This course gives you the necessary skills for effective oral and written communication in English in any professional situation. Specialist course materials help you practise English in business contexts such as making presentations, telephoning, handling facts and figures and attending conferences in any field including Marketing and Advertising, Finance and Accounting or Management and Planning. You also become familiar with the language and vocabulary needed to socialise with colleagues and business associates.

Specialist teachers with qualifications in law can design a course for law students and lawyers. This combines General English and English for Law. Lessons include dialogue and reading exercises, illustrating the most typical usages of legal English and different aspects of English law. Many courses include a visit to the law courts.

In addition, specialised courses deal with one particular area of expertise and the English required to practise it. Courses include Medical English, English for the Hotel and Catering Industry, English for Engineers, English for bankers and English for Insurance.

                   DIPLOMA IN PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH – starting shortly

Written for those who NEED to use ADVANCED English IN BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIALLY. The Program covers a wide range of topics which are most important in speaking, reading and writing good English of an Advanced standard, both in everyday situations and in the workplace: whether that is in business, industry or government service. Those who thoroughly study and complete this Program should soon be able to speak and write good English of an advanced standard quite naturally, and show that they have the education and training which employers want to find in staff destined for promotion, and which gives confidence to customers and clients.

Major topics covered in this Diploma Program

• Writing clear and easy to understand; spelling English words.

• Forming complete and sensible sentences: statements, questions and commands, paragraphs.

•  The parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions.

•  Avoiding problems with commonly confused English words, using and English-English dictionary.

•  Developing a good writing style.  Writing social and private letters: enquiries, complaints, replies.

•  Business letter writing: features, layouts, objectives, tones, styles; first-approach letters and replies. 

Award and achievement

Students have a choice. They can opt to follow the course at Future Focus with notes provided by Future Focus or can (at a higher fee):

• Complete a professional Program of Study with Cambridge International College.

• Be awarded the  CIC Diploma on Professional English.

• Have covered – although this is  a ‘practical’ oriented Program – the majority of the technical/practical syllabuses of examinations similar to GCE ‘A’ level and other held nationally or internationally.

• Have substantially improved your ability to gain an International Honours Graduate Diploma.

The participant is expected to attend fifteen training sessions, which will be held once weekly at Future Focus. Assignments form part of the course, which will finish off with a final examination.

Duration: 14 sessions of 2 hours duration each

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