C1 Advanced

Business skills

• Cross-cultural experiences and cultural awareness
• National culture vs company culture
• Building international business relationships
• Working effectively across cultures
• Professional introductions and networking

Grammar

• Present perfect vs present perfect continuous
• Present continuous for current/temporary activity
• Past perfect vs past perfect continuous
• Future continuous vs future perfect
• Prediction and recommendation forms (going to, could, should)

Business skills

• Comparing career paths and career choices
• Freelancing, patch-working and the gig economy
• Career development opportunities
• Mentoring, networking and professional growth
• Reviewing career decisions and alternatives

Grammar

• Third conditional for alternative past outcomes
• Modal + perfect infinitive
• Fixed phrases + past simple
• Fixed phrases + past perfect
• Expressing regret, relief and satisfaction with hindsight

Business skills

• Organizational change and corporate culture
• Flexible working and new working practices
• Workplace technology and infrastructure
• Future workplace trends and career mobility
• Presenting proposals for organizational change

Grammar

• Will and going to for future prediction
• Future continuous
• Future perfect and future perfect continuous
• Modal verbs for probability and certainty
• Prediction structures: likely, expected, estimated, anticipated

Business skills

• Corporate crisis management
• Contingency planning and crisis communication
• Risk attitudes and decision-making
• PEST analysis and external business risks
• Managing teleconferences during decision-making

Grammar

• Personal pronouns for reference
• Demonstrative pronouns for reference
• One/ones to avoid repetition
• Pronouns referring to ideas, events and situations
• Cohesive reference to make business communication concise

Business skills

• Team roles, personalities and strengths
• Building effective team relationships
• Conflict management and negotiation
• Giving and responding to feedback
• Collaboration and constructive compromise

Grammar

• It-cleft sentences (It is/was ... that/which ...)
• Wh-cleft sentences (What ... is ...)
• Fronting for emphasis
• Fixed emphatic phrases
• Emphatic reason/result structures (The reason ... / Which is why ...)

Business skills

• Innovation and creativity in business
• Factors for organizational success
• Continuous improvement and efficiency
• Managing change while preserving innovation
• Evaluating ideas, projects and technological innovation

Grammar

• Adverbs for emphasizing a comment
• Adverbs for softening negative reactions
• Adverbs expressing contrast with expectations
• Adverbs used to persuade or engage listeners
• Adverb position and changes in meaning

Business skills

• Workplace learning and training
• The learning organization
• Systems thinking and continuous development
• Planning and evaluating training programmes
• Managing training communication and dissatisfaction

Grammar

• Would for past predictions, convictions and promises
• Was/were going to for past intentions and excuses
• Past continuous for planned future arrangements in the past
• Was/were supposed to for past obligations
• Shifting future forms into a past perspective

Business skills

• Employee performance and productivity
• Employer-employee expectations
• Motivation, recognition and rewards
• Performance reviews and ongoing feedback
• Giving informal presentations and handling questions

Grammar

• Wh-/how questions
• Yes/no questions with modal auxiliaries
• Question tags
• Statements used as questions
• Rhetorical, leading and challenging questions

Business skills

• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Natural and organizational resources
• Sustainability and environmental responsibility
• Resource allocation and investment decisions
• Evaluating options and business consequences

Grammar

• Zero conditional
• First conditional
• Second conditional
• Third conditional
• Mixed conditionals

Business skills

• Leadership styles and effective leadership
• Leader vs manager
• Building trust, credibility and team spirit
• Leading diverse and multidisciplinary teams
• Briefing teams and coordinating organizational action

Grammar

• Passive voice across different tenses
• Impersonal passive structures (It is proposed/suggested ...)
• Reporting passives (I've been told/given ...)
• Future passive forms
• Passive for formality, agent omission and distancing

Business skills

• Corporate values and organizational identity
• Brand values and cultural values
• Integrity, responsibility and ethical conduct
• Discussing difficult workplace issues
• Reaching formal agreements and making formal announcements

Grammar

• Present participle clauses
• Past participle clauses
• Perfect participle clauses (Having + past participle)
• Inversion after negative/limiting expressions
• Inversion for emphasis and formality

Business skills

• Persuasion and influence in business
• Advertising and consumer psychology
• Selling and presenting an idea
• Building arguments and addressing objections
• Gaining stakeholder commitment

Grammar

• Discourse markers for openness and frankness
• Discourse markers for concession and contrast
• Discourse markers for sequencing and linking ideas
• Discourse markers for emphasis and clarification
• Discourse markers for topic shifts and referring back