1. English Language
Elementary

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Wednesdays from 14.00-16.00
Business English
Communicative methodological approach
Questions or concerns: uranela.demaj@universum-ks.org
Introduction

3. • 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”
Syllabus and Course
material

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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
Lesson plan

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Icebreakers: Getting to
know each other

6. • “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
Class discussion

7. 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
Key Phrases

8. • Activity: describe yourself by using these key phrases
Business introductions

9. TO BE
1) 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 + Describing Others

10. 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
TO BE

11. A DOG – AN ELEPHANT
Articles: a/an

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Articles: A - AN

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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
Articles a/an

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

15. • 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
Wh-questions

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