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Expert - C1

Part I: Interpersonal Skills and Negotiation IV

Find the first part of your course in the Learning Program, English: Professional Situations, Expert C1. This Learning Program will enable you to take part in complex and multi-layered communication in formal and informal situations. You will be able to give presentations, defend opinions, contradict or object and express yourself with ease and tact when dealing with problems. You will be able to communicate fluently on a number of topics, even with speakers who have unfamiliar accents.

Unit 1. An Unexpected Change

• Understand stakes and implications, diffusing tension and negotiating solutions.
• Vocabulary. Express understanding, apologize, reassure, offer solutions.
• 1:33

Unit 2. Legal Advice

• Be able to give general legal advice.
• Vocabulary. Law and justice, crimes, legal procedures.
• 0:38

Unit 3. The Project

• Define a project framework.
• Vocabulary. Business terminology, brainstorming.
• 0:35

Unit 4. Client Negotiations

• Convince a difficult client and argue your point of view.
• Vocabulary. Critical thinking, evaluation processes, express and justify opinions.
• 0:36

Unit 5. Virtual Conversation

• Make a Deal
• 0:20.

Unit 6. Between Meetings

• Discuss professional topics in an informal setting, identify potential cultural issues.
• Vocabulary. Diplomatic language for changing the subject, paying a compliment, and raising a delicate issue.
• Grammar. Diplomatic constructions.
• 2:16

Unit 7. The Economy

• Participate in a group discussing economic and market news.
• Vocabulary. Economic trends, markets; positive affirmations.
• Grammar. The perfect conditional.
• 0:43

Unit 8. The Press Article

• Read and understand a specialized press article.
• 0:26

Unit 9. Department Restructure

• Discuss the organization of a department.
• Vocabulary. Weigh alternatives, consider solutions, contradicting someone, "whether," expressions of increase.
• Grammar. Short questions.
• 0:36

Unit 10. The Decision

• Communicate information about a decision.
• Vocabulary. Cause and effect.
• Grammar. The present subjunctive, diplomatic constructions
• 0:40

Unit 11. Product Analysis

• Make a presentation about a product analysis.
• Vocabulary. Value judgements and comparing and contrasting, using "while" and "although."
• 0:33

Unit 12. A Disagreement

• Argue on behalf of your company's interests.
• Vocabulary. Expressing judgements and giving examples for arguments.
• 2:55

Unit 13. Virtual Conversation

• Arrange a Delivery
• 0:20

Part II. Presentations and Meetings

This Learning Program prepares you to take part in formal and informal meetings, both as a participant and as a presenter. You will express yourself with ease while asking or answering difficult questions or summarizing lengthy projects. You will be able to give directions in a tactful manner. You will be able to comprehend presentations about unfamiliar subjects.

Unit 1. End-of-Year Summary

• Present the results of a project, comment on results and make recommendations for improvement.
• Vocabulary. Cause and consequence.
• 1:34

Unit 2. A Recruitment Strategy

• Presenting a strategy to listeners who will be involved in carrying it out.
• Vocabulary. Rhetoric.
• Grammar. Reported speech.
• 1:55

3. A Green Challenge

• Describe a complex project persuasively to an audience unfamiliar with it.
• Vocabulary. Reporting data, cause and effect, research and results.
• Grammar. Using the expression "the more ... the more ...."
• 1:49

Unit 4. A Virtual Conversation

• Find out about a car
• 0:20

Unit 5. Project Risks

• Present an overview of the risks of a project and discuss alternatives.
• Vocabulary. Explanations, working with documents, proposing problem-solving strategies.
• Grammar. Alternate conditional forms, making references.
• 1:40

Unit 6. Customer Service Objectives

• Devloping the objectives of a project.
• Vocabulary. Express ideas logically and reasonably, talk about advantages and disadvantages.
• Vocabulary. Emphasizing ideas.
• Grammar. Adverbs of degree, reported speech and compound adjectives.
• 1:40

Unit 7. Employee Incentives

• Leading groups in decision-making.
• Diplomatic and persuasive speech, handling speakers on the floor.
• 1:39

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