 PriceFree |  Duration20 hours (over 10 weeks) |  DeliveryVirtual workshops with instructors |  StartsIntake 1: June 11 2025 Intake 2: August 27 2025 |
About this course
Registrations for Intake 1 are now closed. Limited places still available for Intake 2. Submit an expression of interest to join.
Grammar and Vocabulary for the Workplace is a short course designed to develop your confidence in your communication skills. The course has a strong English language proficiency focus and is aimed at developing your grammar and vocabulary skills in preparation for an English-speaking workplace. On successful completion of this course, you will receive a digital Certificate of Attendance. To qualify for the certificate, a minimum of 80% attendance is required.
This 20-hour course runs over ten weeks (2 hours per week) and classes are synchronously timetabled. Each class will be held from 1pm - 3pm on Wednesdays (online) for ten weeks. All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). You will be actively engaged in task-orientated activities which develop and consolidate language and communication skills that are highly valued in the workplace. You will receive personalised feedback on your participation in these activities. Activities in this course include:
- Situational dialogues reflecting workplace scenarios
- Analyses of English grammar
- Short quizzes
- Proofreading and error correction
What you will learn
You will learn a range of relevant vocabulary and grammatical structures to boost your confidence and competence in communicating in an English-speaking workplace, including:
- vocabulary for clarity and appropriateness in Australian workplace & cultural setting
- grammatical structures for clarity & precision in workplace interactions
- language usage in accordance with appropriate formality
- vocabulary & grammatical structures to boost confidence in spontaneous interactions
Lessons
- Course introduction
- Workplace quiz
- Past tenses: form & usage
- Phrasal verbs structure
- Phrasal verbs in workplace communication
- Storytelling
- Workplace dialogue
- Vocabulary in context including workplace idioms
- Reading and key word transformation
- Past tense for hypotheticals
- Personalised production practice
- Workplace dialogue
- Structure and purpose of collocations
- Vocabulary in context: sustainability in the workplace
- Workplace dialogue using collocations
- Verb, noun and adjective patterns & structure
- Key word transformation and vocab building
- Standard verbs v. phrasal verbs
- Comparatives: structure & production practice
- Formality in the workplace (register
- Formal language v. phrasal verbs
- Vocab building and reading
- Purpose and use in the workplace
- Idioms of colour
- Idioms v phrasal verbs
- Reading and workplace dialogue
- Review of workplace collocations in the workplace
- Vocabulary building
- Modal verbs: functions and structure
- Workplace dialogue
- Quiz and workplace dialogue
Meet your instructor
Glenn Johnson is an English Language instructor with over 25 years of experience delivering courses and creating curriculum in a range of areas.
These areas include general English, English for academic purposes, exam preparation, and workplace language support.
Glenn also utilises his training as a qualified drama instructor to deliver a drama-based language support program at the University of Tasmania.