Learning objectives

At the end of this unit, you should be able to:

1. Identify professional and everyday information in an oral discourse in standard language, analysing the global contents of a message and relating it to the correspongin language resources.

• Identify the main idea in a message.
• Identify and follow oral instructions.
• Be conscious of the importance of understanding the main ideas in amessage even if you do not understand all the elements that make up the message.
• Recognize the finality of face-to-face and telephone messages, or messages transmited through other auditory means.
• Get specific information in messages referring to usual aspects of everyday and professional life.
• Place a message in its context.
• Identify the main ideas in a well-structured speech in standard language about well-known aspects and transmited in the media.

2. Interpret professional information in simple written texts, analising the message in a comprehensive way.

• Read simple texts in standard language.
• Interpret the general meaning of a message.
• Relate the text to its correponding context.
• Interpret a message transmitted through different means: post, fax and e-mail, among others.
• Identify the terminology used in a message.
• Interpret technical manuals.

3. Produce well-structured and simple oral messages, taking an active part in professional conversations.

• Describe brief, unexpected events related to your job.
• Identify and use the direct, formal or informal registers in a message.
• Use the appropriate protocol in presentations.
• Make a correct use of the terminology of your job.
• Justify the acceptance or the refusal of a proposal.

4. Produce simple texts in standard language by using the appropriate register in different situations.

• Write short texts referring to everyday and/or professional aspects.
• Use the social conventions in documents.
• Fill in documents referring to your professional field.
• Organize the information in a coherent way.
• Apply the appropriate rules and specific vocabulary when filling in documents.

5. Show the correct attitude and behaviour in different professional situations by using international conventions.

• Define the most distinctive aspects of the customs of English-speaking communities.
• Describe the social conventions of your country.
• Identify the values and beliefs which are characteristic of English-speaking communities.
• Identify the social and professional aspects of your job in all types of oral and written messages.
• Apply the social conventions in English-speaking communities. (…)