TEACHER: JORGE RODRIGUEZ R.

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LEARNING KNOWLEDGE

 Understand the English Grammar concepts necessary to communicate

properly, efficiently and within the standards set up by the European
Frame of Reference for the Learning and Teaching of Languages.

CEFR LEVEL B1

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At level B1 students should be able to maintain interaction and get across

what they want to express in a range of contexts.
 Be able to follow the main points of extended discussion around them
and provided that speech is clearly articulated in standard dialect.
 The second feature is the ability to cope flexibly with problems in
everyday life, for example coping with less routine situations on public
transport; dealing with most situations likely to arise when making
travel arrangements through an agent or when actually travelling;
entering unprepared into conversations on familiar topics.
 The learned SKILLS should be applied in the four competences used to
communicate in English at every stage of your learning process:

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 LISTENING

 Relate the listening activities such as videos, audios,

conversational activities etc., in accordance to the grammar
concepts or topics seen in class, discussed in pair group activities
or independent study activities, assisted by interactive platforms
including multiple tools on line.

 The student should be able to understand the main points of clear

standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in
work, school, leisure, etc.

 The student (s) can understand the main point of many radio or
TV programmers on current affairs or topics of personal or
professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and
clear.

READING

 Analyze and comprehend the speech elements used in every

sentence structure, logical sense, new vocabulary, technical
terminology, business idioms, collocations, idiomatic expressions
etc.
 Students should be able to understand factual texts on subjects
related to their interests that consist mainly of high frequency every
day or job-related language.
 They should be capable to recognize significant points in
straightforward newspaper articles on familiar subjects and can
understand the description of events feelings and wishes.

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 WRITING

 Understand and apply the grammar rules in the proper manner and
under situations that either call for more formality or informality, style,
business contexts, everyday situations and casual contexts etc.
 Students at this level can write simple texts on topics which are familiar
or of personal interest by linking a series of shorter discrete elements
into a linear sequence.
 They can write personal letters describing events, experiences and
impressions.

SPEAKING

 Should be able to express the main point they want to make

comprehensibly and keep going comprehensibly, even though they
may have to pause for grammatical and lexical planning and repair,
especially in longer stretches of free production.
 Students at this level should exploit a wide range of simple language
to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling.
 They can enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are
familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g. family,
hobbies, work, travel and current events).
 They can keep going comprehensibly in order to describe experiences
and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and can briefly give reasons
and explanations for opinions and plans.
 They are able to narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or film
and describe reactions.

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 AGENDA

DATE

TOPIC:

BUSINESS ENGLISH

LEVEL:

UPPER INTERMEDIATE

GRAMMAR CONCEPTS:

 Introduction

 Concepts and
Summary
 Exercises

 Pair Group
Activities

 Projects and
Case Studies

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BUSINESS CONCEPTS:

THEME OBJECTIVE ACTIVITY

Unit 1
Communication

Unit 2
International Marketing

Unit 3
Building Relationships

Unit 4
Success

Unit 5
Job Satisfaction

Unit 6
Risk

Unit 7
E-commerce

Revision Unit A

RESOURCES:
TEDTALKS INSTITUTE
Video series online providing a variety of business topics and solutions by experts in
different fields.
Business Text books used in the business field written by experts such as:

 International Management  Business Result Series

Financial Times. Publishing Oxford Publishing Inc.
 Market Leader Series  Benchmark Cambridge Publishing
Pearson Publishing Inc. Cambridge Publishing Inc.

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 VERB FORMS LOW INTERMEDIATE HIGH

Wh- and Yes/No

Questions in present
/past

Complex question tags

Past continuous

Used to

Would expressing
habit in the past

Past perfect

Future time (will & going

to)

Future continuous

Present perfect

Present perfect vs.

past simple

Present perfect
continuous

Zero and first

conditional

Second and third

conditional

Phrasal Verbs

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Extended phrasal
verbs

Passives

Simple passive

Reported speech
(range of tenses)

Modals: Possibility

Might, may, will,

probably

Must/can’t (deduction)

Modals: Obligation &

Necessity
Must/have to
Ought to

Need to

Modals: Past
Should have,
Might have/etc.

Broad range (e.g. all

the, most, both)

Collocation of
adjectives

Adverbial phrases of
time

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Place and frequency

Adjectives
vs. adverbs

Adverbial phrases of
degree/extent, probability

Comparative and
superlative form of
adverbs

VOCABULARY

 Things in the town, shops and

shopping Travel and services
vocabulary Contrasting
opinions (on the one hand…)
 Collocations
 Colloquial language

TOPICS

 Leisure activities  News, lifestyles and current

 Education affairs
 Film  Media
 Books and literature