Classic
5 NIGHT STAY
30 HOURS 1-1 TUITION
* Please note each programme is
customised to the clients' requirements.
Monday
9:30
12:30
You: Presentation of your company and job
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
Key words and expressions related to:
Company and job description
New ideas: Presenting an idea/product
or service
Language at work: Practising language to explain, compare, illustrate a concept and manage Q&A
Focus: Expressing present and future
Key words and expressions: Linking devices
for smooth structure
Conference calls: Discuss the difficulties of
this type of communication
Language at work: Practising language to: explain procedures, make suggestions, summarise, interrupt and ask for clarification
Focus: Modal verbs – obligation and prohibition
Key words and expressions: Conference calls
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
Leadership: Discuss qualities of leaders
and styles, managing motivating and communicating with teams
Language at work: Giving a briefing, practising language to express concerns, ask for assurances, involve people
Course summary and recommendations for further study
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
Language at work: Practising functional language to offer, decline, allocate task etc.
Focus: Present perfect and past simple
Key words and expressions: Collocations with schedule/deadline/budget
Decision time: Participating in meetings
and discussions
Language at work: Putting forward your idea, clarifying, reformulating, asking for repetition
Focus: 1st and 2nd conditionals and various conditional expressions, Key words and expressions
Agreeing and disagreeing
Culture: Discuss experiences and culture differences
Language at work:
Narrating past events, explaining the situation using the past tenses accurately
Focus:
Narrative tenses: past continuous, past simple and past perfect
Key words and expressions:
Cultural differences
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
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
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
Optional late
night shopping in
Tunbridge Wells
Free time to catch up with work and
to review the
day’s lesson
Friday
Relax and enjoy lunch conversing
on social topics
with your tutor,
in a typical English restaurant