Занятие 6. Business travel

(активная форма проведения: групповая работа; обсуждение + интерактивная форма: ролевая игра)

Listening: Choosing a hotel for a meeting.

Speaking (role play): choosing hotel for an international meeting for twenty middle-ranking sales staff (convenience for airports; size and availability of meeting rooms; quality and availability of the rooms for the delegates; hotel amenities, availability of equipment, availability of business support, cost per delegate per day).

Writing: Making request and writing concisely. Finding shorter equivalents (make a telephone call – telephone – phone – call, etc). Requesting a service (different elements). Composing a message. Letter practice.

Занятие 7. Communication at work

(активная форма проведения: групповая работа; обсуждение + интерактивная форма: ролевая игра)

Speaking (discussion): Communication channels (face-to-face, written, electronic). The most appropriate in different situations.

Collocations: save, confidential, time, official, final, immediate, urgent.

Speaking (role play): conversation with a partner about his / her use of electronic mail (how often he / she uses it; what he / she finds it useful for; what he / she likes and dislikes about it).

Language in use: countable and uncountable nouns (a, an, the, each, every, a dozen of, a couple of; several various, all sorts of, all kinds of, hundreds of, thousands of, etc).

Listening: likes and dislikes about answering machines and mobile phones.

Speaking: telephoning (phones and numbers: phone, call and ring, numbers, doing things over the phone; getting through: phoning scenario, asking to speak to someone, voicemail; messages: giving and taking messages, spelling names, checking information; arrangements: making arrangements, closing the conversation, changing arrangements).

Writing: E-mail requesting information (layout, prepositions of place, sentence fragments, requests, letter practice).

Занятие 8. Health and safety

(активная форма проведения: групповая работа; обсуждение)

Health and safety issues – business vocabulary (repetitive strains and injuries; dangerous machinery; fire hazards; inadequate ventilation; trailing cables etc) - matching, questions, filling the gaps, etc.

Language in use: modals must; can; may; could; have to (ability; possibility; advice; obligation; lack of obligation; permission) - matching; finding the forms.

Reading: dangers from office equipment; health problems; work-related stress; safety legislation and legal requirements - matching, answering the questions; finding the words with similar meaning.

Speaking (discussion): dangers from office equipment; health problems; work-related stress; safety legislation and legal requirements.

Writing: a note on smoking policy using modals.

Speaking (role play – personnel department, CEO, lawyer): safety features, improving health and safety environment at work.

Writing: a safety notice (memo). Replacing phrases with shorter ones.