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GRAMMAR MADE EASY:

A WORKPLACE ENGLISH Grammar Workshop
Course Description

OVERVIEW
English is an essential requirement in the working world in today’s fast-paced global economy.
Consequently, using English at workplace is different from general, conversational English, our workshop
has been specifically tailored to meet the challenges in your working life. We will arm you with the skills
you require to communicate effectively and confidently in your workplace particularly.

STRUCTURE
Our workshop focuses on the situations that are related to your everyday working life. These include
grammatical items commonly used in writing email and memos, participating in meetings, interacting with
colleagues, clients, visitors and etc.
This workshop is essentially communicative-driven. The key grammar in each module has been carefully
selected carefully to ensure that only relevant language skills are learnt and applied immediately and with
ease at the workplace.

Why GRAMMAR MADE EASY: A WORKPLACE ENGLISH Grammar Workshop?

If your language skills are rusty and you can’t remember all those grammar rules from your earlier
education, then this Grammar Made Easy: A WORKPLACE ENGLISH Grammar Workshop is your
right choice. This workshop is carefully designed to help you brush up your language skills and gain
confidence in a workplace where communication skills are becoming increasingly important.

This workshop will help improve your oral and written communication skills. The fun approach in this
workshop makes the entire topic of grammar less intimidating and easier to grasp.

So whether you are looking forward to be more productive at work or simply increase your chances of
promotion, our expert trainers and targeted approach to teaching English will help accomplish those
goals.

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A. COURSE OUTLINE
TARGET GROUP TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The workshop is designed for 2 levels of officers In order to facilitate a student-centred
serving the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and other medium of instruction, the workshop
ministries who require training in the area of uses a variety of grouping strategies:
Workplace English. (15-25 participants). pairs, groups and whole class activities.
 Level 1: Grade N17- 36 These collaborative activities will enable
 Level 2 : Grade 41- 44 participants to work with others to
produce joint effort materials.
DURATION
Special features of the ‘Grammar Made
‘Grammar Made Easy’ is designed for a period of Easy’ module are:
18 contact hours; 9 lessons and 2 hours of
 Authentic Practice - participants practice
testing. responding to authentic models of
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES spoken and written English with the
current language they know. In this way,
The objective of ‘Grammar Made Easy’ is to help participants build their confidence and
improve and enhance the participants’ proficiency in skills in coping with the language in the
English through different grammatical content in a natural working environment.
work-related context with the aim of enabling them
 Practical Grammar – a supplementary
to function more efficiently and effectively at their
section to the grammatical session which
workplace.
includes a comprehensive Grammar
LEARNING OUTCOMES Booster.
Upon completion of this workshop, participants are  Grammar Booster – provides abundant
expected to be able to: grammatical rules from each
 communicate better in English in a professional grammatical point taught during the
context lectures. This will allow participants to
 use correct grammatical structures competently review the grammar forms at any time.
within a professional context.
 present information orally and written with In order to achieve the goals desired,
confidence and appropriateness for the purpose. ‘Grammar Made Easy’ integrates three
IMPLEMENTATION AND COORDINATION skills: workplace skills, language at work
and vocabulary.
Timeframe: 3 Days Workshop
8.30am – 4.30pm TRAINERS
Itinerary: This workshop will engage the service of
8.30am – 10.30am Session 1
10.30am – 11.00am Break CLCD’s in-house trainers who are well
Schedule: qualified and experienced professionals
11.00am – 1.00pm Session 2
1.00pm – 2.30pm Lunch in the area of English Language
2.30pm – 4.30pm Session 3 Teaching/Training (ELT).
2019
Dates: 25 – 27 June ( Level 1)
24 – 26 Sept ( Level 2)

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B. PROPOSED MODULE
Session 1: Introduction
 Course registration and opening
 Breaking the Ice
 English Grammar Pre-Test
Session 2: Mind your English!
• Malaysian English Versus Standard
English
• The Usage of Manglish
• The Broken English
Session 3: Is that Grammatically Accurate?
• Parts o Speech :
• Active versus Passive Voice
• Modal Verbs: for giving advice
Session 4: Master your Verb Tenses
• The Simple Rules
• The Past, Present and Future
• The Perfect Forms
Session 5: Workplace Grammar in Action
 The Email Etiquette
 Scripting the Memos
 Taking the minutes
 Editing Techniques and Proofreading
your documents
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Session 6: Let’s Speak English!
 Socializing: Introducing yourself and
others
 Socializing: making small talk and
developing a conversation
( Target Grammar: present simple, countable
and uncountable nouns)
Session 7: Getting the Message Across
 Exchanging information: Giving advice
 Showing understanding
 Suggesting solutions
( Target Grammar: Modal Verbs)
Session 8: Hello?
 Telephoning: making and receiving
phone calls
( Target Grammar: Present Continuous)
 English Grammar Post-Test
Session 9: Let’s Have that Meeting
 Asking and Giving opinions
 Making and responding to suggestions
 Giving a report
 Making predictions
( Target Grammar: comparisons, present
continuous, past simple, future)
Closing Ceremony
&
Course Evaluation Session
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C. EVALUATION METHOD

GRAMMAR PRE-TEST: The purpose of this test will place participants accurately according to their
grammatical ability which will be useful for the participants and can further enhance the planning process
for the trainers. The test will be administered online.

GRAMMAR POST-TEST: The post-test will measure the amount of learning the participants have
acquired after completing the workshop. It is expected that participants will be better equipped than what
they initially accomplished based on an increase in knowledge and understanding.

The format of both tests’ is as follows:

Types of
Test Specification Evaluation
Test

Name: English Level Test

Duration: 30 minutes
Structure: Multiple Choice Questions Total Score : 40
Pre -Test No. of Questions: 40 Range: ( Based on the test instrument
Method: Online testing grading system aligned to CEFR)
Source:
https://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/level- Score Level CEFR
test/ 0-9 Beginner A1
10-19 Elementary A2
20 - 29 Intermediate B1
Name of Test: GME- Module Achievement 30 - 35 Upper - B2
Test Intermediate
Duration: 1 hour 36 - 39 Advanced C1
Post - Test Structure: Multiple Choice Questions 40 Proficient C2
No. of Questions: 40
Method: paper testing
Source: GME Test Question Booklet

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CEFR Communicative Language Competency for Grammatical Accuracy

Among the added value is that the workshop evaluation and reporting strategy will correlate to the CEFR
Communicative Language Competence for Grammatical Accuracy

Maintains consistent grammatical control of complex language, even while attention is otherwise
C2
engaged (e.g. inforward planning, in monitoring others’ reactions).

Consistently maintains a high degree of grammatical accuracy; errors are rare and difficult to
C1
spot.

Good grammatical control. Occasional "slips" or non-systematic errors and minor flaws in
sentence structure may still occur, but they are rare and can often be corrected in retrospect.
B2
Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control. Does not make mistakes which lead to
misunderstanding.

Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with
noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
B1
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used "routines" and patterns associated
with more predictable situations.

Uses some simple structures correctly, but still systematically makes basic mistakes - for
A2 example tends to mix up tenses and forget to mark agreement; nevertheless, it is usually clear
what he/she is trying to say.

Shows only limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a
A1
learnt repertoire.

D. CERTIFICATION
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will receive a ‘Certificate of Attendance’ and ‘Performance
Transcript’ from the Centre for Languages and Cultural Diplomacy, IDFR.

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E. RESOURCES
1. Longman, Addison Wesley. Workplace Plus with Grammar Booster 4: Living and Working in
English. New York: Longman Inc., 2005.
2. Bartram, Mark. Business Result Pre Intermediate Teacher’s Book. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2014.
3. Grant, David, Jane Hudson. Business Result Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014.
4. Solomon, J.S, Chuah Ai Bee. English for Malaysians. Selangor:Pelanduk Publications, 2016
5. Language Level Tests: Check Your Language Level Online for Free. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.cactuslanguage.com/language-level-tests/
6. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment

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