*changes may apply
Learning new skills / Goal setting
- Reading: What is your starting point?Introduction to reading strategies
- Listening: What is your starting point?Identifying the main points and responding
- Speaking: Small talk
- Writing: Paragraph structure, writing emails; online and AI tools
- Vocabulary: Building up your vocabulary in context and using AI
- Language: Parts of speech, sentence structure, tense review
- Functional language: key phrases in emails
The Changing Workplace of 2023
- Reading: Identifying the main ideas in different genres
- Listening: Responding to questions
- Speaking: Meeting simulation; speed date between innovators and investors; job interviews; small talk
- Writing: Writing CVs; punctuation and capitalization
- Vocabulary: word families, vocabulary of business, language of trends
- Language: asking questions, modal verbs, phrasal verbs,
- Functional language: Language of meetings (agreeing and disagreeing politely; being diplomatic; clarifying and suggesting; showing visuals; suggested phrases);
formal/ informal/ cultural contexts
The Changing Workplace: Leadership
- Reading: Understanding a long text and answering detailed questions
- Listening: Relating to a similar main idea/sentiment from the text and making the connection between ideas
- Speaking: phone calls/ introducing yourself/ Elevator pitch
- Writing: A proposal; the hamburger paragraph; clear and concise emails/ reports
- Vocabulary: common business idioms, Jargon, key hi-tech vocabulary
- Language: comparatives and superlatives, make vs. do
- Functional language: Powerful words to use in a presentation
Keys to Success (self, product, company) - FINAL PROJECT
- Reading: Innovation/ disruptive technologies.
Looking at the Big Picture: multifaceted response, looking at infographics writing a report/summary - Listening: Responding to a listening
- Speaking: Presentation – advantages and disadvantages of a new/ disruptive technology
- Writing: Report (adding value)
- Vocabulary: connectors
- Language: Review
- Functional language: Key phrases in presentations
Enhance productivity with AI
- Learn AI concepts: Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLM, AGI and more
- Capabilities and limitations of current AI tools
- Using generative AI to summarize content, learn and understand, develop and visualize ideas
- Human-in-the-loop approach with Gen AI
- The art of prompt engineering
- Using Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Slides and other Google Tools
- Learning with AI assistance: principles for effective learning
FINAL ASSESSMENT
Final project (assigned in Lesson 9): In groups, choose a disruptive technology (e.g. AI, IoT, cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, VR and AR)
- Prepare a report summarizing the positive and negative impact of your chosen disruptive technology
- Make a video/ prepare to present live in the final lesson. Present the positive and negative aspects of your chosen disruptive technology. Each student should speak for 2 -3 minutes. Prepare to lead a discussion as a follow-up in the final lesson.
Lesson 11 Exam – reading, language and writing
Lesson 12 Presentations and Innovations Fair/ Conference