Semana 4 Advanced

ENGLISH – ADVANCED+ LEVEL

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ADVANCED+ SEMANA 4 8H47

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Scopes and Sequences ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 How to Use This Document....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 ADVANCED + - PART 2............................................................................................................................................................................................ 4


How to Use This Document The goal of this document is to help you find your way around the TELL ME MORE content and to give you the information you need to direct Learners to the appropriate lesson.

1. Here you’ll find the Language Program’s title, length, and description.

2. Each Language Program contains several lessons. The title and length of each lesson can be found here.

3. A variety of information is available for each lesson, such as: - the lesson objectives - the lexical groups - the grammar, phonetics, or cultural concepts


ADVANCED + - PART 2

The Advanced+ is intended for students who already have solid language skills in everyday language and/or business language. It aims at placing the students in authentic communication situations inside a company so that they can deepen their knowledge of the target language. The situations addressed include overseas business travel, presenting a product, or client relations.

7. Artistic Differences - 02:56

Lesson Objectives - Reaching a compromise with a cooperative client

Targeted Skills - Listening - Speaking - Writing

Language Functions

- Devaluing someone's ideas diplomatically - Warning someone about something - Explaining the reasoning behind a choice - Making a suggestion

Lexical Groups - Results of reflection (to go with, to come to a decision, to settle on, ...) - Negotiation (to meet halfway, to find middle ground, to give in, ...) - Warnings (to forewarn, to admonish, to put someone on guard, ...) - Risks (susceptible, ramification, vulnerable, ...)

Vocabulary - Rhetoric - Cause and consequence

Grammar - Diplomatic constructions - Goal and consequence

Phonetics - Intonation and stress

Language & Culture

- Diplomatic advice

8. A Convincing Argument - 01:35

Lesson Objectives - Persuading a reluctant client to do something


Language Functions

- Praising someone or something - Persuading someone of something - Relaying the consequences of a decision

Lexical Groups - Value judgment (sound, valid, irrefutable, ...) - Finance (bond, fluctuation, to outpace, ...) - Specification of degree (by and large, considerably, immeasurable, ...) - Opportunities (to jump at, to pass up, to lose out, ...)

Vocabulary - Emphasis - Rhetoric

Grammar - Alternate conditional forms


9. Sales Training Analysis - 01:34

Lesson Objectives - Analyzing a client's needs and using arguments to recommend solutions


Language Functions

- Identifying constraints - Asking for further details - Saying what something entails - Weighing pros & cons - Arguing in favor of something

Lexical Groups - Communication (to push for, to endorse, to lean toward, ...) - Clauses & conditions (must-have, bottom line, leeway, ...) - Details & clarification (to dot the i's and cross the t's, to itemize, to spell out, ...) - Advice and recommendations (to call for, to do with, to entail, ...) - Reports & summaries (naturally, obviously, to appear, ...) - Advantages and disadvantages (to factor in, detriment, credence, ...)

Vocabulary - Concession and opposition

Grammar - Goal and consequence

10. Sales Training Negotiation - 02:42

Lesson Objectives - Negotiating the conditions of a contract (sales, services, partnerships, etc.) with cooperative suppliers


Language Functions

- Negotiating an agreement - Supporting one's refusal diplomatically - Going back to something - Negotiating a deadline

Lexical Groups - Negotiation (to tailor, win-win, vested interest, ...) - Polite expressions (regrettably, unfortunately, sorry to say, ...) - Professional interaction (to pick up on, to backtrack, concerning, ...) - Description of time (lengthy, in good time, to hold off, ...) - Specification of degree (thereabouts, roughly, hazy, ...)

Vocabulary - Deadlines

Grammar - Approximation - Alternate conditional forms

Phonetics - Intonation and stress

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