Summary

Title Welcome to San Francisco Vocabulary New words Language Focus: Modal verbs Note Note

Summary

Writing Speaking: giving talks and

presentation Communication skills at work

Welcome to San Francisco• What do you know about San Francisco?

• Why don’t we take a trip to this beautiful country?

• Read the description of San Francisco. Add information to this table:

Geography Tourism Business Transport

VocabularyAmerican English –British EnglishDowntown/city centreShopping mall/shopping centrePavement/side walkFlat/apartmentElevator/liftTaxi/cabFreeway/motorwayGas/petrol

American English and British English spelling is sometimes

differentAmerican English:

Center

Traveling

Color

Practise

Can you find any other

example of AmE

spelling in the San

Francisco text?

British English:

Centre

Travelling

Colour

Practice

New words

• Peaceful

• Cosmopolitan

• Extensive

• Stunning

• Skyscraper

• Elocution

• Boom

Language Focus:Modal verbs

What else must I be careful about?

I must go now!

• Do I have to be on time

for everything?

You have to be on time for meetings and business appointments.

Do I need to know about

American popular culture?

You need to think clearly and carefully.

• You mustn’t ask questions that are too personal.

• You don’t have to arrive exactly on time for parties and social occasions.

• You needn’t worry. In American business culture, they stick to the rules.

“Need”: modal verb• You don’t need to spend a long

time on social formalities.“Need”: ordinary verb

Note:Note:Must usually expresses the personal

opinion of the speaker about what is necessary or obligation.

Have to usually expresses general obligation outside the control of the speaker, or an obligation based on a rule or law.

Need to is used in both contexts to express necessity.

Note: Note: Mustn’t is used to express a necessity

or obligation not to do something.Don’t have to is used to express the

personal opinion about not to do something.

Needn’t is used to express no necessity or obligation to do something.

Writing

Task1:

Describe your town or city.

Task 2:

Give your opinion of the advantages and disadvantages of call centres and international outsourcing.

Speaking :giving talks and presentation

What do you need to do to give a successful talk or presentation?

Good preparation?

Be confident?

Nonverb

al

communica

tion?

Content?

Communication skills at work

Giving talks and presentation:

1. Preparation

2. Signposting language

3. Delivery

Preparation: six key points

• Objectives

• Audience

• Content

• Organization

• Visual information

• Practice

Signposting language

• I’m going to talk about…

• First, second, third, finally…

• Let’s start with…

• Is that clear?

• As you know that…

• That’s a good point.

• Thanks for your attention………..

Delivery :key pointsDelivery :key points

Nerves...Nerves... ..............

Practice

Give your talk or

presentation to

the rest of the class

on a topic of your choice.

Thanks for your attention!