Osvaldo LamanuzziSantiago AscoleseSogefi 2013

Module ProgramMarket Leader Pre- Intermediate Units 1,2,3,4 ,6,8– Course book & Practice File+ DVD

Business Result Pre- intermediate Units 11,12,13,14,15,16

Unit 1: Careers (Market Leader Pre-Intermediate)

Unit goals:a) To talk about careers and career moves. Review vocabulary related to careerb) To discuss careers suitable for womenc) Telephoning: Getting connected.

Reading skills: Article: Cosmopolitan readers queue for Tube job (Response to an advertisement)

Communication/ Writing skills:- Telephoning: making contact, using vocabulary for making and receiving calls- Listening to an interview with the head of a public relations company- Case study: Fast-Track Inc. Choose the best candidate for the job- Writing a memo to the head of the interviewing team

Language focus: Modals 1: ability (can, could, would) Requests and offers

Vocabulary: Words that go with career Verb and noun combinations

Unit 2: Selling online (Market Leader Pre-Intermediate)

Unit goals:a) To discuss shopping using buying / selling vocabulary. Discussing new trends about shopping habitsc) Revision of modal verbsd) Negotiating, reaching agreement, making concessions, stating aims

Reading skills: Article: The arrival of virtual pocket money (new shopping tendencies)

Communication/ Writing skills: - Negotiating: being able to reach an agreement, making concessions, bargaining- Listening to an interview with the developer of an online bookshop- Case study: Lifetime Holidays (negotiating a joint venture)- Writing e-mail summarizing the points agreed during a meeting

Language focus: Modals 2 must, need to, have to, should

Vocabulary: Words and expressions for buying and selling

Unit 3: Companies (Market Leader Pre-Intermediate)

Unit goals:a) To discuss shopping using buying/selling vocabularyb) Discussing new trends about shopping habits (virtual pocket money)c) Review modal verbsd) Negotiating, reaching agreement, making concessions, stating aims

Reading skills: Reading: website for a clothing company

Communication/ Writing skills:- Presentation skills: Presenting your company (outlining the presentation, introducing new information, ending the

presentation)- Listening to an interview with the sales manager of a motorcycle manufacturer- Case study: Valentino Chocolates (Prepare an investment plan)- Writing a memo to the CEO outlining an investment plan

Language focus: Present simple and present continuous

Vocabulary: Words related to companies

Unit 4: Great Ideas (Market Leader Pre-Intermediate)

Unit goals:a) To talk about new ideas and inventionsb) To review verb and noun combinationsc) Practice past simple and continuousd) To practice the skill of meetings (asking for comments, changing the subject, giving opinions, etc)

Reading skills: Articles: Double your money, Buying without shops, Pay before you talk.(three great ideas)

Communication/ Writing skills:- Successful meetings (Tips and language for meetings, changing the subject, asking for comments, interrupting)- Listening to an interview with a managing director- Case study: Fabtek (chose the best ideas for three new products)- Writing a report on a product outlining key features

Language focus: Past simple and past continuous

Vocabulary: Verb and noun combinations

Unit 6: Entertaining (Market Leader Pre-Intermediate)

Unit goals:a) To talk about activities to entertain a group of foreign business peopleb) To go over the vocabulary related to eating and drinkingc) To review some multi-word verbsd) To practice the skill of socializing: greetings and small talk

Reading skills: Article: corporate entertaining in Japan (changes in corporate entertainment tendencies)

Communication/ Writing skills: - Socializing: greetings (how to introduce yourself and others) making small talk making polite requests and offers- Case study: Organizing a conference small talk at a conference- Writing e-mail inviting an overseas sales managers to attend a conference

Language focus: Multi-words verbs

Vocabulary: Words for talking about eating and or two particles - prepositions or adverbs

Unit 8: Planning (Market Leader Pre-Intermediate)

Unit goals : a) To discuss the concept of planning: issues to consider, frequency, the secrets of good planningb) To go over the vocabulary related to ways to plan (business collocations) and the vocabulary related to planning for tourismc) To review the tenses to express future plansd) To practice the skill of taking part in meetings

Reading skills: Article: Brazil tries to kick-start tourism (planning for tourism)

Communication/ Writing skills:- Meetings skills: interrupting and clarifying- Listening: interview with Rebecca Stephens, who plans and leads expeditions- Case Study: The voice of business. Plan a radio program- Writing: write a letter to a famous business person asking them for an interview

Language focus: Verbs to express future plans (plan, hope, expect, would like, want, going to) Present continuous

Vocabulary: Words for talking about plans

Business Result Pre- Intermediate