The course aims at upgrading students' English proficiency in the workplace. It introduces students to the basic communication knowledge.

After the completion of the course, the candidate will be able to:

• speak with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations on familiar topics, although from time to time will be asked to repeat or clarify
• communicate personal information to give simple descriptions of family, other people, living or working conditions, habits and daily routines, education background and/or job
• communicate in a limited number of social situations using a range of functional language
• exchange information to perform a task
• give simple directions, instructions and explanations
• ask and answer questions
• give a short description or tell a simple story using simple and compound sentences
• express simple feelings and opinions and establish a shared understanding
• pronounce the sounds of English sufficiently clearly to be generally understood
• display some control of basic grammatical structures
• display an adequate range of vocabulary to communicate on familiar topics and perform simple tasks
• adjust language to suit context in straightforward situations
• manage the conventions of turn taking in short social exchanges, using simple techniques to start, maintain, and end a conversation
• use a limited number of common discourse markers.