SYLLABUS OF BUSINESS WRITING &

TELEPHONING & GRAMMAR

IBEST English Center
25D Ngo Thi Nham St, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi 161 Chua Lang St, Dong Da, Hanoi
www.ibest.edu.vn
Contact: 043.944.9749 /043 944 0403

Objectives of the course

Business letter:
To understand the main content of an email and compose an appropriate response in a clear
manner

Comprehension and Pronunciation:
To improve general comprehension through an emphasis on reading and listening exercises
and to improve pronunciation through listening and speaking exercises

Grammar:
To better grammar through repetitious, controlled speaking and writing exercises that focus on
a variety of situations that are designed to ingrain natural speaking patterns





Lesson 1 Business and Travel
Reintroduction: explanation of course
objectives
Warm-up activity
Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Activity: Business travel vocabulary and
useful phrases, including questions in the
present simple
Role Play: Students write and role play
different business travel scenarios using the
vocabulary and phrases they have just
learned
Lesson 2 Past simple
Warm-up activity: Talking about the past
Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 1-2
Reading and grammar lesson focused on the
past tense
Students speak using the past tense
Optional activity: writing with the past simple
Lesson 3 Repeated actions in the past
Warm-up activity: Talking about the past
Grammar: Introduce talking about repeated
actions in the past with the words would
and used to
Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 3-4
Lesson 4 Past Continuous
Warm-up activity: Talking about repeated
actions in the past
Reading activity focusing on general
comprehension and the past continuous
Grammar lesson: Past continuous
Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Objectives of the course
SYLLABUS FOR 36 HOUR LEARNING


SYLLABUS OF BUSINESS WRITING &
TELEPHONING & GRAMMAR



IBEST English Center
25D Ngo Thi Nham St, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi 161 Chua Lang St, Dong Da, Hanoi
www.ibest.edu.vn
Contact: 043.944.9749 /043 944 0403

Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 5-6
Lesson 5 Review of Grammar
Warm-up: Ask students a variety of questions
with different tenses that we have covered
Grammar: Speaking exercises that require the
students to choose the past simple, repeated
actions in the past, or the past continuous
(Optional: also include the present simple and
present continuous so that students have more
realistic practice when deciphering which
tense to use)

Lesson 6 Summarizing
Warm-up: Review of previous lesson
Listening exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep units 8-9
Explanation of summarizing and why it is
important
3 Reading exercises: students read and then
write individual summaries of the main ideas
before comparing with a partner

Lesson 7 Oral Summaries
Warm-up
Review of writing summaries and grammar
Listening exercises: Listening for main ideas
and giving oral summaries (option: focus on
exercises using the present simple, present
continuous, past simple, repeated actions in
the past, and past continuous to ensure
students listen to what tense is being used
and offer and natural response)
Lesson 8 Review of Summarizing
Review of summarizing orally with listening
exercises
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 10-11
Review of business travel scenarios
Lesson 9 Test over lessons 1-8
Listening and identify vowel sounds
Listen for main ideas
Read and summarize
Listen and summarize

Lesson 10 Present Perfect
Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep unit 12-13
Grammar: Present Perfect

Lesson 11 Future Tenses
Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 15-16
Grammar: Present continuous, going to, and
will exercises and when to use each

Lesson 12 Time Words and Time Clauses
Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 17-18
Grammar: Time words and clauses
Lesson 13 Review of Present Perfect,
Future, and Time Words and Clauses
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 19-20
Lesson 14 Business Letter
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 21
Activity: Business Letter Writing


SYLLABUS OF BUSINESS WRITING &
TELEPHONING & GRAMMAR



IBEST English Center
25D Ngo Thi Nham St, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi 161 Chua Lang St, Dong Da, Hanoi
www.ibest.edu.vn
Contact: 043.944.9749 /043 944 0403

Activities reviewing present perfect, future,
and time words and clauses

Lesson 15 Past Perfect
Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 30-31
Grammar: Past Perfect

Lesson 16 Reported Speech
Listening Exercises: Listen for main ideas and
listen for details
Pronunciation: Ship or Sheep 32-33
Grammar: Using past simple and past perfect
to report speech in writing

Lesson 17 Relative Clauses
Grammar lesson on relative clauses
Writing activity using relative clauses
Review of previous lessons to prepare for
final test
Lesson 18 Final Test
Listening for main ideas and listening for
details
Writing sample that incorporates the tenses
learned from lessons 10-17