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Presentations |
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This course includes work in the following areas:
- Introduction/ Initial Preparation:
• Sharing past experience in presentation-giving
• Identifying problem areas
• Choosing presentation topics for application session
• Defining the objectives of a presentation (‘Why
am I giving this presentation?’)
- Preparing a Presentation
• Identifying the nature and expectations of your
audience
• Preparing for cross-cultural presentations
• Creating a structure
• Writing notes for presentations
- Preparing a Presentation
• Formality - written versus spoken language
• Practice of speaking from notes
• Choosing the right equipment
- Opening a Presentation
• Grabbing attention,
• Greeting the audience and introducing yourself
• Stating the purpose and giving an outline
- Content
• How to involve the audience
• Referring to visuals
• Vocabulary for moving from one topic to another
- Content
• Key words (finding word partnerships for your key
words)
• Vocabulary for referring to other parts of the talk
• Word families
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- Practice and Revision
• Practice of skills learned so far
• Sample presentations from the opening to the middle
- Visuals Aids
• Using graphs and charts
• Language for explaining trends
• Pronunciation practice focused on numbers and statistics
• Comparing and contrasting
- Summarising and Concluding
• Summarising clearly and concisely
• Making recommendations
• Concluding and thanking
- Dealing with Questions
• Inviting questions
• Clarifying points and questions
• Disagreeing tactfully
• Avoiding answering questions
- Presenting Yourself
• Body language
• using your voice
- Application
• Short presentations by participants (preparation
begun in first session)
• Analysis and evaluation
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This course includes work in the following areas:
- Definitions: What is a negotiation?
• Introduction
• Sharing past experiences of negotiating
• Identifying common negotiation situations
- Preparing to negotiate
• Identifying issues
• Identifying your interests
• Identifying the other party’s interests
• Identifying common ground
• Clarifying objectives
• Distinguishing between interests and positions
- Establishing rapport
• Welcoming visitors
• Cross-cultural negotiations
• Creating a good atmosphere
• Introducing yourself and your colleagues
• Making ‘small talk’
• Application – roleplay
- Beginning the negotiation
• Eliciting information from the other party;
• Question forms
• Agreeing agenda
• Explaining and clarifying
• Application - roleplay
- Making proposals:
• Asking for opinions
• Agreeing and disagreeing
• Giving reasons
• Making suggestions
• Responding
- Questions
• Importance of questions in negotiations
• Types of questions
• Forms of open/closed/probing/direct/indirect questions
• Responding to questions
• Avoiding a direct response
• Application - roleplay
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- Focus on listening:
• Identifying ‘signals’
• Exploring the subtleties of language
• Remaining positive
• Diplomatic language
- Language focus
• Focus on conditional statements
• Talking about hypothetical situations
- Bargaining
• Linking offers to conditions
• Making and obtaining concessions
• Soft, hard and principled negotiators.
- Settling:
• Agreeing
• Clarifying
• Understanding
• Arranging future action
• Ending the negotiation
- Body language
• Positive/Negative body language
• Gestures
• Mirroring
• Cultural differences
- Application and Analysis
• Participants engage in a series of negotiations
at varying levels of difficulty.
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This course includes work in the following areas:
- Preparing for meetings
• Defining the purpose
• Identifying different types of meetings –
planning, brainstorming, updating, problem-solving, present/exchange
information
• Focus on listening: listen to a sample meeting and
analyse
• Language focus: making arrangements
- Arranging Meetings
• Telephoning
• Writing short memoranda
• Formal v informal invitations to meetings
• Meetings preparation checklist
• Preparing an agenda
- At the meeting 1
• Do’s and don’ts of effective participation
• Focus on listening: active listening
• Effective note-taking
- At the meeting 2
• Interrupting
• Asking for clarification
• Expressing opinions and making suggestions
• Agreeing and disagreeing
- At the meeting 3:
• Focus on questions: Question forms
• Open-ended and closed questions
• Asking positive questions
• Being diplomatic
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- Chairing a meeting:
• Role of the chair
• Introducing a meeting
• Stating the purpose and setting the ground rules
• Managing the meeting
• Encouraging participation and dealing with conflict
• Closing the meeting
- Intercultural meetings
• Building rapport
• Introducing yourself and your colleagues
• Making ‘small talk’
• Modifying language
• Signaling
• Checklist for intercultural meetings
- Formal meetings
• Planning a formal meeting
o Preparing agenda
o Motions, proposals and amendments
o Voting
o Speaking through the Chair
o Focus on formal language
- After the meeting
o Writing minutes of a meeting
o Uses of action plan
o Evaluation checklists
- Application and Analysis
o Roleplay meeting (preparation begun in first session and
continued throughout);
o Analysis of progress and achievement
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This course includes work in the following areas:
- Introduction: Preparing to Write
o Identifying problem areas for students
o Preparatory questions:
i. Who is the reader?
ii. Why do I need to write?
iii. What form do I use – letter/email/memo/fax/email
- Brainstorming and functions - focus on useful phrases
o Brainstorm effectively for a useful outline
o Phrases for making reference/recommendations and giving
opinions
o Phrases for generalizing and explaining
o Phrases for contrasting, giving examples, sequencing and
listing, stating conclusions and summarizing
- Writing emails and memos
o Layout of emails and memos
o Focus on informal polite language
o People’s names and how to use them
o Application – produce an effective reply to a fax
o Feedback
- Writing a formal letter: focus on tone
o Layout of a formal business letter
o Focus on formal language: listening/reading exercise
o Phrases to begin and end letters
o Strong, neutral and tentative tone
o Application – produce an effective formal letter
o Feedback
- Focus on listening
o Effective note-taking
o How to produce effective minutes/reports from your notes
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- Grammar: Focus on students work
o Analysis and discussion of students’ own work
o Grammar focus for common difficulties
o Analysis of common errors
o Feedback
- Report writing
o Structure/layout of reports
o Summarising
o Planning, writing and editing a report
o Application: authentic situation, report to be produced
o Feedback
- Using and interpreting graphs and charts
o Language for describing graphs and charts
o Language for describing change
o Application:
- Cohesion
o Connectors for adding points and giving reasons
o Sequencing ideas
o Writing a good paragraph
o Linking paragraphs
o Headings and sub-headings
- Review
o Sample letters
o Feedback on work produced
o Revision
o Questions and Answers
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