Primary Skills 

Listening            receptive skill

Speaking            productive/expressive skill

Secondary Skills

Writing               Productive/expressive skill

 Reading             receptive skill

 

Vocabulary Skills

Business register

Formal / informal register

False Friends

Collocations (word partners)

 Linking words /sign posts

 Vocabulary range

Vocabulary learning strategies

Topic vocabulary

                           

Grammar Skills

 Tenses

 Simple vs. continuous

 Activities

 Rules / routines (simple present)

Current projects (present continuous)                                        

Decision making (will, going to….)

Passive /active

 

Business Skills           

Communication

Situations

Meetings

Presentations

Negotiations

                                                                 

Graph Skills               

Types of graphs

Language of graphs

Trends

 

Simple

Present simple: work. works.

present continuous: am/is/are working. 

Present perfect simple: have/has worked

Past simple: worked

past perfect simple: had worked

Future simple: will work

 

Continuous

present continuous: am/is/are working

past continuous: was/were working

present perfect continuous: I have been working

past perfect continuous: had been working

future continuous: will be working