These courses are now being designed by experts in specific industries and will be aimed at students who want their English lessons to be directly relevant to their daily working life.

Distinctive features:

• Incorporates GEM learning materials
• progression through proficiency levels
• Focus on vocabulary, reading texts and listening exercises that are based on your industry

Industries that will be covered:

• Finance
• IT
• Law
• Telecommunications
• Medicine

Available from October.

Talking Point: Finance

This is a 14 session speaking and listening course designed for people in the Finance industry. It can be used with or without GEM courses. Included are several finance-related homeworks.

1. Making Conversation
   • Greeting & introducing people
   • Starting and making conversation.
   
   
2. Meetings and Discussions
   • Vocabulary of meetings
   • Asking for and giving opinions
   • Agreeing and disagreeing
   • Expressing uncertainty.
   
   
3. Negotiations and Negotiating 1:
   • Prepare
   • Discuss
   • Propose
   
   
4. Negotiations and Negotiating 2:
   • Bargain
   • Settle
   • Conclude.
   
   
5. Presentations 1
   • Starting and finishing a presentation.
   
   
6. Presentations 2
   • Discussing making presentations
   • Describing charts, graphs and trends
   • Pronunciation skills.
   
   
7. Project Finance
   • Discussing proposals
   • examining case studies.
   
   
   
   

8. Financial news and tips: communication exercises:
   • Verbally considering credit lines
   • Orally relating business news
   • Expressing ideas
   
   
9. Practice Listening
   • Listening skills and speaking skills reviewed
   • Predicting and listening for specific information
   
   
10. Interview Preparation and Roleplays 1:
    • Appraisals
    • Motivational purposes
    • Vocal preparation for interviews
    
    
11. Industries: airports, transport, etc
    • Relating articles and the latest project finance news through group participation input
    
    
12. Banking Documents:
    • Describing and explaining banking documents
    
    
13. Bank Operation:
    • The functions and internal processes of investment banking
    
    
14. Interview Preparation and Roleplays 2:
    • Interview practice
    • What to say, how to say it and when to say it.

• See our available course list
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• Technical support