Curso Subvencionado de better english for business people phone + online course

1 The Media

How can we use English to speak about the media? Reading and listening to the news is a great way to improve your English but there is more to mediarelated language. News allow you to better your listening skills, as well as to learn new vocabulary. We will watch a video, go through several exercises and read a BBC article before discussing the media in our telephone lesson.

10 Facts and figures

It is not easy to say numbers, prices and dates in English so we dedicate this lesson to them. We will also spend time on two confusing verbs: borrow and lend with special exercises that pinpiont their differences. The lesson is closed with a news report on Sony Ericsson.

12 The Future 

What does it hold for our planet? Will global warming affect our daily lives? We will learn words needed to discuss this subject and the grammar concepts releated to expressing future occurrences. We will talk about what comes next and will read an article about climate change in the Iberian peninsula.

17 Decisions

At the beginning of this lesson we will watch a politician speaking in public and follow on with activities related with choosing alternatives. We’ll read an article on Spain fromTimesOnline and answer some questions.

19 Negotiation

We use conditionals to say what may happen. This unit will look at the auxiliaries may, might and could in reallife settings. During the telephone class we will talk about possibilities.