Using Phrasal Verbs and Idioms Appropriately

The essential course to learn idioms and their usage in business writing.

Our Courses are Customized for Your Team.

Phrasal verbs are widely used in informal and even formal business writing and understanding how to use these terms is critical. As your team learns idioms and how to use them appropriately, your team’s business writing will more closely approximate “native-like” form. If you’ve ever imagined furniture when a committee chairperson “tables a discussion so that members can sit on the matter,” this course is for you.

Choose How to Take the Course:

Onsite
Virtual

In our instructor-led, customized onsite workshop, your team of non-native speakers will learn strategies to write documents that native English speakers will find easy to read and understand. The onsite courses are hosted at your facility and offered in one-, two-, or three-day sessions.

Learn more about onsite training here.

Course Objectives:

Identify differences in formality between phrasal verbs and non-phrasal synonyms
Understand the context for using phrasal and non-phrasal terms
Strategically implement and understand phrasal verbs
Understand the syntactic patterns for phrasal verb, objects, and object pronouns

In our instructor-led, customized virtual workshop, your team of non-native speakers will learn strategies to write documents that native English speakers will find easy to read and understand. These virtual sessions are offered in one-, two-, or three-hour sessions.

Learn more about virtual training here.

Course Objectives:

Identify differences in formality between phrasal verbs and non-phrasal synonyms
Understand the context for using phrasal and non-phrasal terms
Strategically implement and understand phrasal verbs
Understand the syntactic patterns for phrasal verb, objects, and object pronouns

Good training, idiomatic US expressions are hard to catch for non US natives.

Fabrice D.
- Verified Course Attendee

What To Expect

Before the Course

A deep dive by our analysts into your team’s documents
A customized proposal that outlines the topics we propose to cover based on this analysis
A discovery/planning call to ensure that our plan meets your vision
Pre- and post-class assessment (depending on the package you choose)

During the Course

In-class exercises that give participants opportunities to apply concepts
Breakout sessions in which participants work collaboratively to apply concepts and solve writing problems
Examples of your team’s rewritten workplace samples to illustrate concepts
Real-time feedback from the instructor on breakouts
Micro-learning sessions
Socratic discussion
Opportunities for participants to ask questions

After the course

Depending which option you choose, your team can expect:

Scores on their’ post-class assessment
Access to our digital library, which includes short videos, quizzes, and other resources
Access to Option 1 of one of our online courses
Office hours, so that participants can meet with the instructor, share work, and get personalized feedback
Forums, which is a chat room that participants can use to ask questions and get answers from our team of writing professionals
Personalized coaching and feedback

Why Improve Your Team’s Business Writing Skills?

Communicating effectively in English as a non-native speaker can be challenging, but it isn’t impossible. In our customized workshops, your team will learn the skills needed to master writing business documents in English.