This course is designed for students with a good level of English who want to review and consolidate their grammar, and improve the speaking skills. The focus of the course is business and business travel. It follows someone arranging a visit to a trade fair and actually making the trip.

In the course you will practise:

Speaking - you copy the teachers and improve your pronunciation of sounds and words. We work particularly to make the rhythm and music of your speaking better so that you are easier to understand. You will do the same sort of exercises in your speaking lesson, but with the teacher listening and correcting you.

Listening - you have to listen carefully in all your lessons. Sometimes you have to understand the teachers, who speak carefully for you, but sometimes you have to listen to people speaking in real situations. They often speak more quickly, and you learn to understand real English. You also have listening comprehension exercises to do.

Grammar - in this course you will study uses of the present, present continuous, present perfect, future and past tenses. You'll work particularly on idioms and phrasal verbs used in the fields of business and travel. For more details, see the weekly summary below.

Vocabulary - this course focuses on the language of business and travel.

Writing - you practise punctuation, writing in full sentences, and using abbreviations.

Reading - you practise reading aloud in the lessons, and do some reading comprehension exercises for your homework.

Weekly grammar summary:

• Week 1: punctuation; question forms in the present tense; intonation

• Week 2: parts of speech; need and must; numbers; months

• Week 3: comparative and superlatives; telling the time; tenses with conjunctions of time: before, after, as soon as

• Week 4: question tags; somewhere, anywhere; identifying tenses and tense review

• Week 5: past tense; by himself, yourself; future tenses

• Week 6: present perfect, using 'have'; past participles

• Week 7: for/ since; subject, object and possessive pronouns

• Week 8: tense review; emotional exclamations; phrasal verbs

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