoming a visitor with polite forms of address.
• Vocabulary. Greetings, talking about availability, make a polite offer.
• Grammar. Modal verbs and future tense.
• Phonetics. "W" as in "Wednesday"
• "r" as in "September"

Unit 2. Appointment Setup

• Arrange and confirm a meeting, discuss dates and times, ask someone to wait
• Vocabulary. Availability, polite expressions.
• Grammar. Possessive adjective, object pronouns
• Language and culture. Telephone calls, "shall"

Unit 3. Itinerary Organization

• Making suggestions to clients concerning their needs.
• Vocabulary. Advising, warning and discussing conditions.
• Grammar. Past subjunctive, present conditional, future, modals, expressions of condition
• Phonetics. "oo" as in "book," "r" in "September"

Unit 4. Before the Visit

• Guide a group, give instructions and warnings, grant permission or talk about obligation.
• Vocabulary. Advice, warnings, cautions
• Grammar. Negative imperative, modal verbs
• Phonetics. "ay" as in "Sunday"
• "a" as in "Saturday" and "about"

Unit 5. Security Rules

• Writing an e-mail with instructions.
• Grammar. Negative and affirmative imperatives.

Unit 6. Sales Contact

• Establish contacts for collaboration.
• Introduce oneself in a professional context.
• Grammar. Obligation, "should," "ought to," "may" or "might"
• Phonetics. "ay" as in "Sunday," "ll" as in "hello," "a" as in "March"

Unit 7. Prospective customer

• Describe someone or something positively.
• Grammar. Sequence of tenses with "if"
• Phonetics. "P" as in "pen," "d" as in "day," and "v" as in "seventy"

Unit 8. Contract Settlements

• Understanding a condition in a contract and clarifying ambiguous points.
• Vocabulary. Prices and payments, "within"
• Grammar. Continue studying sequence of tenses with "if"

Unit 9. Virtual Conversation - Return a Product.

• Express dissatisfaction and reasons for a refund

Professional Interaction II
(6 hours)

Unit 1. Company History

• Describe your company in general terms.
• Vocabulary. Company founding and growth.
• Grammar. Irregular verbs in preterite, future tense
• Phonetics. "f" in "five," "ck" in "black" and "ee" in "eighteen"

Unit 2. Job Application

• Reading skills for understanding a basic document
• Vocabulary. Education and training

Unit 3. Letter of Recommendation

• Reading and understanding a letter of recommendation
• Vocabulary. Describing someone's qualities and characteristics

Unit 4. Job Interview

• Talk about your experience and education, express plans, wishes and limitations
• Vocabulary. Career stages, value judgements
• Grammar. Past tenses, relative pronouns, "would like" to express wishes, verb and infinitive clause, expressions of preference

Unit 5. Letter to Human Resources

• Understand a cover letter.
• Vocabulary. Personal characteristics.

Unit 6. About the Project

• Exchange information about a project with a colleague
• Vocabulary. Ask for advice and give opinions, "not bad"
• Grammar. Direct and indirect questions, interrogative words, "that" with dependent clauses, sequence of tenses
• Phonetics. "x" in "sixteen," "s" in "please"

Unit 7. Company Presentation

• Speak about current events in your company. Describe the company and talk about objectives.
• Vocabulary. Company structure, corporate strategy.
• Grammar. Approximation.
• Phonetics. "M" as in "Monday," "n" as in "January"

Unit 8. Virtual conversation. Join a company team.

• Talking about pastimes

The activities listed above will take about 30 hours to complete. Choose an additional 6 hours of practice with Tell Me More from the video program or additional units on Grammar, Vocabulary or Workshops, all available from the "My Training" tab on your TMM homepage. Your My Language Requirement instructor will be happy to help you choose an appropriate activity, if you like.

Remember, after 18 hours of practice you will be able to take the Midterm Assessment. At the end of the course you will take the Language Achievement Test to discover your new proficiency level.