Learn English Online with Expert Teachers

Course Objectives

This course will help you perform more confidently when interacting in English. We will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and improve the skills necessary for successful English language proficiency.

Using authentic English materials such as magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, websites, this course will help you to develop your English language and communication skills while working on your pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.

Course Content

Your course will be designed based on the results from your placement test and needs analysis. Topics typically covered in this course include:

Speaking

Making yourself understood. Fluency building; rhythm and pace. Conversation skills, telephoning, enquiring and explaining.

Reading

Reading for gist and purpose: understanding the main points. Scanning: finding specific information. Skimming: judging the usefulness of a text.

Writing

Organising a paragraph, structuring a text; signposting. Informal text types: notes, emails, stories, journals, reviews. Formal text types: letters, essays, reports, articles, forms.

Listening

Active listening strategies in conversation. Listening for detail: gathering specific information. Listening for themes: understanding the main ideas.

Grammar

Tense and aspect: past, present, future; perfect; passive vs active. Grammar words: articles, prepositions, adverbs, pronouns, auxiliary verbs. Relative clauses, modals and conditionals to express more sophisticated concepts.

Vocabulary

Strategies for building vocabulary: suffixes, prefixes. Word families, synonyms and antonyms. Phrasal verbs, colloquialisms and collocation.

Pronunciation

The 46 sounds of English – the phonemic chart. Syllables and words – putting the sounds together. Word and sentence stress; intonation.

Course Objectives

The aim of the course is to raise and consolidate your knowledge of business English to help you perform better in the workplace. The course focusses on practical business communication skills such as telephoning, emailing, taking part in meetings, presenting, negotiating and socialising.

We use a range of authentic materials, including presentations, graphs, news articles and other realia to help you operate in the real world. Lessons are designed so that you can put newly acquired skills into practice instantly.

Course Content

Your course will be designed based on the results from your placement test and needs analysis. Topics typically covered in this course include:

What do you do?

Talking about jobs and responsibilities. Your work and life situation – grammar review.

Trends

Describing changes and trends. Describing diagrams and charts. Adverbs and adjectives.

Telephoning

Exchanging information. Real telephone English and standard phrases. Checking understanding – repetition and clarification. Active listening – showing interest and understanding.

Emails

Openings and closings. Register – formal vs. informal. Email simulations – typical situations.

Meetings and Negotiations

Brainstorming and troubleshooting. The grammar of diplomacy and persuasion. Agreeing and disagreeing. Language patterns in meetings and negotiations. Steering the negotiation or meeting. Interrupting and preventing interruptions. Linking ideas and developing arguments (conjunctions). Generalising and indicating relevance.

Socialising and Networking Skills

The little words – discourse markers narration. Conversation features and skills. Small talk.

Presentations

Rhetoric – making an impact. Fixed expressions. Mapping the presentation. A 10 point presentation plan – preparing your presentation. Live presentation and feedback.

Questions & Answers

Questioning strategies. The questioning funnel.

Metaphor and Idiom

Common fixed expressions and useful phrases.

Course Objectives

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) is the world's most popular English language test with more than 2 million tests taken each year. The IELTS test is perfect if you want to study or work where English is the language of communication, or for immigration purposes.

This course will raise and consolidate your knowledge of the General or Academic IELTS exam and will improve your language awareness and skills to help maximise your potential. All four parts of the exam – Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are covered in detail, and tips and techniques are introduced to help you best demonstrate your language skills to the examiner. Includes access to the British Council Road to IELTS package.

Course Content

Your course will be designed based on the results from your placement test and needs analysis. Topics typically covered in this course include:

Speaking

Talking about yourself and a range of familiar topics. Preparing and talking about a particular topic. Discussing abstract ideas and issues.

Listening

Understanding main ideas and detailed factual information. Understanding the opinions and attitudes of speakers. Understanding the purpose of an utterance and following the development of ideas.

Writing

Summarising and explaining the information on a graph, table, chart or diagram. Describing and explaining data, the stages of a process, how something works, an object or event. Writing an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem.

Reading

Course Objectives

The Occupational English Test (OET) is an English language test for healthcare professionals.

Partnered with our authorised preparation and test centre, BSC Manchester, this online course shares their teaching excellence and will comprehensively prepare you for the OET which focuses on industry and workplace specific language. Tailored to your specific needs, the course is designed to build on skills and target language which healthcare professionals will encounter within the test and also in their everyday working life.

Our online OET lessons are designed to help you work on the skills you need to succeed in your OET exam. They are tailored to your specific learning needs – so whether you are new to OET or looking for support to help you retake your examination, we can help you!

Course Content

The OET is split into four parts – Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening – each of which can be covered within the course.

Your course will be designed based on the results from your placement test and needs analysis. Topics typically covered include:

Speaking

The speaking exam assesses students' ability to communicate effectively in the workplace (e.g. building relationships with your patients) in the format of role plays. The course prepares for this aspect with many role play scenarios.

Listening

Understanding and listening to consultations and conversations you would hear in the workplace as well as talks/discussions on healthcare topics.

Writing

The writing exam assesses students' ability to communicate effectively when writing in a healthcare context (e.g. a letter of referral). Summarising, conveying information and describing symptoms in the correct with the correct language with a focus on writing within a healthcare context.

Reading

Developing reading skills on the types of texts you will find when working in healthcare, such as procedures, internal announcements and healthcare journals.

Classes are led by highly professional, qualified teachers from our British Council and English UK accredited schools. You will meet your teacher face-to-face through our powerful video conferencing software.Please note that the British Council is currently not able to offer accreditation for any online courses.

Lessons are interactive with a high level of student involvement. During the lessons you will interact with both your teacher and students from around the world.

Anytime, anywhere! Take your lessons from the comfort of your home, office, café or the airport departure lounge.

You will also receive access to myBSC, our online learning platform with 100s of hours of additional study material.

Your certificate in English can be a great door opener and a boost to your career.