Intermediate 2

# hours: 30

General objective

Participants will be able to handle a variety of basic communicative tasks in the past, present and future tenses. They will participate in simple conversations on topics beyond their most immediate needs using longer sentences. As well as face-to-face conversations, they will understand short routine telephone conversations, simple announcements and reports over the media.

Training objectives

• express needs at work
• talk about plans
• give, request and understand simple transactions
• express frustration
• ask for information
• understand acceptance or refusal of advice
• conduct simple transactions
• talk about past and future requests

Grammatical objectives

• definite past; future; imperfect
• expressions for a request
• comparison of adverbs and adjectives
• interrogative adjectives and pronouns
• pronominal verbs (compound tense)
• object pronouns
• complex prepositions

Vocabulary

• divisions / sections / branches
• public institutions and services
• services of organization
• commercial establishments
• idiomatic expressions
• terms of transaction