Advanced 1

# hours: custom-designed

General objective

Participants will be more comfortable in familiar and routine work settings. They will speak coherently linking sentences together smoothly. Their command of the past, present and future verb tenses will allow them to relate events in good chronological order. They will exhibit a good, although not perfect, command of the most frequently used grammatical constructions.

Training objectives

• argue
• express an idea
• express and understand opinions by indicating agreement or disagreement
• justify reasons or demand justifications
• discuss more complex hypothetical situations
• ask information
• provide accurate narrations and descriptions

Grammatical objectives

• review of past tenses, future, conditional, subjunctive, imperative
• past subjunctive
• review of pronouns: objects, relative, demonstrative, possessive
• review of hypothesis clauses
• other elements of grammar will be reviewed

Vocabulary

• company policy
• terms of tact and diplomacy
• formal meeting protocol
• idiomatic expressions
• current affairs