Our courses

Our standard company courses cover all aspects of English language training. You may find that they meet your needs (for instance, for training in telephoning in English) in full.

If not, we tailor a course for your specific needs. Many of our company clients need this flexibility: their staff are free at particular times only, one employee needs to prepare an important presentation in English, another needs intensive language and cultural preparation for a period of work abroad, while a group of technicians need help understanding technical manuals from a foreign supplier . . .

We develop courses to meet your specific needs:

• Subject matter:

  General English? Presentation techniques? Technical English (in your company's field)? Negotiating? Cultural preparation for work in Britain or the USA?

• Times:
  

  1x weekly? Regular sessions? A weekend course? One week's intensive training?
  Starting tomorrow (feel free to enquire)?

• Medium:

  Our trainers come to you? We use e-mail? Telephone combined with an internet chat window?
  Conferencing software, with a whiteboard and file-sharing?

• Methods:

  Probably not the way it is done at school: there isn't time, and the aims are different. Instead, the training is based on real work situations (office or production facility). We simulate and practise the ways you need to communicate with your business contacts. We work on the vocabulary and - occasionally - grammar that you will need. We use all the traditional methods, and a few new ones (games, role-playing, video, computers . . .).

Needs analysis

To maximise the effectiveness of the training, we audit your language needs. What do you and your staff know now, and what do you need to know? When do you use English, and who do you need to talk to?

Translation:

We can also cater for your translation and interpretation needs.