Lesson 1 English

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Welcome to English

Programme

• Introduction
• Tenses
• Sentence Structure
• Typical Errors
• Formal/Informal Language
• Company Profile Report 

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Introduction

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Tenses

• Test your knowledge of the Present Tense

         Kahoot 

Typical Errors

The sentences below were taken from students’ writing because they contain ‘typical’ errors. Can you improve them?

1. In august 2017 Novo Nordisk has discovered that the diabetes drug Victoza reduces the risk of heart attacks.

2. The headquarters of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries based in Israel.

3. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a pharmaceutical company who’s focused on developing, personalizing and         

     improving treatment of disorder for patient…

4. Early this september appointed Teva Pharmaceutical Industries a new CEO, Kare Schult.

5. It manufactures, sales, imports and exports pharmaceutical products.

6. The Dutch branch is located in Hoofddorp for more than 50 years and was taken over by the Japanese company           Takeda in 2011.

7. In 2016 Bayer has invested 4.6 billion euros on research and development.

8. They have a total of 4 subdivision and in these subdivision there is a combined total of 16 departments.

You Tube video - formal/informal 

Go to the padlet:

Write down at least 3 items you should remember about formal and informal writing

Formal and Informal English 1

1. This thing doesn't work right,' he told us. 

2. He told us the thing didn't work right.

3.  He told us that the machine wasn't/was not working or functioning    

    properly.

4. We were informed that the machine was not functioning properly.

5.  According to information received, the machine was defective. 

Activity

There are five sets (a-e) containing five sentences each. The sentences are not, however, arranged in any order of formality. In front of each sentence is a set of empty boxes in which a number (from 1 to 5) can be written, indicating the proper order of formality as shown in the above example. Now organize the sets. 

a.

□ She told them later that she had not known about it while it was happening.

□ Her later verbal report indicated that at the time she was completely unaware of what was transpiring.

□ I didn't know about it while it was happening,' she told them later.

□  She informed them later verbally that she had not known about the event while it 

     was taking place.

□ They were informed in her subsequent verbal report that she had had no knowledge 

     whatever of the event at the time of its occurrence.

□ He asked whether she could come and pick the stuff up at his place.

□ He wondered if it was possible for her to come and collect the material at his

    house.

□ Can you come and pick up the stuff at my place?' he asked her.

□ His request was that, if possible, she should collect the material at his place of   

   residence.

□ She was asked if there was a possibility that she might collect the material at his 

   house.

□ According to the astronomer, the name Capella refers to a star.

□ 'Capella's a star,' said the astronomer.

□ The group was informed by the astronomer that the name Capella refers to a

    star.

□ The astronomer said that Capella is a star.

□ The astronomer said Capella's a star.

□ Chinese food is tasty.

□ The cuisine of China appeals to most people's taste buds.

□ One's gustatory proclivities are very pleasantly stimulated by the traditional  

    cuisine of China.

□ Chinese food's tasty.

□ One's taste buds are stimulated very pleasantly by Chinese food.

□ The historian said: 'Hasan-e-Sabbah trained his assassins to kill his religious and political enemies.'

□ The assassins of mediaeval Persia were, according to the historian, trained by Hasan-e-Sabbah to kill his religious and political opponents.

□ The historian said that the assassins were trained by Hasan-e-Sabbah to kill his religious and political foes.

□ According to the historian, the members of the mediaeval Persian Sect of the Assassins were trained by their founder and leader, Hasan-e-Sabbah, to eliminate those who were religiously and politically opposed to him.

□ The members of the mediaeval Assassin Sect in Persia, according to the historian, were organized so as to facilitate the liquidation of all religious and political opposition to its founder and leader, Hasan-e-Sabbah.