Courses

We offer single-day or full- week intensive English programmes.

The classes are centred on your personal progress  and will, above all, be adapted to your professional needs.

The content will include material from daily sources like Internet, the written English-speaking press, audio and television recordings  (BBC or CNN).

The basic programme, drawn up specifically for your pre-evaluated level, teaches the English necessary to:

-Construct inter-cultural relationships eg: social conversations in business situations.

-Telecommunications: telephoning, e-mailing using the appropriate language and format.

-Presentations: language linked to the techniques and preparation of presentations, to the use of visual aids, how to link ideas, conversation flow, summarizing and concluding.

-Meetings: making a meeting efficient using the language necessary to lead it, define aims, take decisions, handle interruptions, clarify positions, and conclude the meeting.

-Negotiations: understanding the different types of negotiations, preparation and opening, argumentation, conceeding, rejection or accepting, confirming a transaction, managing conflicts, summarizing and concluding.

-Role playing: essential to acquiring the necessary confidence to express yourself in appropriate language in each the above-mentioned situations.

All the above is done within the framework  of made-to-measure lessons adapted to your personal needs in terms of programme, comprehension, grammar, expression and vocabulary.

These lessons will generally take place from 9a.m to 1 p.m with a coffee break and chat.

From 1 p.m to 2.30p.m lunch will be eaten in a restaurant with one or more English-speaking teachers. Evaluation together of the morning lessons.

Afternoons

The afternoons will be used to continue the morning work with role-playing (CD recordings), consolidation and with the possibility to work on appropriate internet sites, or using the daily press

It is possible to visit regional businesses, in English, such as wine farms, a chocolate factory, etc...

Certain afternoons will be used to visit the region in English using the everyday language and knowledge you always need in business,  for those relationships that are so often weaved outside of the workplace , where most transactions are really won!

The diversity of the cultural sites, all within easy reach of the training centres, will definitely satisfy all tastes, and will give you an interest in the English for culture, architecture, local heritage etc..

In Provence we could visit Avignon or  the Pont du Gard and its museum, or Baux de Provence with its Cathedral of Images.

In the Perigord, Montignac with the Lascaux Prehistoric Caves or Sarlat and its medieval town centre.                   

Depending on the programme, dinner might be taken certain evenings with one or more teachers, and from time to time with their English friends.

As well as your "free" evenings, we organise certain theme evenings, films in English, or mini-conferences followed by discussion, eg: discovering the English speaking countries, where our teachers have lived (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Australia or England).