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General English Course For Professional Development: Goals / Objectives

This document outlines lessons from a general English course focused on professional development. [Lesson 4 teaches individual and collaborative speaking tasks. For individual tasks, it provides tips like listening carefully, taking time to think, and using phrases to give opinions. For collaborative tasks, it suggests agreeing, disagreeing, and involving the partner using sample phrases. The lesson includes sample speaking activities on jobs, eating out, and going out to practice these skills.]

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General English Course For Professional Development: Goals / Objectives

This document outlines lessons from a general English course focused on professional development. [Lesson 4 teaches individual and collaborative speaking tasks. For individual tasks, it provides tips like listening carefully, taking time to think, and using phrases to give opinions. For collaborative tasks, it suggests agreeing, disagreeing, and involving the partner using sample phrases. The lesson includes sample speaking activities on jobs, eating out, and going out to practice these skills.]

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GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Date: June 08th, 2020.

Aims (Goals / Objectives):

• Learn ways to express your opinion


• Practice individual and collaborative speaking tasks
• Describe and provide opinions about a daily situation

LESSON 4
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLABORATIVE SPEAKING TASKS

SITUATION A:

An individual speaking task involves the ability you have to provide information when it is needed. In this kind
of exercise you don’t need to ask anything just concentrate on undertand and provide information, but
following these tips:

• Listen to the interlocutor carefully, if you didn’t get the idea try to say this: “I couldn’t hear you, May you
repeat your question please? Can you repeat it, please? Could you repeat it, please? Sorry I didn’t catch
that idea, Could you say that again?”
• Don’t get anxious or nervous because speaking in English doesn’t mean to speak fast, take your time and
provide real information.
• Try to use phrases or words to give you more time to think “Let me think, Well, that’s a very intresting
question, I’m glad you’ve asked me that question, that’s a good question, just let me take a moment to
consider your question, so let me see, that’s an intresting point to discuss, etc”
• Also if you want to provide you point of view, do not hesitate to use these phrases: “In my opinion, in my
view, In my experience, Personally I think/believe, As far as I know, I’d like to point out that, If you ask
for my opinion, from my point of view, I have no opinion in this matter, etc”

Look at the example below:

Hey Luis! How are you?


I’m fine as always! What are you doing?

Here trying to write something for


my university project about the Just let me take a moment to think
climate change, what do you think I about your question, As far as I
can write about? know you must write about the
pollution that cars emit everyday or
what about the poor endangered
I’m glad you’ve mentioned to species?
me that idea because that’s an
intresting point to discuss with That’s for sure Natalia. So why don’t we
my classmates. start know?
GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SPEAKING ACTIVITY 1
(JOBS)

Phase 1: INTRODUCTION (General questions to know something about you)

Phase 2: BACK-UP QUESTIONS (Specific questions that give you a general idea about the topic)

Phase 3: INDIVIDUAL SPEAKING TASK (Provide your opinion according to the interlocutor necessities)

Your photographs show people working in different situations:

a) What do you like or dislike about each job?


______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
b) Which situation would you prefer to be in? Why?
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
c) What advantages or disadvantages do these jobs have?

Fireman (Firefighter) Office Clerk


Advantages Disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages

d) Finally if you have the necessity to choose one of these jobs, which one you will prefer (Compare them):
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SITUATION B:

A Collaborative speaking task involves the ability you have to provide information or opinions and ask for
them when they are needed. In this kind of exercise you need to ask something to have a fluent conversation,
here you have some useful phrases:

• Agree someone: I complitely/absolutely agree with you, There is no doubt about that, I couldn’t agree
more with you, that’s so true, I think so too, that’s a good point, So do I, I agree with you entirely,
That’s just what I was thinking, etc.
• Disagree someone: I cannot share that point of view, I totally disagree with you, I’m afraid I can’t agree
with you, I don’t agree with you, That’s not entirely true, I’m not sure about that, Yes, but don’t you
think, etc.
• Partial agreetment: That’s true but, You could be right, I see your point but, I agree with you in part, It
sounds intresting but, etc.
• Involve your partner: what do you think?, How about you?, Do you think so?, Do you agree?, etc.

SPEAKING ACTIVITY 2
(EATING OUT)

Phase 1: INTRODUCTION (General questions to know something about you)

Phase 2: BACK-UP QUESTIONS (Specific questions that give you a general idea about the topic)
GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Phase 3: COLLABORATIVE SPEAKING TASK (Provide and ask for opinions)

Case 1: You agree with me all the time! Case 2: You disagree with me all the time!

SPEAKING ACTIVITY 3
(GOING OUT)

Phase 1: INTRODUCTION (General questions to know something about you)

Phase 2: BACK-UP QUESTIONS (Specific questions that give you a general idea about the topic)

Phase 3: COLLABORATIVE SPEAKING TASK (Provide and ask for opinions)

Case 1: You help me to speak! Case 2: I don’t understand you!

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