English in the Workplace training course (NEW)

ü  To increase the student’s comprehension of difficult texts, such as legal correspondence and contracts.

ü  To master the student’s comprehension of spoken English when used in meetings, presentations and discussions.

ü  To improve the student’s ability to write business texts in English namely letters, memos and minutes of meetings.

ü  To practice an analytical approach to a student’s writing by looking critically on written assignments.

ü  To expand the student’s vocabulary.

ü  To improve the student’s ability to speak effectively in various business situations, e.g.  Negotiations and discussion between clients and colleagues.

ü  To familiarise the student with various materials and practice selected tasks within areas of interest.

ü  To increase grammar awareness. 

[  Develop the ability of monitoring their speech when presenting business ideas.

[  Organise their presentations in a successful way, i.e. effectively use professional English, skillfully control his/her speech content and understand the use of body language.

[  Improve telephone skills.

[  Learn how to successfully lead business negotiations in English.

[  Increase reading comprehension by frequent exposure to different texts.

[  Improve scanning and skimming of documents and letters.

[  Understand the general meaning if the text contains unknown words or different terminology.

[  Practice pronunciation and intonation while doing reading exercises through reading out loud short passages from a text book.

[  Practise listening skills through a variety of listening tasks in business.

[  Improve recognition and comprehension of different English accents by listening to native speakers.

[  Learn how to grab the” gist” of a fast speech.

[  Practise effective note taking.

[  Improve the ability to jot down new words from a recording played.

[  Improve formal writing, i.e. business letters, corporate emails, contract drafts, memos, etc by writing frequent assignments of various types.

[  Summerise texts by learning how to make them formal or informal, i.e. to gain ability to skillfully rewrite a given plain text into plain English, formal or informal.

[  Practise correct spelling and punctuation by looking critically at their writing or by various exercises on error correction.

[  Using proper collocations, synonyms and antonyms naturally and effectively.

[  Practise coherence and learn how to avoid wordiness.

[  Learn the meaning of certain acronyms or Latin used in certain areas of business.

ü  To be aware of the difference between American and British spelling.

ü  To recognise stylistic features in a text.

ü  Master of Arts, Sociolinguistics of English

ü  Bachelor of Arts, Phonetics and Phonology

ü  Ethno-linguistics, Institute of Linguistics

ü  ESL Instructor – Business English, EduTec Training Centre

ü  Conducted Business English Training for QF personnel, Qatar Foundation

ü  Conducted Business English Writing BEW Training for Supreme Council of Health staff

ü  Writing Consultant & IELTS teacher, Texas A&M University at Qatar

ü  Teacher of the English language, Stenden University

ü  Conducted Academic Writing, General English, CJE NKJO Teacher Training College.

ü  Academic Teacher, Polonia University