B2 Upper-Intermediate Level 2 - Presenting Ideas and Job Success
This module helps learners present ideas clearly and talk about job experiences and problem-solving. It builds skills in reacting, justifying opinions, evaluating, and interacting in formal and informal settings.
Grammar Topics
- Past perfect
- Past perfect continuous
- Phrasal verbs
- Relative clauses
- Reported speech
- Will and going to (for prediction)
- Wish
- Would (habits in past)
- Connecting words (cause, effect, contrast)
- Discourse markers (formal speech)
- Linkers: although, in spite of, despite
- Linkers: sequential – past time – subsequently
Vocabulary Topics
- Presentation feedback, reaction
- Casual speech, informal phrases
- Opinions, reasons
- Problem-solving, strategies
- Dialogue, team roles
- Evaluations, overviews
- Work-life balance
- Jobs, tasks
- Emotions at work
- Careers, interviews
- Arguments, discussion
- Storytelling, sequences
Communication Skills
- Expressing reaction
- Interacting informally
- Opinion, justification
- Speculating
- Taking the initiative in interaction
- Synthesizing, evaluating, glossing info
- Critiquing and reviewing
- Describing experiences
- Describing feelings and emotions
- Describing hopes and plans
- Developing an argument
- Encouraging and inviting another speaker