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Communicating Effectively in English
General and working English for professionals
London, Wales, Brighton, New York, San Francisco
Typical course participants
This course is for professionals who want to develop their English in a work and social context, but who don’t need a strong commercial focus. Typical participants include: Engineers, Architects, IT professionals, Doctors, Administrators, Public officials, Journalists, Academics, Military and police.
This intensive course is less commercially focused and is available from a fairly low level. There is a strong focus on developing practical skills such as the English used for meetings and presentations alongside more general communication skills.
Available in private lessons, as a group course or combination course – mix of private and group lessons. Average age of participants: 39.
Course structure: part-time – 15 hours per week, group – 25 hours, combination 30 hours per week.
You can expect to improve your English in the following ways:
- communicate more confidently
- speak more accurately and fluently
- participate more successfully in meetings
- improve your written English including emails
- expand your professional vocabulary
- improve your understanding of grammar
- socialise and network with greater confidence
- work successfully in a cross-cultural environment
In addition to the benefits outlined above, you can expect to communicate more confidently in a range of life and work situations, participate more effectively in meetings, make better presentations, and use the telephone for effective communication.
Course content
Course participants can expect the following areas to be covered in the course:
- presentation about one's own work and organisational structure
- simulated meetings
- communication in a professional environment
- presenting figures and graphs and describing social and political trends
- comparing national economies, working practices and social conditions
- aspects of international relations including intercultural understanding
When working people are speaking with their counterparts, discussion often turns to broader matters. The course reflects this with practice in the context of a range of topical issues such as:
- current affairs
- social, political and environmental issues
- political systems and developments
- education and training
- advertising and the media
- technology and society
In order to give participants greater confidence in taking part in discussions and handling meetings and negotiations, time is usually spent looking at appropriate communication strategies such as:
- agreeing and disagreeing
- interrupting
- clarifying and confirming
- asking for comments
- summarising
- asking appropriate questions
- challenging/defending an opinion
- persuading and compromising
- making proposals, offers, suggestions
- opening/closing meetings
Professional hospitality, entertaining visitors and handling social situations are important for many professional people. Areas include:
- meeting and greeting
- dealing with enquiries and offering advice
- arranging and cancelling appointments/social engagements
- travel arrangements, bookings and reservations
- giving and understanding directions
- restaurants and pubs
- small talk
“We have been working with The Language House since its creation. It regularly organises immersion language courses in English, German and French that are tailored to the needs of our employees. The Language House has always shown great professionalism and efficiency at the highest level.”
“The Language House has worked with our bank for the past six years organising overseas language training courses and helping us maximise our training opportunities. We are extremely happy with the quality and efficiency of services provided by The Language House. We receive excellent feedback from employees who have completed English, French and German immersion courses.”
Bank Sarasin & Cie AG