Your Professional English

This is an English course with a difference! Your Professional English will boost your intermediate English to a more advanced level, AND prepare you for all the new job opportunities. This course is specially designed for international students and people with plans to live and work overseas. With lessons on business English, employment vocabulary and useful phrases to use with clients, colleagues and management, this course will be your first step to success in the international job market.

Content:

Unit 1 – First steps to success

1. How to write your CV

2. How to write a cover letter

3. Navigating job websites and applying for a job

Unit 2 – Interview preparation

1. General tips and opening phrases

2. The most common questions

3. Talking about your English level

4. Closing phrases and following up

Unit 3 – Employment vocabulary

1. My secret to organising and effectively learning vocabulary

2. General employment vocabulary

3. Business English vocabulary

4. Business English idioms

5. Business English phrasal verbs

Unit 4 – Key communication skills

1. Writing emails

2. Phone conversations

3. Asking for help

4. Making suggestions

5. Dealing with complaints

Unit 5 – Meetings and presentations

1. Arranging meetings

2. Participating in meetings

3. Presenting ideas, numbers and statistics

4. Concluding meetings

Unit 6 – Leadership skills

1. Giving instructions

2. Summarising information

3. Negotiations

4. Conflict resolution

BONUS GRAMMAR UNITS – Six essential grammar lessons

1. Asking questions

2. Future tenses

3. Verbs with gerunds/infinitives

4. Narrative tenses

5. The passive

6. Reported speech