English Conversations 2

What are some things in your daily life that are given and you have never considered changing? Would you ever think of changing traffic lights? If yes, how? What is an unusual circumstance/ discovery you have made in one of your travels?  VOCABULARY

How many interviews have you attended during your working life? Before attending an interview, it's worth...  Gerund and infinitive Activities  ATTITUDES Prepare a talk of 3 min on one of the topics below about your working life.  Use infinitives and gerunds to express yourself  1. When I retire, I plan...  2 I think I'm quite good at ...  4. My job involves...  5. When speaking English, I often have difficulty...  6. At work, I feel satisfied if I manage...  7. For my summer holiday this year I am considering...  8. If I was offered more money, I would be willing...  9. The most challenging thing about starting a new job is getting used to...  10. I get annoyed with colleagues if they fail... LANGUAGE What questions would you ask the owner company spokesperson were you a journalist? Look at these  indirect and tag questions Could you tell me how this happened? This isn't the first time this particular ship has had an acc...

  What does this quotation mean to you? Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans -John Lennon Work in numbers How many jobs do you expect to do in your life? At what age do you expect to stop working? In 15 years' time will you be working more or less than now? VOCABULARY Underline the best word to complete the sentence Gerund and infinitive Activities  ATTITUDES Prepare a talk of 3 min on one of the topics below about your working life.  Use infinitives and gerunds to express yourself  1. When I retire, I plan...  2 I think I'm quite good at ...  3 Before attending an interview, it's worth...  4. My job involves...  5. When speaking English, I often have difficulty...  6. At work, I feel satisfied if I manage...  7. For my summer holiday this year I am considering...  8. If I was offered more money, I would be willing...  9. The most challenging thing about starting a new job is getting used to......

Do you enjoy telling stories? What kinds?   How important is storytelling in your culture?   Are storytelling traditions a thing of the past or should they be preserved for future generations?   Watch Daveed Diggs acceptance speech in Tony Awards. What do you notice about his use of a story?   Read  the article on business storytelling here . FOCUS ON OWN IT! Now, using the tips from the article, turn your childhood story into an inspirational one to promote your company's message.

 Look at the lyra bird from Australia. What can it do from 1-5? 1. Shake 70% off its feathers in one day. 2. It can eat up to 10 times its mass in food in a meal. 3. Its skin releases a natural sunscreen that prevents it from getting sunburned. 4. It can reproduce almost any sound in its environment.    Practice prepositions https://create.kahoot.it/share/prepositions-advanced/20ca120f-311c-4ae7-a6f9-30c426e8afb5 Circle all the /dj/, /tj/ and /sh/ sounds in the tongue twisters (1-8).  Practise saying the tongue twisters in pairs.  1. I'm= sure 1 saw Sheila selling seashells on the seashore, but I can't be sure she sold seashore shells.  2. Julia, George, Jean and Joan joyfully jumped down the jagged hill.  3. Chester the Cheetah chewed a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese.  4. Fresh fried fish,  Fish fresh fried,  Fried fish fresh,  Fish fried fresh.  5. If a dog chooses to chew shoes, whose shoes does he choose to chew?  6. Je...

 Work in pairs Do you sometimes not get to say what you want to a group conversation? Why? Think of someone who often holds the floor, i.e. talks for a long time without letting anyone else talk. How do they do this? Look at the Quiz. Do it twice, once for conversations in your own language and one for the ones in English. Look at Communication Skills below. Work in pairs to discuss potential strategies for you Listen to four different examples of people managing group conversations.  Match them with the descriptions. What strategies can you discern? a. interrupting someone  b. holding the floor so others don't interrupt c. dealing with an interrupton d. bringing the conversation back to the previous topic How to do it! OWN IT!

 Do you engage in writing for work? What genre - if any- do you use most?  Let's discover formal and informal expressions Business English Writing: Formal or Informal Instructions:  Match the informal phrases (1-15) with the neutral/formal phrases (a-o).                                                       Informal   Neutral/Formal 1  What do you need? ____ a) With regard to....(or With reference to) 2  Thanks for the email of 12 Feb. ____ b) I can assure you that... 3  Sorry, I can't make it. ____ c) We note from our records that you have not... 4  I'm sorry to tell you that... ____ d) Please let us know your requirements. 5  I promise... ____ e) I was wondering if you could... 6  Could you....? ____ f) We would like to remind you that... 7  You haven't.... ____ g) I look forward to meeting...