Units 8.2 and 8.3 Language Leader Advanced
- Listening - Noticing Verb Structure
- New Media - Reading, Idioms With Keep, Prepositional Verbs
- Competence/competency
- Present perfect tenses for experience
- Conciseness and simplicity - don't overwrite
Vocabulary
naff
hokey/corny
flavour of the month
Going Further
(1) Think hydro ceramics engineer is bad? Check out these ridiculous job titles: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489831/What-load-jobbledygook-The-ridiculous-job-titles-dreamed-recruitment-consultants-make-vacancies-sound-enticing.html
(2) Here's some more annoying corporate jargon: http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2012/01/26/the-most-annoying-pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon/
(3) "The Digested Read" by John Crace: http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/digestedread
Inferno by Dan Brown
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
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