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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Spoken English for the Workplace 1
Start Date:Location:
 2010-01-09 2:30pm-5:30pmSaturday Book this course
 
Price: $2880 Duration: 30 hours 
Overview
Who is it for?
Spoken English for the Workplace 1 is suitable for you if you have an intermediate level of English. You want to be able to speak in English with colleagues and clients with greater confidence and in a wide variety of different workplace situations.
Lower Intermediate / Support Staff
Industry: All
What will I learn?
You will have lots of opportunities to practise listening to communication in a variety of real workplace situations. You will build your ability to use new vocabulary and expressions in motivating, practical speaking activities.

You will develop your ability to:
- communicate with greater confidence and fluency
- speak with fewer grammatical mistakes to avoid misunderstandings
- build your vocabulary so that you can talk about more topics
- improve your pronunciation in English to be more easily understood.
Course Topics
Spoken English for the Workplace 1 (10 weeks)
- socialising in work situations
- discussing job descriptions and work responsibilities
- comparing features of products; requesting new equipment
- making decisions with colleagues
- making telephone calls
- problem-solving
Remarks
The lists of contents give examples of the topics included in each module.

Take this course as part of a package to qualify for funding under the Continuing Education Fund.