Real Talking at Work

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Case Study 1: The personal touch
Case Study 2: Getting the details straight
Case Study 3: High-Tech with a heart
General review
Welcome to Real Talking at Work, American Business English. Real Talking at Work is a 40 - program advanced english course. The objective of this course is to help you learn natural conversational English as it is used by american men and women in their everyday working life in offices, restaurants, hotels, stores, banks, and other business settings. The Volume One includes ten programs divided into three Case Studies.

The contents of Real Talking at Work Volume One; are the followings:

Case Study1: The Personal Touch
- Program 1: Greeting and Introduction
- Program 2: Listening and Questioning, Making Requests and Responding to Requests.
- Program 3: Confirming the details, Solving problems.

Case Study 2: Getting the Details Straight.
- Program 4: Getting the details straight, Be cheerful, Clarifying details.
- Program 5: Outlining a proposal Part I
- Program 6: Outlining a proposal Part II

Case Study 3: Getting the Details Straight.
- Program 7: Personnel Decisions, High-Tech leader.
- Program 8: Equipment Decisions, Technical Communication.
- Program 9: Automated office, Operations.
- Program 10: Data Collection.

Real Talking at Work is divided into 14 Case Studies. Each Case Study covers a particular industry or business activity. Through the audio recording, the listeners are transported into real-life job situations to listen and learn - just as they would do if they traveled to the U. S. and visited all these places in person. The people in all these situations are the Real People who work there. They are not professional actors and actresses. When they speak to each other, they are speaking spontaneously and naturally - "ad libbing" everything they say. Listener who study and work with these programs will achieve two impotant objectives:
(1) Comprehension Ability - by listening to conversations, talks, and interviews, listeners will expand their vocabulary and very rapidly increase their comprehension ability in natural English; and
(2) Speaking Ability - by using the simulation ("U-Speak") exercises throughout the course, which give listeners practice in interviewing and conversing with people, listeners will gain confidence in English and greatly improve speaking ability (pronunciation, stress, intonation, rhythm and fluency in English.

Real Talking at Work - American Business English - contains a wide range of learning activities with specific with specific learning goals, including the following:

a. general vocabulary building - to expand range of listeners' passive /recognition) and active (speaking) vocabulary.
b. special vocabulary development - to introduce job-specific terms, expressions, and jargon used in different career situations, and give listeners practice in using special vocabulary;
c. comprehension of continuous speech - to provide maximum opportunities for students to hear and learn to comprehend natural speech flow (beyond the isolated sentence level), ranging from short paragraphs to lengthy speeches;
d. improvement of pronunciation - to provide opportunities for listeners to practice repeating and imitating the pronunciation of native speakers in the audio materials;
e. development of naturalness and fluency - to provide maximum opportunities for students to practice speaking skills, including asking questions to get information, responding to others' questions, interviewing people to get their opinions, etc; and
f. cultural information and orientation - to support all language learning activities by providing authentic contexts and cues that enable listeners to develop insights into Western (American) cultural patterns implicit in the way men and women behave and interact with each other in their daily work environment.
e. development of naturalness and fluency - to provide maximum opportunities

Although Real Talking at Work - American Busines English - was originally designed as an intermediate-to-advanced-level study program, the course can be used by students at all levels:

Beginners level - using the audio material, beginning students will quickly learn to function in situations previously reserved only for intermediate students;
Intermediate level - with the auditive exercises, most intermediate studentswill gain active conversatioal ability in using "advanced" functions;
Advanced level - for advanced students who have been exposed only to traditional textbooks materials, the study of Real Talking at Work - American Business English - will transform pasive knowledge of grammar rules and formal syntax into communicative ability in English.