Pre-Intermediate Business Power

Introduction

Pre-Intermediate Business Power is an online course consisting of 50 units of English and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.

Course Aims

To give students at Pre-intermediate CEFR A2 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for general business contexts at this level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Grammar

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• form sentences in the present, past, and future in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms. Students will be able to use continuous forms to talk about the present. They will be able to form tenses with regular and irregular verbs.
• form sentences using the present perfect to talk about past experience.
• talk about quantity using some and any, and much, many, and a lot of with countable and uncountable nouns.
• use modal verb forms to talk about functions such as possibility, certainty, and mild and strong obligation.
• compare things using a variety of comparative and superlative forms.
• identify transitive and intransitive verb forms and be accurate when following one verb form with another which will be in the gerund or infinitive form.
• use prepositions of place and movement correctly.

Vocabulary

By the end of the course, students will have learned approximately 400 lexical items including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.

Skills

By the end of the course, students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of business contexts, including talking about jobs, meetings, travel, and interviews.

Unit Summary

Follow-Up

Students completing the Pre-Intermediate Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any intermediate course, including our Intermediate Business Power course.