General Business English on Skype
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You can have lessons combined with any other areas of interest: Conversational English, Pronunciation, Accent Reduction or Exam Preparation. If you have a specific area you want to work on, your English teacher will prepare and write a course just for YOU – don’t hesitate to ask!
Typically, our General English on Skype lessons cover the following topics:
Conversational Business English:
• Talking about yourself and others
• Describing people – physical appearance, character
• Describing your company
• Describing your role in the company
• Numbers – ordinal and cardinal
• Time – dates, timetables, making appointments and changing appointments
• Travel – modes, key functional language, business trips
• Hotels – making a reservation
• Directions – asking/giving
• Describing frequency
• Everyday conventions: greetings, time-keeping, making phone calls, meals, etc
• Telephoning – key phrases; making and receiving a call; taking a message
• Small talk – brief conversations and keeping the conversation going
• Talking to clients
• The weather – climate, temperature, forecasts, change
• Money – types, bills, accounts, banks
• Essential English for business travellers
• Writing memos and e-mails
• Word and sentence stress and intonation
• Structural Content / Grammar
• Word order, word building and building longer sentences
• Complex prepositions: phrasal & mixed types
• Linking words
Business English:
• Industry insight and industry related vocabulary
• Company structure
• Looking at the different departments of the company
• Welcoming visitors
• Office policy and workers’ roles
• Daily routines – common activities at work
• Meetings: one to one/ chairing a meeting/ taking part
• Common business related idioms
• Body language and gestures
• National traditions
• Taboos
• Intercultural Communication
• Business Culture
• Social Life
Business communications:
• Language of opinion
• Persuasion and dissuasion
• Setting priorities
• Dealing with enquiries
• Issuing and responding to invitations
• Conversational strategies
• Presenting information – style and structure
• Using clear and direct language
• Delivering good and bad news
• Making small talk
• Presentations
• Describing change
• Impact in one-to-one situations
• Coaching in written English
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1. Online English language coaching (via Skype or in Virtual English Classroom for groups):
~ Cambridge and Trinity exam preparation
~ Work related English coaching tailored to industry and business requirements (English for job interviews; English for Banking and Finance; Medical English; English for Business Executives; English for Hospitality and Tourism; English for Accounting, IT, HR or Personal Assistants; English for Construction; English for non-native teachers of English; English for Marketing; English for Sales and Purchasing etc)
~ Online General English tuition for any level and any age from young children to mature students
2. English language courses in London: General / Business English, Exam preparation, Teacher Training course, International Summer Camp for teenagers
3. Guardianship services for international students attending boarding schools in the UK, and full school and university placement service
4. English Proofreading services - business and academic
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