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English for Executives and Professionals

Sample Platinum English Timetable - Finance

 

Lesson

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

 

FRIDAY

 

9:00- 10:50

Skill: Speaking/Listening

Introductions.

Professional profiles. Language assessment. Grammar review. Fine-tune course content

 

Input: Vocabulary & Language of Presentations.

Skill: Speaking/Listening

Mini-presentation on company structure, job responsibilities.

Questions from group.

Oral feedback

Skill: Speaking

Expressing facts & figures, describing graphs & trends. Remedial pronunciation work.

Skill: Speaking

Meetings and Negotiations. Chairing, participating & contributing. Giving/ asking for opinions. Turn-taking & interrupting. Summarising & concluding.

Topic Lesson

Input: Vocabulary

Skill: Listening to short DVD presentation. Note-taking, group discussion. Oral and written consolidation of week's vocabulary, function and grammar.

 

11:10- 12:00

Topic Lesson

Input: Vocabulary

Skill:

Reading /Speaking

Input: Grammar

Remedial work based on presentation & Interrogative forms

Telephoning:

Making contact, checking & confirming information.

Grammar review: Conditionals and Modals

Skill: Speaking/Listening

Video recording of prepared individual Presentations of group members

 

12:10- 13:00

Skill: Speaking

Fluency practice, feedback and remedial work on grammar and pronunciation

Topic Lesson

Input: Vocabulary

Skill: Reading

Vocabulary, word families.

 

Role Play: Telephoning Classroom practice following by authentic phone call practice.

 

Simulation:

Inter-Departmental Meeting. Feedback:

Grammar and pronunciation remedial work

Continuation of above

 

 

Group Lunch

 

LUNCH

 

13:50- 14:40

 

Skill: Listening

TV financial programme:

Note-taking

Learner training: Using a mono-lingual dictionary, vocabulary files, storage and retrieval

Topic Lesson

Skill: Writing

Business correspondence Emails.

Skill: Speaking/Listening

Conference telephone calls.

Skill: Speaking

Group viewing of videoed presentations.

 

 

14:55-

15:45

Skill: Speaking

Summarising information, comparing data, agreeing and disagreeing

 

Skill: Speaking

Social English in a business context.

Role Play: Entertaining clients

Financial correspondence

Invoices, terms and conditions, debts and

follow-up

 

Professional visit to Financial Institution.

 

Social English practice

 

Group discussion on performance.

 

Error analysis and oral feedback.

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