Intermediate 3

# hours: 30

General objective

Participants will be able to understand and produce, orally and in writing, less routine messages on concrete subjects that may include opinions and arguments relating to less familiar work situations. They will produce discussions with more details in the past, present and future tenses. They will be able to refer to topics pertaining to different times and places.

Training objectives

• express oppositions
• express emotions
• deal with simple work-related problems
• discuss simple hypothetical situations
• explain simple procedures
• understand information through media
• explain, justify one’s reasons
• talk about possibility, probability and predictability
• respond to complaints
• understand most correspondence and simple, work-related documents
• elaborate procedures and decisions to over-the-counter customers

Grammatical objectives

• past tenses, subjunctive, pluperfect, conditional
• object pronouns
• demonstrative pronouns
• negation (synthesis)
• relative pronouns
• impersonal expressions
• hypothesis clauses

Vocabulary

• business practices
• education
• consumer services and issues
• idiomatic expressions
• communications and technology
• work related