Lecture1

English LanguageElementary

Introduction

• Wednesdays from 14.00-16.00• Business English• Communicative methodological approach• Questions or concerns: [email protected]

Syllabus and Course material

• Elementary I• New Market Leader 1:

“Used by students preparing for a career in Business or those who are already in business wishing to enhance their communication skills”

Lesson plan

• 5 Units now: 2 lectures per unit• 5 Units in Semester 2• Additional material: slides and handouts• Business-related subjects:

1) Introductions

2) Work and leisure

3) Problems

4) Travel

5) Food and entertaining

Icebreakers: Getting to know each other

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Class discussion

• “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”

• Context social norms, cultural clash (?): business relation

1) Formal - informal

2) Rank

3) Present – absent

4) Use key phrases

Key Phrases

BASIC INTRODUCTION:

Hello, what is your name?

My name is…

What is your position in the company?

I am the……., What do you do in your institution?

FURTHER INTERACTION:

Telling vs. asking

listening

Business introductions

• Activity: describe yourself by using these key phrases

TO BE + Describing Others

TO BE1) Simple questions:

- Is he going on a trip?

2) The linking and existential “to be”

-There is a lot of snow.

3) Tag questions with “to be”

-He isn’t going, is he?

TO BE

SINGULAR PLURAL

I AM WE ARE

YOU ARE YOU ARE

HE/ SHE IS THEY ARE

• Exercise: handout, fill in the correct form• ACTIVITY: Ask questions about your partner while using

this tense• Describe someone from class while using the TO BE verb

Articles: a/an

A DOG – AN ELEPHANT

Articles: A - AN

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Articles a/an

• Articles: definite and indefinite (the/that vs. a/an/any)• Non-specific member of the group• Non-particular member of the group• “I don’t have a specific one in mind”• I want to see the movie vs. I want to see a movie• Sounds:

“A” before a consonant words

“AN” before vowel words

Wh-questions

• Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?• Cause INVERSION: change of Subject and Object• Inversion does not occur in Albanian

Wh-questions

• Who = person

-Who is your teacher?• What = thing

-What is your favourite subject at school?• When = time

-When will you go to Spain?• Where = place

-Where is China?• How = description

-How does she go to work?

EXERCISE

Recapitulation

• Presenting yourself: key phrases • To be• Articles• Wh-questions