Rationale: The CEO or any big boss of any business firm—especially one that deals with a lot of multinational communication and interaction in English---needs to ensure his business growth. His major concern is always how his customers can be understood and therefore be given the best service. If English is used extensively in such an environemnt, then it follows that investment must be made in making sure a firm’s employees must know their English, up to now still the lingua franca or the language of commerce of the world today.

The big economic giant, China, is fast trying to learn English to ensure its place of power in the world economy. If the Philippines---which for a long while enjoyed the reputation of being the thrid largest English-speaking country in the world, next only to the USA and Great Britain---does not do anything about its English competency, then that unique business asset and capability that affects business will slowly but easily disappear. It is the imperative concern of every business leader to make sure that, even if he is not in a call center business, his people are trained well in the intricacies of English grammar by means of a program that makes English simple to master and be easily applied to both spoken and written communciation.

Who Should Attend: managers, rank-and-file employees, staffers involved in continuous communication in English whether written or spoken, and even the CEO and top leaders themselves (there are no barriers or levels in learning English grammar---everyone is equal, and the CEO’s presence can inspire his people through behavior modeling)

Method:

1. extensive exercises and drills with immediate feedback
2. fun learning games
3. simple devices for grammar explanations
4. on-the-spot multiple-intelligence activities

Course Content and Flow:

I. Top Priority Concerns with Bottom-Line Explanations

1. Word Choice (e.g. bio-data, routinary)
2. Agreement of Subject-Verb (e.g. fractions, percentages )
3. Past Tense Consistency and Perfect Tenses
4. Idiomatic Use of Prepositions (e.g. cope up with, result in)
5. Recognizing Complete Sentences in Writing

II. The Varieties of Standard English

1. American Usage
2. British Usage
3. Other Sub-Varieties
4. Recognizing Differences and Similarities

III. Hardcore Grammar

1. The Parts of Speech

• The Practical Value of Knowing Them
  • Overview of 8 Parts of Speech
  • The Quirks of Grammar
• Recognizing Them in a Sentence
  • Formal Functions
  • Word Formations
  • Phrase Formations

2. Sentence Patterns

• The Practical Value of Recognizing Them
• Understanding the Terms
  • Subject-Predicate
  • Direct and Indirect Object
  • Subjective Complement
• Understanding the Structure
  • The Rationale for English Word Order
  • Comparisons with Tagalog or Filipino
  • Shortcuts for Spoken English
  • Practical Applications in Business English

3. Focus on the Life of the Sentence: Verbs

• An Overview of Verb Forms
• Agreement Revisited
  • Noun-Verb Agreement
  • Noun-Pronoun Agreement
• Sequence of Tenses
• Perfect Tenses

4. Other Parts of Speech Priorities

• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Modifiers (adj, adv, art)
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Interjections

5. Sentence Transformations

• Basic Transformations
  • Focus on Active to Passive Voice
  • Troublesome Participle Forms
• Changing Statements to Questions

6. Clauses (and Conjunctions revisited)

• When a Clause Is a Sentence and When It’s Not
• The Use of Punctuations
• The Subjunctive Mood---the “If” Clause

IV. Selected Key Issues of Grammar for Business

1. Troublesome Idioms and How To Use Them Correctly

• A Close Look at Prepositions
• Idiomatic Expressions for Sparkling Styles

2. Non-existing Words (e.g. availment, aggrupation)

3. Misused Words (e.g. routinary, full-pedged)

4. The Grammar of Short Responses (e.g. yes I did, no I haven’t)

5. Other Concerns That Arise from the Group

V. Related Aspects for English Mastery

1. Vocabulary
2. Language Awareness
3. Constant Communication

VI. Action Steps for Long-Term Mastery

1. Selected Reading Materials
2. Exclusive TV Shows
3. Using Encarta and Other IT Tools
4. Continuous Practice
5. Feeling Good about Your Progress

WHO IS RODOLFO "DUPS" DELOS REYES?

Dr. Dups is the only trainer in the country today whose qualifications make him the most respected and highly sought-after expert on the subject of Business Communication. He is equipped with a BA English CUM LAUDE, an MA English, and a PhD Communication - all from the University of the Philippines -- plus an MBA from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, and his distinct record of having been the first Filipino English department chairman of English at the International School Manila.

Dr. Dups has been training corporate executives from different industries - from banking to manufacturing - nationwide and overseas for the past 28 years. He has also taught in the academe, including the University of the Philippines and De La Salle Graduate School of Business, among others.

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P6, 500 + VAT until March 22, 2010 and paid within the assigned due date

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