SYLLABUS OF BUSINESS WRITING &TELEPHONING & GRAMMAR IBEST English Center 25D Ngo Thi Nham St, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi 161 Chua Lang St, Dong Da, Hanoi www.ibest.edu.vn Contact: 043.944.9749 /043 944 0403 Objectives of the course Business letter: To understand the main content of an email and compose an appropriate response in a clear manner Comprehension and Pronunciation: To improve general comprehension through an emphasis on reading and listening exercises and to improve pronunciation through listening and speaking exercises Grammar: To better grammar through repetitious, controlled speaking and writing exercises that focus on a variety of situations that are designed to ingrain natural speaking patterns Lesson 1 – Business and Travel Reintroduction: explanation of course objectives Warm-up activity Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Activity: Business travel vocabulary and useful phrases, including questions in the present simple Role Play: Students write and role play different business travel scenarios using the vocabulary and phrases they have just learned Lesson 2 – Past simple Warm-up activity: Talking about the past Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 1-2 Reading and grammar lesson focused on the past tense Students speak using the past tense Optional activity: writing with the past simple Lesson 3 – Repeated actions in the past Warm-up activity: Talking about the past Grammar: Introduce talking about repeated actions in the past with the words “would” and “used to” Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 3-4 Lesson 4 – Past Continuous Warm-up activity: Talking about repeated actions in the past Reading activity focusing on general comprehension and the past continuous Grammar lesson: Past continuous Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Objectives of the course SYLLABUS FOR 36 HOUR LEARNING SYLLABUS OF BUSINESS WRITING & TELEPHONING & GRAMMAR IBEST English Center 25D Ngo Thi Nham St, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi 161 Chua Lang St, Dong Da, Hanoi www.ibest.edu.vn Contact: 043.944.9749 /043 944 0403 Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 5-6 Lesson 5 – Review of Grammar Warm-up: Ask students a variety of questions with different tenses that we have covered Grammar: Speaking exercises that require the students to choose the past simple, repeated actions in the past, or the past continuous (Optional: also include the present simple and present continuous so that students have more realistic practice when deciphering which tense to use) Lesson 6 – Summarizing Warm-up: Review of previous lesson Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 8-9 Explanation of summarizing and why it is important 3 Reading exercises: students read and then write individual summaries of the main ideas before comparing with a partner Lesson 7 – Oral Summaries Warm-up Review of writing summaries and grammar Listening exercises: Listening for main ideas and giving oral summaries (option: focus on exercises using the present simple, present continuous, past simple, repeated actions in the past, and past continuous to ensure students listen to what tense is being used and offer and natural response) Lesson 8 – Review of Summarizing Review of summarizing orally with listening exercises Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 10-11 Review of business travel scenarios Lesson 9 – Test over lessons 1-8 Listening and identify vowel sounds Listen for main ideas Read and summarize Listen and summarize Lesson 10 – Present Perfect Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep unit 12-13 Grammar: Present Perfect Lesson 11 – Future Tenses Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 15-16 Grammar: Present continuous, going to, and will exercises and when to use each Lesson 12 – Time Words and Time Clauses Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 17-18 Grammar: Time words and clauses Lesson 13 – Review of Present Perfect, Future, and Time Words and Clauses Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 19-20 Lesson 14 – Business Letter Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 21 Activity: Business Letter Writing SYLLABUS OF BUSINESS WRITING & TELEPHONING & GRAMMAR IBEST English Center 25D Ngo Thi Nham St, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi 161 Chua Lang St, Dong Da, Hanoi www.ibest.edu.vn Contact: 043.944.9749 /043 944 0403 Activities reviewing present perfect, future, and time words and clauses Lesson 15 – Past Perfect Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 30-31 Grammar: Past Perfect Lesson 16 – Reported Speech Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and listen for details Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 32-33 Grammar: Using past simple and past perfect to report speech in writing Lesson 17 – Relative Clauses Grammar lesson on relative clauses Writing activity using relative clauses Review of previous lessons to prepare for final test Lesson 18 – Final Test Listening for main ideas and listening for details Writing sample that incorporates the tenses learned from lessons 10-17