English basics for beginners - Lesson 19 (K)SkimaTalk
I was waiting for Ellen. The document is an English lesson about waiting for someone. It contains exercises to practice conversations about what someone was doing while waiting for another person and what the other person was doing. It teaches vocabulary words related to feelings, places, and activities. Grammar is practiced through filling in blanks in sentences. Useful phrases are also introduced such as "I forgot...", "I'm about to...", "It's too...", and "It's a little...".
English basics for beginners - Lesson 19 (K)SkimaTalk
I was waiting for Ellen. The document is an English lesson about waiting for someone. It contains exercises to practice conversations about what someone was doing while waiting for another person and what the other person was doing. It teaches vocabulary words related to feelings, places, and activities. Grammar is practiced through filling in blanks in sentences. Useful phrases are also introduced such as "I forgot...", "I'm about to...", "It's too...", and "It's a little...".
The document introduces SkimaTalk, an online English learning service that provides 25-minute lessons with native English coaches via Skype. It offers affordable and flexible lessons to address common problems with cost, time, and motivation that English learners face. Learners can easily search and book lessons from experienced teachers and track their English skill progression over time. The service aims to make continuous English learning accessible through a user-friendly system.
MISSION: Helping People Go Global
Our mission is to help people go global, creating opportunities to learn from people across the world. For anyone who desires to learn or teach, we make it easy, convenient, and affordable to share skills and knowledge without regard to differences in language, culture, and nationality.
VISION: Sharing the World’s Knowledge
Our vision is to create a global skill-sharing marketplace. Every single person has a unique set of skills, knowledge, and experiences that someone else in the world will value. This abundance of talent and potential is currently untapped and limited to the general public. By connecting individuals worldwide, we enable people to access the world’s knowledge.
ABOUT: A Marketplace for English Learners and Teachers
We help English learners find the best teachers from all over the world and offer a platform where anyone can start one-on-one online English classes. Currently, we focus exclusively on English learning, but plan to expand to other skills in the near future.
This document provides instructions for a business English lesson about Intel's recent restructuring that involved large-scale layoffs. The lesson includes three tasks: 1) a 1-2 minute presentation summarizing an article about Intel's layoffs and their impact on the company's income statement, 2) expressing agreement or disagreement with the statement that a profitable company should not conduct large layoffs and providing 2-3 reasons, and 3) answering questions from the teacher about the opinion and discussing the topic to reach a consensus.
This document is a lesson plan for an English language course on business small talk conversations. The lesson focuses on talking about the weather and current events. It includes sample dialogues practicing small talk about rain and a recent earthquake, as well as exercises discussing appropriate small talk topics and phrases for business settings.
This document is a lesson on making business proposals. It discusses internal proposals within a company and external proposals to outside companies. It provides examples of monologues for proposing changes internally and to external companies. It includes exercises where students practice phrases for proposals and discuss questions related to writing effective proposals. The goal is to teach intermediate English learners how to structure and deliver business proposals.
This document is a lesson on negotiating deals from an English for business course. It discusses opening negotiations and making a deal. There are exercises that role play a dialogue between a buyer and sales representative negotiating a bulk purchase discount. The sales representative initially offers 5% off for an order of 100 units, but is pushed by the buyer to increase the discount and quantity. They tentatively agree to a 10% discount on an order of 300 units pending supervisor approval.
This document is a lesson plan for an English course discussing advertising. It includes exercises for students to practice talking about popular TV commercials in their countries and the future of advertising. Students practice sample dialogues about funny commercials and new social media marketing campaigns. They also discuss how important good advertising is and factors in creating effective advertisements.
This document is an English lesson about asking for a raise or promotion. It discusses requesting a meeting in advance and preparing for that meeting. It provides sample dialogues of conversations with a boss, requesting to discuss a raise and then in the actual meeting. It includes exercises where students practice relevant phrases and discuss topics like mentioning accomplishments when asking for more money or responsibilities.
This document is an English lesson about giving and receiving invitations. It covers the topics of offering casual invitations, responding to invitations, and extending formal invitations. The lesson includes sample dialogues demonstrating inviting and being invited. It provides useful phrases for invitations and discusses cultural norms around accepting or declining invitations. Exercises practice the sample invitations and discussion questions about inviting coworkers and responding to work events.
This document is a lesson plan for a business English course about attending a job performance review. The lesson discusses reviewing past job performance and accomplishments, and setting future goals and expectations. It includes sample dialogues of performance review conversations and exercises where students practice discussing and preparing for a performance review. Students role play conversations between a supervisor and employee, discussing past successes and areas for improvement, as well as goals for the future.
This document is a lesson plan for a business English course about networking at trade shows. It provides guidance on introducing oneself and one's company at a trade show booth. Sample dialogues demonstrate asking questions to learn about a company's products, clients, and marketing strategies. Students practice common networking phrases and discuss the importance of networking at trade shows and other questions that could be asked at a booth.
This document is an English lesson about dealing with customer complaints. It discusses addressing complaints, listening to customers, following up, and solving problems. It includes dialogues between customers and business representatives. The dialogues demonstrate apologizing for issues, investigating problems, and offering solutions or compensation. The lesson emphasizes the importance of good customer service and following up with customers until their complaints are resolved.
This document is a lesson plan on scheduling meetings in English for intermediate business learners. It covers topics like calling to schedule a meeting, asking for additional details, and holding practice dialogues. Exercises include role playing phone calls to set up meetings, changing words in sample phrases, and discussing cultural norms around scheduling. The goal is to give students practice with the key language and etiquette for setting up professional meetings over the phone in English.
This document provides instruction for a lesson on writing IELTS task 2 problems and solutions essays. It gives an example essay prompt about problems caused by overcrowding in urban areas and ways governments can address these issues. The document outlines the structure and organization students should follow in their response, including introducing the topic, identifying two problems and examples, suggesting solutions, and summarizing. It also provides vocabulary for students to use when discussing overcrowding, measures, changes, and responsibility. The goal is to help students understand how to answer IELTS task 2 style questions in a clear and organized manner using academic language.
This document provides instruction on writing an IELTS Academic Task 2 essay on the causes and effects of climate change. It outlines the structure and content of the essay, recommending that students introduce the topic in paragraph 1, discuss causes in paragraph 2, discuss effects in paragraph 3, and conclude by summarizing and making a prediction or recommendation in paragraph 4. Tips are provided on using vocabulary to clearly express how some causes have more significant effects than others. For homework, students are prompted to write a 250-300 word essay answering the question: "What are the causes of climate change and what problems are expected to arise if it remains unchecked?"
This document provides instruction for an IELTS writing task that asks students to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using communication technology in an international business setting. It gives tips on how to structure a response, including introducing the topic in the first paragraph, discussing advantages in one paragraph and disadvantages in another, and concluding by stating whether advantages or disadvantages outweigh the other. The document also provides vocabulary examples for discussing benefits, challenges, and weighing different positions. Students are asked to submit a 250-300 word answer to their teacher before the lesson.
This document provides instruction for students on how to structure and answer an IELTS academic writing task 2 question that requires them to agree or disagree with a given statement. It recommends introducing the topic in paragraph 1, arguing one position in paragraph 2, the opposing position in paragraph 3, and then summarizing and providing a conclusion in paragraph 4. It also provides tips on using vocabulary from sources like National Geographic, The Economist and BBC World News to help answer the questions. As an example, it gives phrases like "to be related to", "to be arguable that" and "to be grounds for believing something" that could be used when formulating responses.
The document introduces SkimaTalk, an online English learning service that provides 25-minute lessons with native English coaches via Skype. It offers affordable and flexible lessons to address common problems with cost, time, and motivation that English learners face. Learners can easily search and book lessons from experienced teachers and track their English skill progression over time. The service aims to make continuous English learning accessible through a user-friendly system.
MISSION: Helping People Go Global
Our mission is to help people go global, creating opportunities to learn from people across the world. For anyone who desires to learn or teach, we make it easy, convenient, and affordable to share skills and knowledge without regard to differences in language, culture, and nationality.
VISION: Sharing the World’s Knowledge
Our vision is to create a global skill-sharing marketplace. Every single person has a unique set of skills, knowledge, and experiences that someone else in the world will value. This abundance of talent and potential is currently untapped and limited to the general public. By connecting individuals worldwide, we enable people to access the world’s knowledge.
ABOUT: A Marketplace for English Learners and Teachers
We help English learners find the best teachers from all over the world and offer a platform where anyone can start one-on-one online English classes. Currently, we focus exclusively on English learning, but plan to expand to other skills in the near future.
This document provides instructions for a business English lesson about Intel's recent restructuring that involved large-scale layoffs. The lesson includes three tasks: 1) a 1-2 minute presentation summarizing an article about Intel's layoffs and their impact on the company's income statement, 2) expressing agreement or disagreement with the statement that a profitable company should not conduct large layoffs and providing 2-3 reasons, and 3) answering questions from the teacher about the opinion and discussing the topic to reach a consensus.
This document is a lesson plan for an English language course on business small talk conversations. The lesson focuses on talking about the weather and current events. It includes sample dialogues practicing small talk about rain and a recent earthquake, as well as exercises discussing appropriate small talk topics and phrases for business settings.
This document is a lesson on making business proposals. It discusses internal proposals within a company and external proposals to outside companies. It provides examples of monologues for proposing changes internally and to external companies. It includes exercises where students practice phrases for proposals and discuss questions related to writing effective proposals. The goal is to teach intermediate English learners how to structure and deliver business proposals.
This document is a lesson on negotiating deals from an English for business course. It discusses opening negotiations and making a deal. There are exercises that role play a dialogue between a buyer and sales representative negotiating a bulk purchase discount. The sales representative initially offers 5% off for an order of 100 units, but is pushed by the buyer to increase the discount and quantity. They tentatively agree to a 10% discount on an order of 300 units pending supervisor approval.
This document is a lesson plan for an English course discussing advertising. It includes exercises for students to practice talking about popular TV commercials in their countries and the future of advertising. Students practice sample dialogues about funny commercials and new social media marketing campaigns. They also discuss how important good advertising is and factors in creating effective advertisements.
This document is an English lesson about asking for a raise or promotion. It discusses requesting a meeting in advance and preparing for that meeting. It provides sample dialogues of conversations with a boss, requesting to discuss a raise and then in the actual meeting. It includes exercises where students practice relevant phrases and discuss topics like mentioning accomplishments when asking for more money or responsibilities.
This document is an English lesson about giving and receiving invitations. It covers the topics of offering casual invitations, responding to invitations, and extending formal invitations. The lesson includes sample dialogues demonstrating inviting and being invited. It provides useful phrases for invitations and discusses cultural norms around accepting or declining invitations. Exercises practice the sample invitations and discussion questions about inviting coworkers and responding to work events.
This document is a lesson plan for a business English course about attending a job performance review. The lesson discusses reviewing past job performance and accomplishments, and setting future goals and expectations. It includes sample dialogues of performance review conversations and exercises where students practice discussing and preparing for a performance review. Students role play conversations between a supervisor and employee, discussing past successes and areas for improvement, as well as goals for the future.
This document is a lesson plan for a business English course about networking at trade shows. It provides guidance on introducing oneself and one's company at a trade show booth. Sample dialogues demonstrate asking questions to learn about a company's products, clients, and marketing strategies. Students practice common networking phrases and discuss the importance of networking at trade shows and other questions that could be asked at a booth.
This document is an English lesson about dealing with customer complaints. It discusses addressing complaints, listening to customers, following up, and solving problems. It includes dialogues between customers and business representatives. The dialogues demonstrate apologizing for issues, investigating problems, and offering solutions or compensation. The lesson emphasizes the importance of good customer service and following up with customers until their complaints are resolved.
This document is a lesson plan on scheduling meetings in English for intermediate business learners. It covers topics like calling to schedule a meeting, asking for additional details, and holding practice dialogues. Exercises include role playing phone calls to set up meetings, changing words in sample phrases, and discussing cultural norms around scheduling. The goal is to give students practice with the key language and etiquette for setting up professional meetings over the phone in English.
This document provides instruction for a lesson on writing IELTS task 2 problems and solutions essays. It gives an example essay prompt about problems caused by overcrowding in urban areas and ways governments can address these issues. The document outlines the structure and organization students should follow in their response, including introducing the topic, identifying two problems and examples, suggesting solutions, and summarizing. It also provides vocabulary for students to use when discussing overcrowding, measures, changes, and responsibility. The goal is to help students understand how to answer IELTS task 2 style questions in a clear and organized manner using academic language.
This document provides instruction on writing an IELTS Academic Task 2 essay on the causes and effects of climate change. It outlines the structure and content of the essay, recommending that students introduce the topic in paragraph 1, discuss causes in paragraph 2, discuss effects in paragraph 3, and conclude by summarizing and making a prediction or recommendation in paragraph 4. Tips are provided on using vocabulary to clearly express how some causes have more significant effects than others. For homework, students are prompted to write a 250-300 word essay answering the question: "What are the causes of climate change and what problems are expected to arise if it remains unchecked?"
This document provides instruction for an IELTS writing task that asks students to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using communication technology in an international business setting. It gives tips on how to structure a response, including introducing the topic in the first paragraph, discussing advantages in one paragraph and disadvantages in another, and concluding by stating whether advantages or disadvantages outweigh the other. The document also provides vocabulary examples for discussing benefits, challenges, and weighing different positions. Students are asked to submit a 250-300 word answer to their teacher before the lesson.
This document provides instruction for students on how to structure and answer an IELTS academic writing task 2 question that requires them to agree or disagree with a given statement. It recommends introducing the topic in paragraph 1, arguing one position in paragraph 2, the opposing position in paragraph 3, and then summarizing and providing a conclusion in paragraph 4. It also provides tips on using vocabulary from sources like National Geographic, The Economist and BBC World News to help answer the questions. As an example, it gives phrases like "to be related to", "to be arguable that" and "to be grounds for believing something" that could be used when formulating responses.
