Audio Files
AF: Emails.
What does "jargon" mean?
Jargon refers to the specialized language of a professional or occupational group.
Example: LEGAL JARGON
When can we use WOULD RATHER?
Provide an example
To talk about preferences.
What does "out of hand" mean?
Reject sth inmediately and without thinking about it fully or listening to other people´s arguments.
CONNECTED SPEECH
What happens when a word finishes in a consonant and the next word starts with a vowel sound? How can you connect them?
Example: WhaT Have you done?
I tolD Him about the new contract.
You can OMIT the pronunciation of the H sound.
Complete the parts of speech:
NOUN: SUCCESS
VERB:
ADJECTIVE:
Provide examples.
VERB: SUCCEED IN
ADJECTIVE: SUCCESSFUL
AF: Difficult situations at work
The speaker said that his colleagues dismissed his suggestions. What does he mean by this?
Dismiss verb (NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY) to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering.
To express PAST HABITS:
Which if the ideas below is incorrect?
BEFORE THE PANDEMIC I USED TO HAVE MY OWN OFFICE.
BEFORE THE PANDEMIC I WOULD HAVE MY OWN OFFICE.
"WOULD" in past cannot be used with stative verbs, such as HAVE, LINK, THINK, BELIEVE, and so on.
What´s the difference between:
1. I don´t feel like going to the office.
2. I don´t like going to the office.
1. It´s not sth you´d like to do RIGHT NOW.
2. it´s sth you don´t like doing. It´s always like that.
Pronounce this word:
PROCEDURES
[prəˈsiːdʒə]
What can be "maneagable"?
Provide 3 examples.
A TEAM, MYSELF, A COMPANY.
What can not be?
AF: Retention
Do you remember at least 2 strategies mentioned in the audio file?
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You gotta know what your _cost_ of retention is. It´s a little bit different for each _position_.
You´ve to constantly do__management development_.
You have to bring your managers along so they're constantly _delivering_ that “brand promise” to the employee.
Know each _profile_ of every individual within the company.
You gotta interpret change and the effect of the change on the individuals and the company.
6. Recruit /ri.KRUT/ your employees everyday. … Why have you stopped that dialogue /daielog/?
When we start an idea using a verb, how should this verb go?
Translate:
Trabajar en forma remota es bastante conveniente.
VERB takes -ing
Working remotely is quite convenient.
Which one would you use to describe an action?
IT´S IMPORTANT FOR...
IT´S IMPORTANT TO...
And how would you use the other sentence?
It´s important for + person/people
It´s important to + verb
What do they have in common?
TALK
SHOULD
COULD
WOULD
The L is silent.
What do these verbs have in common?
DEAL WITH a situation
FACE a situation
TACKLE a situation
They express certain dificulty in the action.
AF: Lies in CV
What´s the word for a typing mistake?
TYPO
Is this correct?
I don´t know nobody at the office. Everybody are new.
Noup! It´s incorrect
Nobody, no one, Nothing + positive sentences.
Everybody, everything, every one + singular verbs.
What´s the strcuture of the following ideas to provide recommendations?
1. If I were you, I...
If I were you, I would tell that to my leader.
What happens with these words?
TASKS - TAX
ASKS - AXE (Hacha)
Final -sks HAS TO BE PRONOUNCED COMPLETELY.
THE 3 CONSONANT sounds.
Translate:
POR ALGUNA RAZÓN,
DE AHORA EN ADELANTE,
1. FOR SOME REASON,
2. FROM NOW ON,
AF: Time management
What are the 3 fundamental steps? Explain briefly.
1.
2.
3.
1. Analyze
2. Prioritize
3. Organize
What´s the tense to describe: CHANGES, EXPERIENCES, RECENT RESULTS?
Provide examples.
PRESENT PERFECT TENSE.
Examples:
We´ve just made the change on the client´s account.
We´ve been going through a process of training.
I´ve never tried Agile methodology. Have you?
Provide 3 collocations with the word CHANGE:
1.
2.
3.
Use 1 in an example.
FACE a change - Make a change - Analyse a change = Measure /ME.shur/ the change - Need a change - reject a change - imagine a change - implement a change - discuss a change - decide on a change - Go through change - Engage to a change (motivated - involved)
How can we link these sounds?
1. GOOD DEAL! /GuD Dial/
2. I GUESS SO. /ai geS Sou/
3. I thought Tomas was in the office /ai zoT Tomas woz in di ofis/
You pronounce only 1 consonant sound.
/GUDIAL/ Good dial!
/AI GESOU/ I GUESS SO.
/AI ZOTOMAS .../ I THOUGHT TOMAS WAS IN THE OFFICE.
What´s the best group EVER?
VANI AND FABI ARE A GREAT GROUP!!!!
:D
Thanks a lot and CONGRATS on your progress!!!!