Efficient Steps to Speaking English Professionally
In this course, Steps to Speaking English Professionally You will demonstrate culturally appropriate body language and tone. As you work through the course, you will complete self-and peer evaluations.
About this Course
Do you want to speak better English? This course, Steps to Speaking English Professionally will help you reach that goal. Speak English Professionally: In person, Online, and On the Phone will boost your English speaking skills. In this 5 week course, you will learn how to identify and make a strong personal introduction. You will develop and demonstrate the speaking skills for group discussions: how to agree or disagree, how to clarify, restate and summarize.
You will review and practice how to give information and respond to requests on the phone. You will study and role-plays effective interviewing. You will prepare and give a sales “pitch”, introducing a product or service.
Throughout the course, you will adjust how you speak English and you will become more fluent and accurate when you speak. Through a combination of lectures, comprehension and vocabulary quizzes, practice and performance, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to communicate well in English, anywhere in the world.
By the end of this course you will:
- Change how you speak English
- Improve your pronunciation and fluency
- Increase your English vocabulary in Speaking English Professionally
- Identify how culture influences your speech
- Use culture to help you speak correctly
- Demonstrate the best body language for different cultural settings
- Know statements, questions, and responses for different settings and situations
Skills You Will Gain
- Stress in relation to Steps to Speaking English Professionally
- Communication
- Presentation
- Public Speaking in relation to Steps to Speaking English Professionally
Syllabus
WEEK 1
4 hours to complete
Communicate in Person: The Power of Face to Face Connections
Through the lessons in this module, you will be able to work on professional conversational vocabulary and proper word stress and intonation. After the final lesson, you will be able to present a short “Elevator Speech.”
4 videos (Total 18 min), 8 readings, 4 quizzes
WEEK 2
3 hours to complete
Meet and Talk Online
This module looks at group discussion situations with a focus on video conferencing. By looking at various scenarios, you will learn key language for group discussion as well as gain some business etiquette.
3 videos (Total 18 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes
WEEK 3
3 hours to complete
Powerful Phone Talk
In this module, you will improve language use and pronunciation for phone conversations. Trickier pronunciation distinctions in can/can’t and numbers will be the focus for pronunciation.
3 videos (Total 19 min), 3 readings, 4 quizzes
WEEK 4
3 hours to complete
Keys to a Strong Interview
Through the lessons in this module, you will be able to prepare yourself better for an interview in English. The three lessons will focus on improving your body language, pronunciation for -ed and -s ending words, and practice interview questions.
3 videos (Total 18 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes
WEEK 5
3 hours to complete
Put It All Together: Presentations
In this final module, you will have the chance to put all your newly gained language skills together into a presentation. The two lessons will help you organize and deliver your best presentation.
2 videos (Total 14 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes
Originally posted 2022-03-04 23:17:35.
