Your colleagues and yourself can be trained by our native-speaking fully-qualified English tutors at a time and location to suit you. Classes can take place any day, even weekends, and can happen in the morning, afternoon or evening. If the case may be that your home or office is not convenient, there is always the option to take your classes at the office of your teacher. Study books for the lesson are provided.
This set of English tutorials are less specific and more targeted at those who want to get a range of different things from learning English. Even though all novice students will cover survival English: enough English to make a visit to the country or make good contacts with the locals, but what do you do from there? It depends on your needs. Those who have benefitted from these lessons have been those moving or investing overseas, spouses of overseas nationals, people who love to travel all over the world, those interested in English culture, and those who just want to pass a specific examination in English.
These lessons in English are meant for those that feel that learning English would make a change in their work. For starters, it is expedient to learn how to say hello/goodbye, as well as basic business protocol; once the basics have been mastered, reading and writing come to the fore. Students who have greatly benefitted have been involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where another language is required, and those working in the international academia and government circuits. Even on our most fundamental beginner's lesson, students can anticipate ending the lesson with basic telephone English and e-mail English skills for communicating, as well as survival English if a short visit to the country is needed.
Lessons in English are also accessible for 2 or more studying in tandem (Two-to-One English Lesson or Small Group In-Company English Lesson). All those involved must have around the same experience of the language, similar needs of areas of proficiency, and must be able to work at the same time and place. Bookings must be made for all students at the same time. Listen & Learn do not advise classes of more than 6-8 people, although In-Company Taster English sessions can be run with as many as 12 people.
The worldwide spread of English is primarily thanks to the reach of the British Empire and the USA's growing worldwide influence after the Second World War
English vocabulary derives from many sources, though primarily Latin, Ancient Greek, French and old Germanic tongues
Almost 90% of children in Europe learn English at school as a foreign language
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Here are some important things to remember if you are giving a presentation.
Before:
First you need to summarise your three or four main points. After this, find out about your audience: Who are they? How many of them will there be? It is also vital that you research the topic you will be doing your presentation on (the internet, reports and ideas from colleagues are all good places to start)
Prepare your talk:
It can be very helpful to write the presentation out in full putting the main points on key cards. Please make sure you write clearly so that you can read your notes easily. Another important undertaking is to number each of your key cards so that if you drop them you can rearrange them easily.
Decide well in advance if you need to use visual aids or not. Projectors, computer graphics, handouts and flipcharts are all good materials to use. Be sure to write things big enough so that people at the back of the room can read it.
Practise:
Try recording your presentation into a tape recorder or ask a friend to be your audience and to give you feedback at the end.
It can do no harm to test the equipment in the presentation venue beforehand ? imagine turning up only to find that the projector is not working and you have no handouts to give the audience!
During:
Speak slowly and clearly and try to not let your nerves run away with you. Maintaining eye contact is also very important.
After:
Be sure to ask the audience if they have any questions they would like to ask and try to give them a proper response each time.
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Boston is the capital city of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and the biggest city in New England, housing around 600,000 people - though as the economic center of the region the city's population often swells to around 1.2 million during the day. The city is very cosmopolitan in terms of the cultures littered around the metropolitan area - there are sizeable communities of Irish, Italian, West Indian, Vietnamese, Bosnian and Croatian people, meaning there are different languages being spoken throughout Boston. With its reputation as a great hub of learning in the area (more than 100 colleges and universities are found in the Greater Boston Area), the city is a superb location to learn a new language.