Curso de

Corporate English

Acquire the necessary skills to resolve company-specific situations in English correctly and fluently, developing oral and written skills through a series of lessons focusing on typical business situations. Students will cover the areas of grammar and vocabulary essential to carry out basic tasks such as describing a company's structure and physical appearance, as well as talk about the different departments and give directions around a building while reviewing prepositions of place, quantifiers and countable and uncountable nouns. Telephoning forms an integral part of business and this is reflected in the unit on telephone communication. Areas covered are: leaving and receiving voice messages, making plans as well as asking for and giving information. There is a review of grammatical structures such as the present perfect, various future tenses, as well as the modal verbs can and can't.

There is also a focus on common errors and false friends which will help students to identify their weak spots and to improve their accuracy and avoid making typical mistakes Degrees of formality such as expressions, tone and register is covered for oral and written communication. Students will review common ways of greeting by seeing and hearing a variety of examples of conversations and business correspondence.

This topic is closely linked to that of business trips, another area covered on this course. Students will see common expressions to use when travelling as well as ways to deal with other situations that can arise such as socialising and introducing people.