Introduction: Major steps in acquiring commands in spoken English, American and British English.
Tenses:Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous.
Future tenses:Will, shall, going to, present continuous / present simple with future meaning, future perfect, future perfect continuous, the future seen from the past.
Modals: Should and ought to, will, would, used to may, might, can, could, be able to, must, have (got) to needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, permission, offers etc.
Linking verbs: be, appear, seem; become get etc. have and have got; have and take; do and take.
Passive: Forming passive sentences using passives, reporting with passive verbs.
Questions:Forming questions. Asking and answering negative questions.
Verbs: Infinitives, -ing forms. Verbs with and without objects.
Reporting: Reporting people’s words and thoughts. Reporting statements, offers, suggestions, orders, intentions etc.
Determiners and quantifiers: some, any, something, somebody, much, many, a lot, all, the whole, both, each, every, no, none, little etc. Quantifiers with or without ‘of’.
Relative clauses: prepositions in relative clauses, particle clauses with adverbial meaning.
Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words: Reflective pronouns, leaving out verbs with auxiliary verbs, leaving out to-infinitives.
Adjectives: position, gradable and ungradable adjectives, adjectives and adverbs, participle adjectives, prepositions after adjectives, adjectives + that clause or to-infinitive, comparison with adjectives.
Adverbs and conjunctions: Position of adverbs, adverbs of place indefinite frequency and time. Degree of adverbs: comment adverbs, viewpoint adverbs, focus adverbs. Adverbial clauses of time, giving reasons, purposes and results, contrasts: although and though; even though, in spite of. Conditional sentences connecting ideas between and within the sentences.
Prepositions: complex examples with at, in, on, across, along, over, through, above, over, below, under, between, among, by, beside, during, for, in, over, throughout, by until, except (for), besides, apart from, but for, about, with etc. Preposition after verbs, word order.
Phrasal Verbs : Three study units and ten lessons about Phrasal Verbs. Through this program you learn more than thousand phrasal verbs.
Idioms & Phrases: Four lessons on idioms and phrases. Over one thousand idioms and phrases spread across the program.
Vocabulary Builder : Four study units and sixteen lessons dedicated to build vocabulary. Throughout this program, you build about 10,000 words. |
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Definition of success: A level of social status, achievement of an objective (goal) or just as an opposite of failure.
The Wheel of Life: Success in career, personal growth, health, romance, money, fun and recreation, friends / family and physical environments.
Productivity: Key resources for increasing productivity. Attitudes toward planning and goal setting. Attitudes toward other people. Attitudes toward practices and procedures, Attitude toward yourself. Identifying and using high pay-off activities. Establishing a baseline for productivity. The rewards for improving productivity.
Time management: Your self image. Personal and organizational goals. The goal setting process. The power of written goals. How to find time for planning and goal setting. Tracking the progress and feedback. Putting affirmation and visualization into practice.
Controlling priorities to increase productivity: Setting priorities. Dealing with interruptions. Coping with emergencies. Usage of commitment book / organizer. Handling of drop in visitors. Handling e-mails, chats and paper flow. Managing communication. Efficient work areas.
Use of effective communication to improve productivity: Time for communicating, empathy in communication, Clarifying with effective questions. Listening for the total message. Tips for reading. Writing for maximum impact. Communicating with groups.
Team management: The empowerment imperative. The benefits of empowerment. Attributes of a leader. Attitudes – the heart of empowerment and delegation. Levels of delegation. Communication and delegation.
Increasing the productivity of the Team: Sharing and communicating goals. Creating a learning environment. Developing and coaching self directed work teams. Positive expectancy. Strategies and methods for training. Efficient procedures. Productive meeting strategies.
Team commitment: Preparation of effective job description. Training area identification and training plan.
Quotation from world leaders:
Success experiences, entrepreneurship, how to become successful in life, value of hard work, how to work smart.
Core values and concepts for any successful organization:
Visionary leadership, Customer-driven excellence, Organizational & personal learning, Valuing employees & partners, Agility, Focus on the future, Managing for innovation, Management by fact, Social responsibility and citizenship, Focus on results and creating value.
Important Management Ideas:
Leadership, Strategic planning, Customer and Market focus, Information and Analysis, Human resources, Process management, Business results.
(The above success related topics are used to illustrate various English structures and usages across this interactive learning program. The usage is purely based on the relevance and context and are not sequential or in the above order.) |