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In spite of the
proliferation of all sorts of machines to help us in communicating, we
have not yet come to a time where we can ignore the importance of speaking
and writing clear and correct English.
This becomes even more significant in
business situations; especially since business is becoming more and
more global. English is definitely the international language of business;
so much so that even the French have capitulated and decided to redouble
their efforts at teaching English as a second language in their schools.
Everyone knows that the French have always been mother-tongue-proud and
refused to even consider that they need to master English.
One of the reasons why we in Singapore
can hold our own in the world of commerce is our proficiency in the
English language. (We need to thank our Minister Mentor who, when he
was PM, decided that we need to keep our English at a high level,
comparable to the standard in Britain.)
If you are an executive, administrator or
someone aspiring to be such, mastery of Business English will mean that
you will be comfortable speaking or writing in any work situation,
anywhere where English is spoken or written, and in the presence of
anyone. If you are not yet confident when expressing yourself in
English, here is an opportunity in our 3-day 'Mastering Business English'
Course.
Days 1 & 2
We have gone through the entire English
grammar (well most of it anyway) and extracted all the aspects of
grammar
that you will most likely use in business situations. Many of these are
only touched upon in general grammar books and by English teachers in our
school system.
Day 3
We cover usage of English in business situations; we do lots of exercises
on style and vocabulary.
Exercises
We give lots of
exercises that will, once and for all, dissolve all doubts about tense,
subject-verb agreement, pronouns, number etc. For all our exercises we use
business situations and terms that participants would be, or ought to be,
familiar with such as those used in correspondence, meetings, reports and
business presentations.
Topics include:
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Tenses
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Conditionals
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Verb
combinations
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Passives
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Modals
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Multi-Word Verbs
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Adverbs
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Nouns
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Articles and Quantifiers
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Describing Nouns
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Subject-Verb Agreement
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