Resources for Communication Skills
Showing posts with label 03 Advanced. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 03 Advanced. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Business English at English Pod
Business English at English Pod
Topics
accommodation advertising airlines appearance banking business slang|idioms business travel choices clothes clothing|textiles communication corporate culture Culture customer service Dates deadlines describing people eating out economics ethics etiquette|manners etiquette|manners culture factory festivals|holidays travel finance food|drink food|drinks giving feedback health hiring|firing home hotels hr Idioms innovation insurance interviews introductions investing jobs|careers law|crime management managing people manufacturing marketing media meeting meetings money Movies negotiating office people planning pr presentations recruitment relationships relationships|dating sales schedules shopping slang|idioms communication strategy takeovers tech teleconference telephoning Time time, time management Transportation Travel university life weather
Functions
active listening address advantages|disadvantages agreeing|disagreeing answering answering questions asking asking for information asking questions beginning meetings being diplomatic business etiquette cause and effect clarifying|defining closing command|request comparing comparing|contrasting comparing|people complaining compliments compromising confirming connecting contrasting Dates dealing with numbers defining|clarifying describing describing events describing people describing places describing problems describing products|services describin people Different discussing discussing time do emphasizing etiquette|manners events exaggerating|misleading existence|occurrance explaining decisions expressing expressing ideas feelings giving directions giving examples giving feedback giving instructions giving opinions greetings how I? Idioms interrupting introduction introductions, inviting linking ideas making making plans making suggestions meeting people messages modes obligation|necessity of opening paraphrasing people persuading persuading|influencing places plans|discussing possibility predicting presenting questions receiving calls refusing|rejecting offers reprimanding request request and command returning calls satisfaction saying scheduling setting deadlines signposting starting conversations stating purpose suggestion|advice summarizing summary|generalising Time time|schedules trends voting wants ways
Elementary (31)
E-1 Receiving Calls
E-2 Passing on Messages
E-3 Casual Business Introductions
E-4 Passport
E-5 Telephoning – Wrong Number
E-6 Meetings – Making Suggestions
E-7 Returning Calls
E-8 Telephoning – Leaving a Message
E-9 Telephoning – Put Me Through
E-10 Making an Appointment
E-11 Opening Meetings
E-12 Closing Meetings
E-13 Telephoning – Repeating Information
E-14 Asking for Participation
E-15 Telephoning – Please Hold
E-16 Airlines – Checking In
E-17 Check-in Security Questions
E-18 Telephoning – Stating Purpose
E-19 Changing Money
E-20 Departures and Arrivals
E-21 Weekend Vacations
E-22 Appearance
E-23 Nice to meet you
E-24 Telling time
E-25 Introducing Yourself
E-26 What’s the Date
E-27 Have you ever…
E-28 Shopping for things on sale
E-29 Comparing Appearances
E-30 How Much Does it Cost?
E-31 Inviting someone out informally
Lower Intermediate (55)
LI-1 Talking About Sales
LI-2 Telephoning
LI-3 Negotiating
LI-4 Listening for numbers
LI-5 Strategy for Future Planning
LI-6 When shall we open the new store?
LI-7 Meetings: Choosing Interns
LI-8 Telephoning: Leaving Messages
LI-9 Describing Your Work Day
LI-10 Applying for a Mortgage
LI-11 Telephone Banking
LI-12 Checking an Invoice
LI-13 Returns and Exchanges
LI-14 Airport Pick-up
LI-15 Phone Extensions
LI-16 Business Trip to Germany
LI-17 Giving a Performance Evaluation
LI-18 1st Day at the Office
LI-19 Phoning Airlines
LI-20 Responsibilities
LI-21 Arranging a Teleconference
LI-22 Teleconference – Getting Connected
LI-23 Presentation Openings
LI-24 Setting Deadlines
LI-25 Meetings - Interrupting
LI-26 Presentations – Linking Ideas
LI-27 Presentations – Using Visual Aids
LI-28 Teleconferencing – Problems 1
LI-29 Teleconference Meetings – Closing
LI-30 Booking Train Tickets
LI-31 Presentations – Closing
LI-32 Negotiations – Setting Objectives
LI-33 Negotiations – Establishing Positions
LI-34 Presentations – Avoiding Difficult Questions
LI-35 Presentations – Making it Clear
LI-36 Meetings - Clarifying
LI-37 Negotiating – Agreeing and Disagreeing
LI-38 Negotiating – Making Counter Proposals
LI-39 Making Appointments
LI-40 Negotiations – Strategizing
LI-41 Leading Meetings – Summarizing
LI-42 Appointments– Canceling and Rearranging
LI-43 Arriving for an Appointment
LI-44 Hotels – A Customer Complaint
LI-45 Connecting Flight
LI-46 Hotels – Checking In
LI-47 Bringing Up Sensitive Topics
LI-48 Reduced Forms: Whaddaya Wanna Do?
LI-49 Time
LI-50 Dinner Party
LI-51 Schedules
LI-52 Bank Accounts
LI-53 Feeling Sick
LI-54 “How was…?”
LI-55 Downtoning Language: Modifiers
Upper Intermediate (37)
UI-1 The Pareto Principle
UI-2 Product Presentations
UI-3 Effective Presentations
UI-4 Customer Service
UI-5 Reporting Quarterly Trends
UI-6 Discussing Ethical Issues
UI-7 A Performance Evaluation
UI-8 Opening a Meeting
UI-9 Closing a Meeting
UI-10 Reacting to Change
UI-11 Firing: The Good and the Nasty
UI-12 Marketing Disagreements
UI-13 Sales Competition
UI-14 Negotiating – Delivery Date
UI-15 Making Suggestions
UI-16 Business Lunch #1 - Ordering
UI-17 Factory Tour
UI-18 Forgetting Orders
UI-19 HR Decision Making
UI-20 Phone Lingo
UI-21 Making Appointments
UI-22 Meetings– Managing Interruptions
UI-23 Meetings – Voting
UI-24 Meetings – Getting Back on Topic
UI-25 Presentations – Cause and Effect
UI-26 Hotel Facilities
UI-27 Insurance Deductibles
UI-28 Hotels – Booking Conference Facilities
UI-29 The Flight Attendant
UI-30 Dating
UI-31 Looking for a New Apartment
UI-32 Health
UI-33 Money Idioms
UI-34 Bad Weather
UI-35 A Night Out: Dinner at a Friend’s House
UI-36 Exaggeration and Understatement
UI-37 Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Advanced (25)
A-1 Giving Feedback
A-2 XY Management Theory
A-3 Sports Idioms in Business
A-4 Brainstorming
A-5 Introducing Takeovers
A-6 Negotiating for a Raise
A-7 Retail Sales
A-8 PR Problems
A-9 Marketing Strategy
A-10 Privatizing Banks
A-11 Radio Ad #1 – Big Sale
A-12 Investment Presentation
A-13 Eco-friendly
A-14 Classic Interview Questions
A-15 Business Lunch #2 - Choosing Wines
A-16 CV’s vs. Resumés
A-17 Manufacturing – Just-in-time
A-18 Product Description - Computers
A-19 Insurance – Comparing Policies
A-20 Insurance – Making a Claim
A-21 Car Accidents
A-22 Crime and Punishment
A-23 Storytelling and Morals
A-24 Downtoning Language: negatives
A-25 Trends and Presenting
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Music Therapy
Music Therapy
AMTA American Music Therapy Association
Music Therapy Schools in USA
Music Therapy at NYU Steinhardt
Music Therapy at Maryville University
Music Therapy at University of Iowa
Music Therapy at University of the Pacific
BSMT (British Society for Music Therapy)
APMT (Association of Professional Music Therapiest)
DGMT (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Musiktherapie)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt
Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt-Archiv Uelzen
BVM (Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten)
CAMT (Canadian Association for Music Therapy)
AMTA (Australian Music Therapy Association)
日本音楽療法学会：公式サイト JMTA (Japanese Music Therapy Association)
Music Therapy Association of Taiwan
臺安醫院 表達性藝術治療中心 中視報導
A Music Therapist’s Blog in Duesseldorf
A Music Therapists’ Blog in Taiwan
Architecture
Architecture
history of architecture
Architecture
A is For Architecture
Charlie Rose - The Future of Architecture
Aaron Russo: The Architecture of the Prison Planet
Paradise Found: A Documentary on Islamic Architecture
Architecture Interaction: Safdie
FREEZONE - MEDIATING AND CURATING ARCHITECTURE
Architecture Year 2 Urban Design Project
Architecture in Second Life Machinima
Interactive Architecture
architecture
C4D Utas - The Future of History in Architecture
EU Creating history
Full Focus: History of Balboa Park; Urban Trees March 15, 2006
History Channel City Of The Future: Los Angeles 2106
Zaha Hadid Architecture / Architekturmuseum Basel
Augmented Architecture
Thursday, January 3, 2008
History of Psychology
History of Psychology
Toward a School of Their Own (part 1)
A School of Their Own (part 2)
Sociology:Understanding Functionalism
Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences
PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN OVERVIEW
Advertising - What psychological tricks do they use?
The Brain and the Universe
history of architecture
The Century of the self 2 of 4
Magic School Bus - Goes on Air
John William Dewey.mpg
The Engineering of Consent (part 6 of 6) !!! MUST SEE !!!
Islamic Architecture :Sinan The Architect *VS.* L.Da Vinci
Between Nature and Nurture
VYGOTSKY'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
Our Own Piaget Experiment
Piaget Experiments
Piaget Meets Nate
B.F. SKINNER: A FRESH APPRAISAL
Toward a School of Their Own (part 1)
A School of Their Own (part 2)
Sociology:Understanding Functionalism
Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences
PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN OVERVIEW
Advertising - What psychological tricks do they use?
The Brain and the Universe
history of architecture
The Century of the self 2 of 4
Magic School Bus - Goes on Air
John William Dewey.mpg
The Engineering of Consent (part 6 of 6) !!! MUST SEE !!!
Islamic Architecture :Sinan The Architect *VS.* L.Da Vinci
Between Nature and Nurture
VYGOTSKY'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
Our Own Piaget Experiment
Piaget Experiments
Piaget Meets Nate
B.F. SKINNER: A FRESH APPRAISAL
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