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Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication
- Programme Overview
- Module 1 Interact successfully in oral communication
- Interacting in oral communication
- 1.1 Contributing to group work
- Activity 1: Contributing to group work
- 1.2 Interviewing
- Activity 2: Interviewing
- 1.3 Participate in formal meetings
- Activity 3: Participate in formal meetings
- 1.4 Participate in discussions, debates and negotiations
- Activity 4: Participate in discussions, debates and negotiations
- 1.5 Responding sensitively to differing socio-cultural contexts
- Activity 5: Responding sensitively to differing socio-cultural contexts
- Module 2 Use strategies that capture and retain the interest of an audience
- Capture and retain the interest of an audience
- Adapting language to suit different contexts, audiences and purposes
- 2.1 Techniques to reinforce the message
- Activity 6: Techniques to reinforce the message
- 2.2 Use body language
- Activity 7: Use body language
- 2.3 Plan formal communications
- Using formats, conventions, protocols and contexts
- 2.4 Use visual aids
- 2.5 Techniques to maintain continuity and interaction
- Activity 8: Plan formal communications
- Module 3 Identify and respond to manipulative use of language
- Identify and respond to manipulative use of language
- Using features and conventions
- 3.1 Identify and distinguish facts and opinions
- Activity 9: Identify and distinguish facts and opinions
- 3.2 Note and address omission of information
- 3.3 Affect the audience’s interpretations
- 3.4 Distortion of a contributor’s position
- Activity 10: Manipulative language
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Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS in a workplace, and its effects on a business sub-sector, own organisation and a specific workplace
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Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes
- Programme Overview
- Module 1 HIV/AIDS and its effects on the human immune system
- Know and understand HIV/AIDS and its effects on the human immune system
- 1.1 The terms HIV and AIDS
- 1.2 The way in which the immune system works
- 1.3 How the HIV virus attacks the immune system
- 1.4 The concept of a window period
- 1.5 The Elisa Test
- 1.6 Babies born to HIV/AIDS mothers
- 1.7 The concept of Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT)
- 1.8 The effects of HIV infection
- Lifestyle changes
- Preventing reinfection
- Ability of HIV + person to work
- 1.9 The importance of pre and post test counselling
- Making a personal decision to take an HIV test
- 1.10 The stages of the disease
- To summarise: The stages of infection are
- 1.11 The chances of a person surviving with AIDS
- Class Activity 1: Know and understand HIV/AIDS and its effects on the human immune system
- Write/present/sign texts for a range of communicative contexts
- Module 2 How HIV/AIDS is transmitted
- Know and understand how HIV/AIDS is transmitted
- 2.1 The effect of body fluids on transmission of the HIV virus
- 2.2 Sex as the most common way in which the HIV virus is transmitted
- 2.3 The ways in which mother to child transmission can occur
- The implications when a pregnant woman/girl has unprotected sex for herself and for her unborn child
- 2.4 Actions that an HIV positive mother can take
- 2.5 The dangers of drug abuse and behaviour that could result in HIV transmission
- Suggestions for limiting transmission
- 2.6 Precautions used in South Africa to ensure that blood products are HIV free
- Class Activity 2: Know and understand how HIV/AIDS is transmitted
- Module 3 Safe and risk behaviour related to HIV transmission
- Know what behaviour is safe and what behaviour carries the risk of HIV transmission
- 3.1 The relationship between human behaviour and HIV/AIDS
- 3.2 Ways in which the individual can avoid contracting or spreading HIV/AIDS
- 3.3 Examples of behaviours that carry a risk of contracting HIV/AIDS
- 3.4 Situations that have a potential to spread HIV/AIDS in the workplace
- 3.5 Fears and common misunderstandings about the transmission of HIV/AIDS
- 3.6 Behaviours and activities that carry a low risk of infection
- 3.7 The role of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the transmission of the HIV virus
- Class Activity 3: Know what behaviour is safe and what behaviour carries the risk of HIV transmission
- Module 4 Supporting workers with HIV/AIDS
- Know what guidelines and assistance are available to support workers with HIV/AIDS
- 4.1 Understanding company policy / guidelines
- 4.2 The possible problems that a worker with HIV/AIDS could encounter
- 4.3 The importance of employers playing a proactive role in addressing the AIDS pandemic
- 4.4 The availability of HIV/AIDS prevention and wellness programmes
- Medical schemes
- Wellness programmes
- 4.5 The treatment options available to a person with HIV/AIDS
- 4.6 The rights of all workers in respect of HIV/AIDS
- Rights of employees living with HIV or AIDS and the applicable law
- 4.7 The Universal Precautions
- 4.8 Draft a code of behaviour in the workplace and present it
- Class Activity 4: Know what guidelines and assistance are available to support workers with HIV/AIDS
- Module 5 The implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Know and understand the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Impact on the society
- Impact on the economy
- 5.1 The needs of AIDS orphans
- Resources available to AIDS orphans
- 5.2 The effect of a population composed mainly of children and the aged
- 5.3 The need for medical care for people with HIV/AIDS
- Implications for employers and the State
- 5.4 The effect of HIV/AIDS on the workforce and family income
- 5.5 The effect of HIV/AIDS for an organisation
- 5.6 The implications of HIV/AIDS for a specific workplace
- 5.7 The implications of HIV/AIDS for an industry sub-sector
- Class Activity 5: Know and understand the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
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Write texts for a range of communicative contexts
