English with Confidence - Course Content
Activate the English you already have
You know more English than you use. At the CAE Professional Centre we will activate that hidden knowledge and add to it with new professional language.
Professional Skills
Typical Topic Areas:
- Presentations
- Negotiations
- Meetings
- Telephoning
- E-mails
- Formal letter writing
- Report writing
- Minute taking
- Memos
- Study skills
- Formal v. informal English
- Associated professional vocabulary
Speaking
- In specific professional situations
- In general situations
- Discussion and associated vocabulary
- Simulations/role play
- Functional English
- Pronunciation practice
Listening and video work
- Commercially-available recorded material
- Self-generated recorded material
- TV
- Radio
- DVD
- Internet
Grammar
- Tensing
- Conditionals
- Future forms
- Modality
- Question forms
- Other aspects of syntax
Writing
- Professional tasks
- General tasks
- Tone
- Clarity
- Appropriateness
- Cohesion
Social English
- Small talk
- Situational English
- Conversational English
- Appropriateness
- Building rapport
