Reading in the L2 Class

Reading English for Specific Purposes or Business use

ESSAY TITLE: You have a fairly advanced class consisting of the family dependents of businessmen, engineers and administrators who are going to be sent to English-speaking countries in the near future and whose families will be going with them.

a) Try to list some of the forms of written English your students will have to deal with in the English-speaking environment.

• forms e.g. immigration
• bank account
• social security
• NI tax
• maps
• A-Z plans
• guides
• letters
• invitations
• newspapers
• TV journal
• magazines
• signs
• underground
• place names
• notices
• hospitals
• timetables for train & bus
• parcels
• messages
• advertisements
• recipes
• instruction manuals
• literature
• dictionaries
• phrase books
• e-mails
• diaries
• political pamphlets

b) Find one piece of material which could be used to practise the skills needed and write the lesson plan for a lesson or section of a lesson based on this material.