BEC Preliminary
Skills needed for BEC 42- 721-M Jamshid /Aidan
Primary Skills
Listening - receptive
Speaking – productive
Secondary skills
Writing – productive
Reading – receptive
Vocabulary skills
Vocabulary learning strategies/ organising strategies
Scales/continuum
Never seldom/rarely sometimes/occasionally often/frequently always
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Slightly steadily sharply dramatically
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Business register (take the minutes)
Collocations (partnerships)
Place an order
Submit an offer
Take the minutes
Do /work overtime
Lodge /file /make a complaint
Pickle the cucumbers
Have a baby /experience
False Friends
Sensible /gymnasium / back
Phrasal verbs
Confusables
Vocabulary range
Grammar skills
Business activities
Business operations
Business rules / routines (present simple)
Current projects (present continuous)
Industrial processes (passive voice)
Decision making
Instant/ spontaneous decisions (will)
Planned decisions (going to)
Arranged decisions (present continuous)
The English verb
State verbs (present simple)
Dynamic verbs (present simple /present continuous)
Presentation skills
Graph literacy
Types of graphs
Language of graphs
Trends
Upward trend
Downward trend
Level trend
Working conditions
Freelancer
No regular working hours
Go to extremes (a heavy workload /no work)
ESP English for specific purposes)
Working from home (tele-commuter)
Core-worker /steady job
On salary (regular monthly pay)
Structured life
Safety net
Leave (paid holidays)
(Maternity leave)
(sick leave)
(bank holidays)
Overtime (do /work)
On flexitime
Communication is getting your message across
Verbal (face-to-face /phone
Non-verbal (body language /facial expression, gestures, hand movement posture, smiling, voice), clothes
Print/written communication
Company profiles
Base we are based in…
We make /produce/manufacture frozen food
Typical business activities
Snake [s] sound
Works
Recruits
writes
Bee [s] sound
Deals with
Travels
Organises
Chooses
Interviews
Informs
Plays (vowel)
Attends a meeting
Provides
Besuchen:
Attend
Go to
Come/go and see
What is English?
English is a baby
Germanic cow, calf, sheep, pig (sow/swine), deer
French
Beef, veal, mutton, pork, venison
Bottom lines (profit/loss) what is in it for me
Shareholder /stockholder pressure
Financial reports
1. balance sheet
what you own and what you owe (assets and liabilities)
2. The P/L profit /Loss account
3. Cash flow (inflow /outflow)
Fringe benefits/ bonus /perks