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Technically Speaking : English at Work / Susan Quirk Drolet and Ann Farrell Séguin.

Par : Quirk-Drolet, Susan.
Collaborateur(s) : Séguin, Ann Farrell.
Éditeur : Montréal : Pearson ERPI, 2008Édition : 2nd ed.Description :240 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN : 9782761325714 (Teacher's Annotated Edition)..Sujet(s) : English language -- Business English -- Problems and exercises | English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakersRessources en ligne : Publisher's Website (3rd edition).
Dépouillement complet :
Unit 1: Do You Have What It Takes? Activity 1.1 Two Ps in a Pod - Vocabulary Activity 1.3 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall - Vocabulary Activity 1.4 The Purpose of Passion - Reading: "Align Work, Passion and You'll Thrive on the Job" by Grace Cirocco Activity 1.5 The Way of the Tiger, Part One - Listening Activity 1.6 The Survey Quest - Speaking and Writing Activity 1.7 It's Not Just What You Know - Reading: "The Hard Facts about Soft Skills" by Julie Fortier Activity 1.8 Risky Business - Watching "Hardwired for Thrills (CBC) Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts Follow-up Report Grammar Component A. Forming Questions B. Understanding Parts of Speech C. Common Errors
Unit 2 Have You Considered all the Options? Activity 2.1 Feeling Smart or Smart Feelings? - Reading: "How Feelings Can Kick-start Your Career" by Marcia Kay Activity 2.2 Taking Note of Note-Taking - Listening: "The way of the Tiger, Part Two" Activity 2.3 What Would You Do If ...? - Speaking Activity 2.4 Workplaces That Work - Reading: "Report Gives Employers Food for Thought" by Ellen Roseman Activity 2.5 Toxic Bosses - Watching: "Dealing with Toxic Bosses" Activity 2.6 Good, Better or Best - Reading: "Targeting Job Options Pays Off for Young Seeker" by Janis Foord Kirk Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts Follow-up Report
Grammar Component A. Drawing Comparisons B. Modals C. Simply Progressing D. A Case of Possessives
Unit 3: Where Do You Go from Here? Activity 3.1 Coming to Terms - Vocabulary Activity 3.2 Getting Started - Reading: "Networking Is an Important Part of Finding a Job" by Courtney Gillies Activity 3.3 A Catch-22 - Watching: "Interview with Mark Swartz" Activity 3.4 Working on Your Abs - Vocabulary Activity 3.5 Taking Care of Business Reading: "On Campus Entrepreneurs Becoming More Common" by Kendra Locke
Activity 3.6 Where There's a Will, There's a Way - Watching "Canadian Engineering Graduates Help Impoverished Countries through Technology" Activity 3.7 Why Me? - Speaking Activity 3.8 Yours Truly - Writing Business Letters Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts Follow-up Report
Grammar Component A. Tensing p B. Glancing at Gerunds
Unit 4: Are You Putting Your Best Food Forward? Activity 4.1 The "Write" Words - Vocabulary Activity 4.2 Getting Things Covered - Reading: "Solid Reasons for Writing a Cover Letter" Activity 4.3 Letter Perfect - Writing Cover Letters Activity 4.4 What's Your Line? - Listening Interviews with Eric Gudernatsch, Nadia Bhuiyan and Matthew Wahab Activity 4.5 At Ease with C.V.c - Writing a C.V. Activity 4.6 Questioning Answers - Reading: "Taking the Stress out of a Job Interview" by Janis Foord Kirk Activity 4.7 Words at Work - Vocabulary/Listening: "Norman and the Job Interview/Discussion Activity 4.8 Body Building - Discussion/Vocabulary Activity 4.9 The Real Deal - Watching: "Dissecting a Job Interview" Activity 4.10 Practice Makes Perfect - Speaking and Writing Activity 4.11 You Be the Judge! - Discussion Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts Follow-up Report
Grammar Component A. Practice Makes Perfect: Questions B. Past History and More C. True or False (False Cognates)
Unit 5: Are You Staying on Top of Things? Activity 5.1 Survival Skills - Reading:"Surviving Your First Job - What They Never Taught You at College" by Dede Bartlett Activity 5.2 Back to Basics - Watching: "E-mail Stress Study" and "Workplace Faux Pas: Having Effective Conversations" Activity 5.3 Spending Time and Money - Reading: "Saving is Painless and It Pays Off" by Wendy McLellan Activity 5.4 How Will You Manage? - Program-Related Role Playing Situations - Speaking Activity 5.5 Simon Says - Listening: "Interview with Peter Simons" Activity 5.6 Are You Getting Down to Business? - Reading: "Learn if You're Cut Out for Self-Employment" by Joanne Larouche and Peter Johnson Activity 5.7 Getting to the Top - Reading: "Seven Secrets of Peak Performance" by Morton Hunt Activity 5.8 Word Wrap-up - Vocabulary Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts Follow-up Report
Grammar Component A. An Active Look at the Passive B. Review: Verbs, Modals, Comparisons C. Review: Parts of Speech
Supplementary Unit: Are You Getting the Message?
Section 1: Using E-mail Part 1: E-mail Etiquette - Reading "E-mail Etiquette Smoothes the Way" by Steve Whysall Part 2: E-mail Burnout - Listening Part 3: E-mail Scramble
Section 2: Using the Phone Part 1: Creating a Good First Impression - Vocabulary Part 2: Telephone Messages and Conversations Part 3: Phone at Work - Speaking/Listening: "Getting the Right Message" and "Phone Scramble"
Section 3: Using a Dictionary Part 1: Your Dictionary: More Than Just Definitions Part 2: Using Your Dictionary for Pronunciation Tips Part 3: Using Your Dictionary for Stressing the Appropriate Syllables Part 4: Using Your Dictionary for Help with Prepositions Wrap-up Activity
Section 4: Speaking Techniques - Working on Pronunciation Part 1: English Stress and Intonation Part 2: Pronouncing the Final s Part 3: Pronouncing the Final ed Part 4: Pronouncing th Part 5: Pronouncing h (or not) at the Start of a Word Part 6: Pronouncing ough
Section 5: Reading Techniques - Working on Reading More Effectively Part 1: Skimming and Scanning Part 2: Context Clues Part 3: Prefixes and Suffixes Part 4: Pronouns and Discourse Markers
Term projects
Complimentary Articles
Reference Section
Worksheets
Answer Key - Grammar Units
Résumé : "Technically Speaking: English at Work, Second Edition is aimed at ESL students at the intermediate to high intermediate level. It presents career-related activities that not only prepare students for the workforce but give them the opportunity to improve and enrich both their lexical and structural knowledge of English. The second edition provides several new updated articles and authentic audio interviews with people working in technical fields, including an interview with Peter Simons, co-owner of Simons, in which he gives advice to students preparing for the workforce. In addition to the supplementary and reference sections, more dynamic and interactive features have been added for both students and teachers: pronunciation and stress exercises; a DVD with authentic work-related videos from current Canadian news programs; explanations and exercises for reading skills and dictionary usage; and an integrated answer key for the grammar exercises which allows for auto-correction." (Book Cover)
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Includes Term projects, Complimentary Articles, a Reference Section, Worksheets and an Answer Key for the Grammar Units.

Unit 1: Do You Have What It Takes?
Activity 1.1 Two Ps in a Pod - Vocabulary
Activity 1.3 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall - Vocabulary
Activity 1.4 The Purpose of Passion - Reading: "Align Work, Passion and You'll Thrive on the Job" by Grace Cirocco
Activity 1.5 The Way of the Tiger, Part One - Listening
Activity 1.6 The Survey Quest - Speaking and Writing
Activity 1.7 It's Not Just What You Know - Reading: "The Hard Facts about Soft Skills" by Julie Fortier
Activity 1.8 Risky Business - Watching "Hardwired for Thrills (CBC)
Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts
Follow-up Report
Grammar Component
A. Forming Questions
B. Understanding Parts of Speech
C. Common Errors

Unit 2 Have You Considered all the Options? Activity 2.1 Feeling Smart or Smart Feelings? - Reading: "How Feelings Can Kick-start Your Career" by Marcia Kay
Activity 2.2 Taking Note of Note-Taking - Listening: "The way of the Tiger, Part Two"
Activity 2.3 What Would You Do If ...? - Speaking
Activity 2.4 Workplaces That Work - Reading: "Report Gives Employers Food for Thought" by Ellen Roseman
Activity 2.5 Toxic Bosses - Watching: "Dealing with Toxic Bosses"
Activity 2.6 Good, Better or Best - Reading: "Targeting Job Options Pays Off for Young Seeker" by Janis Foord Kirk
Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts
Follow-up Report

Grammar Component
A. Drawing Comparisons
B. Modals
C. Simply Progressing
D. A Case of Possessives

Unit 3: Where Do You Go from Here?
Activity 3.1 Coming to Terms - Vocabulary
Activity 3.2 Getting Started - Reading: "Networking Is an Important Part of Finding a Job" by Courtney Gillies
Activity 3.3 A Catch-22 - Watching: "Interview with Mark Swartz"
Activity 3.4 Working on Your Abs - Vocabulary
Activity 3.5 Taking Care of Business
Reading: "On Campus Entrepreneurs Becoming More Common" by Kendra Locke

Activity 3.6 Where There's a Will, There's a Way - Watching "Canadian Engineering Graduates Help Impoverished Countries through Technology"
Activity 3.7 Why Me? - Speaking
Activity 3.8 Yours Truly - Writing Business Letters
Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts
Follow-up Report

Grammar Component
A. Tensing p
B. Glancing at Gerunds

Unit 4: Are You Putting Your Best Food Forward?
Activity 4.1 The "Write" Words - Vocabulary
Activity 4.2 Getting Things Covered - Reading: "Solid Reasons for Writing a Cover Letter"
Activity 4.3 Letter Perfect - Writing Cover Letters
Activity 4.4 What's Your Line? - Listening Interviews with Eric Gudernatsch, Nadia Bhuiyan and Matthew Wahab
Activity 4.5 At Ease with C.V.c - Writing a C.V.
Activity 4.6 Questioning Answers - Reading: "Taking the Stress out of a Job Interview" by Janis Foord Kirk
Activity 4.7 Words at Work - Vocabulary/Listening: "Norman and the Job Interview/Discussion
Activity 4.8 Body Building - Discussion/Vocabulary
Activity 4.9 The Real Deal - Watching: "Dissecting a Job Interview"
Activity 4.10 Practice Makes Perfect - Speaking and Writing
Activity 4.11 You Be the Judge! - Discussion
Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts
Follow-up Report

Grammar Component
A. Practice Makes Perfect: Questions
B. Past History and More
C. True or False (False Cognates)

Unit 5: Are You Staying on Top of Things?
Activity 5.1 Survival Skills - Reading:"Surviving Your First Job - What They Never Taught You at College" by Dede Bartlett
Activity 5.2 Back to Basics - Watching: "E-mail Stress Study" and "Workplace Faux Pas: Having Effective Conversations"
Activity 5.3 Spending Time and Money - Reading: "Saving is Painless and It Pays Off" by Wendy McLellan
Activity 5.4 How Will You Manage? - Program-Related Role Playing Situations - Speaking
Activity 5.5 Simon Says - Listening: "Interview with Peter Simons"
Activity 5.6 Are You Getting Down to Business? - Reading: "Learn if You're Cut Out for Self-Employment" by Joanne Larouche and Peter Johnson
Activity 5.7 Getting to the Top - Reading: "Seven Secrets of Peak Performance" by Morton Hunt
Activity 5.8 Word Wrap-up - Vocabulary
Vocabulary - Expressing Your Thoughts
Follow-up Report

Grammar Component
A. An Active Look at the Passive
B. Review: Verbs, Modals, Comparisons
C. Review: Parts of Speech

Supplementary Unit: Are You Getting the Message?

Section 1: Using E-mail
Part 1: E-mail Etiquette - Reading "E-mail Etiquette Smoothes the Way" by Steve Whysall
Part 2: E-mail Burnout - Listening
Part 3: E-mail Scramble

Section 2: Using the Phone
Part 1: Creating a Good First Impression - Vocabulary
Part 2: Telephone Messages and Conversations
Part 3: Phone at Work - Speaking/Listening: "Getting the Right Message" and "Phone Scramble"

Section 3: Using a Dictionary
Part 1: Your Dictionary: More Than Just Definitions
Part 2: Using Your Dictionary for Pronunciation Tips
Part 3: Using Your Dictionary for Stressing the Appropriate Syllables
Part 4: Using Your Dictionary for Help with Prepositions
Wrap-up Activity

Section 4: Speaking Techniques - Working on Pronunciation
Part 1: English Stress and Intonation
Part 2: Pronouncing the Final s
Part 3: Pronouncing the Final ed
Part 4: Pronouncing th
Part 5: Pronouncing h (or not) at the Start of a Word
Part 6: Pronouncing ough

Section 5: Reading Techniques - Working on Reading More Effectively
Part 1: Skimming and Scanning
Part 2: Context Clues
Part 3: Prefixes and Suffixes
Part 4: Pronouns and Discourse Markers

Term projects

Complimentary Articles

Reference Section

Worksheets

Answer Key - Grammar Units

"Technically Speaking: English at Work, Second Edition is aimed at ESL students at the intermediate to high intermediate level. It presents career-related activities that not only prepare students for the workforce but give them the opportunity to improve and enrich both their lexical and structural knowledge of English. The second edition provides several new updated articles and authentic audio interviews with people working in technical fields, including an interview with Peter Simons, co-owner of Simons, in which he gives advice to students preparing for the workforce. In addition to the supplementary and reference sections, more dynamic and interactive features have been added for both students and teachers: pronunciation and stress exercises; a DVD with authentic work-related videos from current Canadian news programs; explanations and exercises for reading skills and dictionary usage; and an integrated answer key for the grammar exercises which allows for auto-correction." (Book Cover)

Intended for intermediate to high-intermediate workplace English learners.

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