To be completed at home or in class (as your teacher tells you).
Which of these skills are most important for you/ most important in your job?
- Speaking
- Listening
- Reading
- Writing
- Pronunciation
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
Which do you need most practise of? (Choose a top 3)
Business speaking needs analysis
For you, does improving your speaking (mostly) mean:
- grammatical accuracy?
- pronunciation?
- vocabulary?
- politeness?
- small talk?
- avoiding silence?
- fluency?
What level do you aim for your speaking to reach?
- Indistinguishable from a native speaker
- Able to communicate
- Able to communicate easily
- Lose my accent
- Impress people with my pronunciation
- Impress people with my fluency
What would your reaction be if someone said about you “He has a really strong accent”?
Business listening needs analysis
When you listen to people speak and have difficulty understanding, why is it usually?
- You simply don’t know the words they are using
- You know the words, but don’t recognise them when you hear them
- You recognise the words individually, but miss them when they are put together in fast natural speech
- When you are concentrating on the meaning of one word, you miss the rest of what is said
- They are speaking too fast
- They have a particular accent which you find difficult
How much of your time is spent speaking to native speakers?
Where are they from?
What other nationalities/ language speakers do you usually speak English with?
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