Monday

9:30

12:30

You: Presentation of your company and job

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Discuss your specific English requirements, set goals and establish ways to effectively achieve them in time allocated

Language at work: Verb & time marker review using your current and past experience

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Key words and expressions related to:

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Company and job description

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New ideas: Presenting an idea/product
or service

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Language at work: Practising language to explain, compare, illustrate a concept and manage Q&A

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Focus: Expressing present and future

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Key words and expressions: Linking devices
for smooth structure

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Conference calls: Discuss the difficulties of
this type of communication

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Language at work: Practising language to: explain procedures, make suggestions, summarise, interrupt and ask for clarification

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Focus: Modal verbs – obligation and prohibition

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Key words and expressions: Conference calls

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Facts and Figures: Exchanging information

Language at work: Asking for and explaining factual and numerical information,

Focus: Reported speech review

Key words and expressions: Revision figures/symbols

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Leadership: Discuss qualities of leaders
and styles, managing motivating and communicating with teams

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Language at work: Giving a briefing, practising language to express concerns, ask for assurances, involve people

Course summary and recommendations for further study

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Lunch

12:30

13:30

Relax and enjoy lunch conversing
on social topics
with your tutor,
in a typical English restaurant

Relax and enjoy lunch conversing
on social topics
with your tutor,
in a typical English restaurant

Relax and enjoy lunch conversing
on social topics
with your tutor,
in a typical English restaurant

Relax and enjoy lunch conversing
on social topics
with your tutor,
in a typical English restaurant

Afternoon

13:30
16:00

Meetings: Updating and delegating tasks

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Language at work: Practising functional language to offer, decline, allocate task etc.

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Focus: Present perfect and past simple 

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Key words and expressions: Collocations with schedule/deadline/budget

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Decision time: Participating in meetings
and discussions

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Language at work: Putting forward your idea, clarifying, reformulating, asking for repetition

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Focus: 1st and 2nd conditionals and various conditional expressions, Key words and expressions

Agreeing and disagreeing

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Culture: Discuss experiences and culture differences

Language at work:

Narrating past events, explaining the situation using the past tenses accurately

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Focus:

Narrative tenses: past continuous, past simple and past perfect

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Key words and expressions: 
Cultural differences

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Change: Talking about change in your company

Language at work, Practising presenting future plans, making informed predictions, being negative diplomatically

Focus: Future tenses and probability

Key words and expressions: Phrasal verbs related to change

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Departure: According to your travel arrangements

A full progress report will be sent to you and your corresponding training manager

NB: Often, the students are now required to take the Bulats Test, we make an earlier start on Friday (8am) to accommodate this.

Activity

16:00

19:00

A visit around historical part
of town

Free time to catch up with work and

to review the
day’s lesson

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Optional visit to Spa Fitness Centre

Free time to catch up with work and 

to review the day’s lesson

Free time to catch up with work and

to review the
day’s lesson

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Optional late
night shopping in 

Tunbridge Wells

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Free time to catch up with work and 

to review the
day’s lesson