The British Council’s Business Training Services department organises tailor-made courses for companies, onsite and offsite.
Business Communication Skills:
Modular courses for maximum flexibility. Select the topic areas you need to focus on to improve. We will work with you to construct your training course.
-Presentations & Public Speaking
-Meetings & Negotiation
-Telephoning in English & Teleconference
-Writing e-mails
-Social English and Intercultural approach
Specialist courses:
from legal to financial English, from journalism to politics and much more
Academic English / IELTS Preparation:
Training for University and post -graduated students
Exam preparation :
for globally-recognised certification in Business English, General English, Legal English and other areas, such as the Cambridge ESOL exam suite (First Certificate, CAE, Proficiency, IELTS), a passport to the world of work and tertiary study.
English for Professionals and Teacher:
high level training for Companies, Universities, Public Institutions
General English
Your company may alternatively opt to enrol staff in our standard courses. If you want more info please call 0277222202
Why choose the British Council?
Highly experienced teachers
Our teachers are all highly qualified with certifications in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (University of Cambridge CELTA and DELTA). They all have experiences of teaching in different professional areas. A high level of specialisation: We satisfy the specific needs of professionals working in all sectors: from the financial to the legal world, from scientific to technical English, from marketing to human resources: we match experienced teachers to each client’s requirements. Quality control of teaching standards and continual training of teaching staff.
Cutting edge teaching methodology.
Our teaching method is an eclectic mix of the most recent innovations in language teaching methodology and is based on the latest findings in linguistic research. We realise that no one method suits everyone: our teachers select the best from various methods according to the learning styles and needs of their students.
Our teaching programmes are designed to:
-develop all four basic language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) with special emphasis on confidence and oral fluency
-help students to understand how the language works through activity based tasks
-create opportunities to actively use the language through pair and group work
-help students to develop language learning strategies appropriate to their own personal learning styles
-teach students to become autonomous learners so that they can take every opportunity to improve their communicative competence
Personalised course programmes.
-level assessment and training needs analysis
-made to measure course programme based on client objectives and trainng needs
-choice of appropriate training materials
-constant ongoing evaluation, counselling and progress checks
-personalised end of course report and attendance certificate
The training needs analysis and ongoing course evalutaion are key to the objectives being achieved. Our courses are made to measure and based on the result of the level assessment and objectives set out at the start of the course with the teacher.
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