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Business English |
The Future Workplace II
Business English |
Continuous Assessment Grading
- Has your company experienced undergone any major changes during your time there (e.g., new software, restructuring, new policies)?
- Is change generally managed effectively there, or is it communicated poorly with inadequate training and a "deal-with-it-yourself" or "just-make-it-work" attitude?
- Did you feel frustrated or did the changes roll out smoothly?
- Did they improve efficiency or create chaos and more problems than solutions?
- Have you seen any of your colleagues resistant to change or your methods of working? What are their concerns? How could you reassure them?
- If members in your team introduced AI-driven systems and extra layers of automation in your workflow, would you resist this change?
- Consister: quality and consistency, job security, efficiency and productivity, decision-making control, creativity.
Warm-up | Work Changes
Warm-up | Working Practices
Warm-up | Working Practices
accommodate achieve anticipate facilitate generate
exchange assess measure
a _______ targets / objectives
b _______ needs / special requirements / requests
c _______ enthusiasm / ideas / interest
d _______ information / knowledge / points of view
e _______ success / progress / productivity
f _______ change / development / growth
g _______ performance / a situation
h _______ problems / potential difficulties / objections
Warm-up | Working Practices
accommodate achieve anticipate facilitate generate
exchange assess measure
a achieve targets / objectives
b accommodate needs / special requirements / requests
c generate enthusiasm / ideas / interest
d exchange information / knowledge / points of view
e measure success / progress / productivity
f facilitate change / development / growth
g assess performance / a situation
h anticipate problems / potential difficulties / objections
Grammar | Speculating Future Changes
What are the tenses?
How certain is the speaker?
Grammar | Will vs Going to
Will
Going to
Predictions based on experience or "feeling"
We've increased the salary, so I think more people will apply
Predictions based on evidence or ACTUAL feelings
I'm going to get angry in a minute.
Spontaneous plans
You're late? Ok, I'll start without you.
Plans / decisions actually previously made
Sue is attending the conference in May.
Promises / requests / threats
Will you help me?
I promise I'll help you.
Questions about future obligations
When will we need to be ready?
Will tenses for actions in progress, completed or elapsed in Future
We will be working to resolve this issue for the next 2 months.
Advanced Grammar | Certainty
Modals with varying levels of certainty
- The recession in France might/could/will affect sales across Europe.
Will + adverbial
- The recession in France will perhaps / probably / likely impact pan-European sales.
- The French AI boom probably won't last beyond next year.
Adjectives with "be ... to" / "it's ... that ... will ..."
- The French elections are unlikely / expected / certain / bound to have a huge impact on trade.
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It's unlikely expected / probable / certain /
bound tothat the next French elections will have a huge impact on trade
Use adjectives for emphasis / distinction
- It's highly / quite / incredibly likely that all new workers will be laid off.
Advanced Grammar | Practise
What are your predictions for possible changes in your company or department? Consider:
- The business
- Budgets
- The competition
- Technologies
- Your working day
- Relationships with colleagues / your boss
- You / Your colleagues' role
- Other ideas.
(Use the target language)
Advanced Functional Language | Presentations
A large insurance company is creating a strategy for facing the future and one of its managers has been asked to attend a seminar on the future of working practices.
Advanced Functional Language | Presentations
A large insurance company is creating a strategy for facing the future and one of its managers has been asked to attend a seminar on the future of working practices.
Advanced Functional Language | Presentations
A large insurance company is creating a strategy for facing the future and one of its managers has been asked to attend a seminar on the future of working practices.
Advanced Functional Language | Presentations
A large insurance company is creating a strategy for facing the future and one of its managers has been asked to attend a seminar on the future of working practices.
Functional Language | Presentations
Outlining a structure
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I've divided my talk up into …
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First of all, I’ll … After that, I’ll …
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I’ll conclude with …
Beginning the presentation
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I’d like to start by saying …
Referring forwards / backwards / sideways
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I’ll return to … later.
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As I said earlier, …
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I’ll say more about … in a moment.
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Just to digress for a second, …
Signalling the next section
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OK, moving on …
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Turning to …
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This brings me to …
Ensuring understanding of a specialist subject
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Just to fill you in on some of the background, …
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By … I mean …
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Now I don’t know if you are familiar with …?
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Well, … refers to …
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This is where …
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And perhaps here I should explain what I mean by …
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That’s when …
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So, for example, …
Ending the presentation
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And this is my key point.
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To sum up, …
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I’ll be happy to take any questions now.
Prepare a quick presentation for changes you expect to see / would like to see in your company.
Sketch out the structure. Include:
- background info
- an outline of the presentation structure
- explanation of jargon
- reference to a later point
- reference to an earlier point
- links from one section to another
- a conclusion
Business English | The Future Workplace II
Business English | The Future Workplace II
By Adam Wyett
Business English | The Future Workplace II
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