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English Language Training
for Corporate Clients
- General English
- Business English
- Group English Courses
General English
We provide expert training in
general English at all levels, from beginner to advanced,
on a one-to-one basis or in groups.
For one-to-one courses, we tailor
the training to suit the requirements and interests of each
client. This means it moves at your speed, uses examples and
materials of interest and relevance to you, and can focus
more on speaking/listening or on writing/reading, depending
what you want.
We will teach you the grammar
you need to make English work for you and the functional language
of everyday life - for example: shopping, travelling, socialising,
dealing with problems, telephoning. We can also include any
aspects of business English that would be useful to you.
While we believe that grammar
is important, the emphasis is always on communication and
confidence-building.
Lessons may take place at our
school or at your workplace if it is difficult for you to
come to us. We recommend that you come to us if it is at all
possible because you will be away from all the distractions
of work.
Your course may be intensive
or longer-term, or a mixture. The timetable is flexible and
we design the course to give you the maximum benefit in the
most efficient way. If you have just moved to England and
speak little English, it would probably be useful for you
to begin with an intensive or semi-intensive programme, to
get you started. After that, you can cut back to two lessons
a week for a while and then just one, to keep you on track.
An intensive programme is 6
hours of lessons per day for a week. A semi-intensive programme
is 3 hours of lessons in either the morning or the afternoon,
for a week or two. If you are in a position to choose, we
recommend the semi-intensive programme because it gives you
more time to assimilate what you are learning.
The most important thing
is: please enrol as soon as
you can! If you learn English properly
from the beginning, you will speak much more accurately and
your life in England will be much easier. Don't make the mistake
of wanting to settle in first. If you pick up bad habits,
they are difficult to break and if you are struggling to live
and work in English, some lessons will help you a great deal.
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Business English
We provide expert training in
business English, on a one-to-one basis or in groups.
The course is tailor-made to
meet your specific requirements. You tell us what your job
involves and which areas you would like to explore and practise,
and we design the course accordingly. Where relevant, we will
also discuss and advise you on the cultural aspects of situations.
For example, you may want
to work towards being able to do the following in English
without fear of linguistic or cultural misunderstandings:
- make clear and successful
presentations
- speak and understand
on the telephone
- attend - or chair -
meetings
- negotiate with colleagues,
suppliers or clients
- interview a candidate
or be interviewed yourself
- write business letters,
e-mails and reports
- socialise with colleagues
or clients.
We create materials and roleplays
especially for you (and anything you tell us about your company
is treated in the strictest confidence).
Before you start learning business
language, we assume you will already have at least an intermediate
knowledge of general English but we can include in a business
English course any elements of grammar that you particularly
need or that are causing you problems.
Lessons may take place at our
school or at your workplace if it is difficult for you to
come to us. We recommend that you come to us if it is at all
possible because you will be away from all the distractions
of work.
The timetable is flexible.
Usually, it is more useful for you to take two or three lessons
a week for a few months than to try to learn business English
intensively. However if you have a big event, such as a conference,
coming up and need a lot of help with it in a short time,
we will be very happy to work intensively with you and make
sure you are well prepared.
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Group English Courses
If your company has a number
of foreign employees needing to learn English, we can teach
them in a group or groups, either at your workplace or at
our school.
This works well for business
English, which is fairly modular and each session stands alone,
to a sufficient extent.
However, over the years we have
found that general English group courses are not as successful
as one-to-one training. There are two main reasons for this.
Firstly, even in a small group, there is invariably someone
who missed the previous lesson and then either flounders or
holds the others back. Secondly, if the students are from
the same country, despite everyone's best intentions, they
speak to each other in their own language during the lessons.
It is far more beneficial for each person to have full immersion
in English for the whole of the session. In our experience,
40 lessons one-to-one are worth 100 lessons in a group.
If your work situation dictates
that a group course is the only possibility, this is obviously
much better than nothing. We will give each person as much
individual attention as possible and, as long as the students
are motivated, they will learn - just not as quickly as they
would one-to-one.
Please contact
us to discuss your requirements and circumstances and
together we can work out the most efficient way to get your
employees speaking English. We (JMJ) will assess each person's
level of English and then discuss with you how to arrange
the groups and set the timetable so as to cause minimum disruption
to your business.
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