EFFECTIVE SOCIALIZING TB

Effective Socializing is a practical, video-based course designed for professional people who need to socialize with their business collegues and other acquaintances or friends in English. It provides learners with the communication and language skills needed to cope effectively in a variety of realistic social occasions. With the video as its central component, the course focuses on key social situations such as first contacts, getting to know each other, making arrangements, dining out, after work drinks, and final farewells. It presents useful language for copping with these situations. An extra part of the course are the Culture notes which will help students understand cultural aspects of socializing that may be different to their own customs back home. The video illustrates social situations where communication is first ineffective and then successful. It looks at ways in which students can avoid communication breakdown and misunderstandings, suggesting more positive ways of dealing with the different social occasions. Intended for intermediate and upper-intermediate level students, Effective Socializing lends itself mainly to classroom-based teaching and parts of it to independent study. It can be used as a short specialist course, or integrated into a wider-ranging Business English programme. This Teacher's Book is intended as a guide to help the teacher make the best use of the different components of the course. It contains detailed notes offering suggestions for different approaches to the activities, ideas for further exploitation in the classroom, and for monitoring learner development and giving feedback. It also contains photocopiable socializing activities, linked to the unit topics, for further practice,