Let‘s look at some useful phrases for talking about improving our skills at work.
Things to work on
Improving yourself
Use phrases like these to talking about how you would like to improve in your work.
work on my presentation skills
do a course in software development
learn how to wirte a business plan
learn more about business processes
lead a project
deliver a training session
take part in a management meeting
create a new website design
work with the design team
Now you‘ll practice phrases for making improvements and gaining experience.
Let‘s look at ways to talk about future development opportunities and plans.
Use phrases like these to talk about you plans for professional development.
I plan to deliver training sessions for the sales team.
I‘m going to deliver training sessions for the sales team.
I‘m going to work on my presentation skills this quarter.
I intend to do an online course in sales and marketing.
My intention is to work with the sales team a lot more.
I‘ve decided to create a new project plan.
I‘m looking at learning how to be an engineer.
If your plans are less fixed,use expressions like these.
I‘d be interested in developing my interpersonal skills.
I‘d like to work on my time management.
You can use the first conditional to express a realistic possibility.
Use if + present tense in the conditina clause,and a modal like will or can in the result clause.
If you do the course,you will need to put in extra hours.
If you want to learn more about design,you can work with the design team.
The clauses can be swapped around.When this happens,no comma is necessary.
You can work with the design team if you want to learn more about design.
You can replace the modal verb(like will or can) with verbs like plan to,intend to,would like to and want to.
If I have time,I plan to learn how to code software.
Use the second conditional to talk about something that seems less likely.Use if + past tense in the condition clause,and a verb like would,could or might in the result clause.
If you did a course in design,you‘d need to put in extra hours.
Notice again that the two clauses can be swapped around.
I would travel more if i worked less.
Use were,not was,in the condition clause.
If I were you,I‘d learn how to write a project plan.
In spoken English,it‘s common to leave the if clause of the sentence unspoken.The text in parenttheses in these examples contains the unspoken if clause.
Can you delever more traning?
Hmm.(if I agree to deliver the presentation,)I‘ll have to delay the other project.
I‘d like to use the Paris team.
Good idea.But you‘d need to change your working hours(if you worked with them).原文：https://www.cnblogs.com/eistert37/p/14861063.html