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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Grammar Solutions
Start Date:Location:
 2010-01-08 7:00pm-10:00pmFriday Book this course
 
Price: $2880 Duration: 30 hours 
Overview
Who is it for?
You are quite fluent at intermediate level in your speaking and writing. This course will help you want to become a more accurate user of English in your writing and speaking.

However, you want to become more aware of problem grammatical errors so that your language, especially your writing, creates a better impression and is more effective.

This course will help you be ready to begin the CPBE BEC 1 Preliminary preparation course with more confidence.
Lower Intermediate / Support Staff
Industry: All
What will I learn?
You will learn to:
- be more aware of accuracy issues in your writing and speaking
- make the relationships and logical connections in your language clearer
- improve your ability to correct and edit your own writing

The trainer will help you to understand English language patterns, and will give you (i)clear explanations, (ii)suggestions of ways to remember patterns and rules and (iii)lots of class and homework practice activities.
Course Topics
- correct basic sentence structure
- referring to hypothetical events
- write complete sentences and use clauses to create correct complex sentences
- modal verbs: communicating attitude (degrees of certainty and obligation or necessity)
- refer to events in the past, present and future clearly (tenses)
- appropriate use of passive and active voice
- vocabulary and grammatical accuracy
- functional language patterns (especially in business situations)

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