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Context: The course is based in the Human Resources department in a large e-learning company based in Brighton. Sue Riding, the Head of Department, presents various key aspects of her job.
Vocabulary areas: the course presents the language of personnel management, applications and interviews, promotion, appraisal, maternity, training and health.
In the course you will practise:
Week 1
- Content: Sue introduces herself, her company and her job. Introduces present recruitment needs and the vacancy to be filled.
- Grammar: Present/passive tenses.
- Functional focus: Describing company and job, talking about responsibilities.
Week 2
- Content: Sue talks about the shortlist.
- Grammar: Tenses, language of hypothesis.
- Functional focus: Interviewing
Week 3
- Content: Sue assesses the interviews and announces the appointment.
- Grammar: Language of obligation / passives
- Functional focus: Language of obligation / passives, evaluation
Week 4
- Content: Promotion philosophy and system in the company.
- Grammar: Tenses, modals, conditionals, passives
- Functional focus: Speculation, diplomacy, enthusiasm
Week 5
- Content: The appraisal system.
- Grammar: Tenses: wishes and regrets, future
- Functional focus: Description, evaluating, speculating, hopes ambitions, tact and diplomacy
Week 6
- Content: A company trainer talks about his programme.
- Grammar: Conditionals, passives, inf/…ing forms
- Functional focus: Negotiating, describing
Week 7
- Content: Aspects of Health & Safety; the company's contingencies for staff welfare sick/ maternity leave etc.
- Grammar: Obligation, passives, conditionals
- Functional focus: Regulations
Week 8
- Content: Sue sums up the previous units as being representative of her job.
- Grammar: All
- Functional focus: All
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