English for Specific Purposes

These courses are designed to suit a variety of needs and objectives, but will commonly include a focus on professional and commercial communication skills, negotiating styles and techniques, presentations skills, social English, and writing skills, but most importantly place great emphasis on the vocabulary and expressions needed to effectively communicate in your field. We offer small group classes or individually designed one-to-one lessons, or a combination of small group plus one-to-one lessons.

These courses can be combined with Premium courses (General English) or Executive courses (Business English) with a range of options available. Please contact us so we can organize the best course for you.

*Available from September 2010

Legal English

The course focuses on a variety of legal topics including the following:

Contracts

Company formation

Debtor-creditor relationships

Intellectual property rights

Employment law

Real Property Law

Secured Transactions

The aim of the course is to prepare lawyers and law students to work internationally in commercial law.

The course focuses on using English in a commercial law environment and can help with preparation for the International Legal English Certificate (Cambridge ILEC) with the development of the four key skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Financial English

A wide range of topics will be covered in this course:

Risk Assessment

Auditing

Budgetary processes

Mergers and Acquisitions

Taxation

Insurance

International Banking

Pricing and Purchasing

The objective of the course is to improve your abilities to discuss essential financial topics using authentic, clear, simple, accurate, modern English.

The course involves a combination of practical exercises using study texts, brief videos and short role-plays to introduce and practise various language areas of company finance, banking operations, investment and economics.

Aviation English

Course participants will build specialized vocabulary and phraseology and develop the following ICAO skill sets:

Navigation

Time duration and Schedules

Cargo, materials and fire

Cabin crew

Landings

Landings

Meteorology

Aerodromes

Security

The aim of this course is to help pilots and air traffic controllers to reach ICAO level 4.

The course is suitable for people who work in the aviation industry and need to comply with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) language proficiency requirements.

• Executive Courses - For professionals to improve their practical English skills for business such as presenting, negotiating and having meetings in English.
  
  
• Premium Courses - To improve participants’ general English and develop communicative skills and social English. Lessons will also focus on vocabulary building, grammar and pronunciation.