A Trial Lesson is an economical way to meet and assess a teacher's ability to identify your specific needs and goals. Furthermore,  this short session helps the teacher to design a lesson plan specifically suited to the student.

Goal
To prepare you and build your confidence to answer the typical questions that may be asked during a job interview.

Objectives
- the student will be provided with many typical questions asked during an interview
- the student will develop their answers to typical interview questions
- Richard will evaluate the student-generated answers and make recommendations for improvement
- Richard will explain exactly what the interviewer wants to know and hear
- the student will practice answering the questions
- the student will gain confidence so that they are relaxed and prepared to tell the interviewer what the interviewer needs and wants to hear during the interview.

JOB INTERVIEW SKILLS - What the interviewer wants and needs to hear

Every profession and job has its own English vocabulary and writing and speaking style.
Learn the way Native English Speakers do business and perform their jobs.
Learn and start using the most common words, terms and action verbs used in business.

ENGLISH FOR WORK

Goal
This course, often referred to as "Train the Trainer", is designed to provide you with the skills needed to make effective business-related presentations.

Course Content
The Presentation Course teaches you how to develop (write) and deliver (present) an effective professional presentation/training course/instructional seminar and includes the documents and forms needed to carry out your presentation.

This training program is ideal for those who must make marketing, sales or informational presentations to staff, or provide instructions or employee training.

Course Outline and Description
It is suggested that you book a 30 minute Trial session (or informal tutoring session) to review the contents of the course.

PRESENTATION SKILLS for Business Meetings, Instructors, and Trainers

Introduction
   Verbs are the most important of the 9 Parts of Speech.
   97% of spoken and written English uses only 5 Verb Tenses.
   These 5 tenses are used in informal, business, and even academic speaking and writing.

Goal
   By the end of this short course,
   you will learn when to use and how to use these critical 5 tenses.

Objectives
   This short course will enable you to:
   -  recognize the 4 principle parts of verbs
   -  know the difference between regular and irregular verbs
   -  identify the most important tenses used in writing and speaking
   -  master the use of the 5 most common tenses (=97% of speaking and writing)
   -  develop the skill of using the correct verb tense in speech or in writing
   -  communicate effectively

The 5 Most Common Verb Tenses (97% of all tenses used)

GOAL
The goal is to give you the opportunity to speak, have errors corrected, and improve your speaking skills and confidence.

OBJECTIVES
Objectives are the tasks and exercises that will be used to help improve grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and sentence structure, and improve fluency and confidence in your speaking skills.
There are two Conversational Lesson Levels. You may choose from:
-  Conversational English - Level B1 (low intermediate level)
-  Conversational English - Level B2 to C2 (high intermediate to advanced level)

CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH - SPEAK, CORRECT, IMPROVE

GOAL
The goal of these lessons is to identify what you already know and identify what you need to improve.

OBJECTIVES
-  to test your knowledge of English grammar
-  to identify weaknesses that need to be improved

QUIZZES AND EXERCISES
The quizzes and exercises in these lessons have been specifically selected and organized into two levels: 
-  B1  Lower Intermediate Level,
-  B2 to C2  High Intermediate and Advanced Levels

These quizzes and exercises include:
-  images to describe
-  challenging quizzes that make to think and talk
-  videos that you watch and describe
-  exercises related to grammar topics

QUIZZES AND EXERCISES ARE FUN TO DO

QUIZZES AND EXERCISES  -  Practice what you need to improve

As a business consultant, I trained more than 35,000 company managers, supervisors, and employees.
As an ESL teacher, I have trained more than 1,000 ESL students, and the majority of my students are working professionals.

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This certificate is awarded to safety professionals who have completed the 6 hour examination with a passing grade of 75%.
I worked as a safety professional to more than 2000 companies from 1988 to 2016.
The work included the development of business policies, procedures, as well as training more than 35,000 company and government employees.
This work included business consulting related to business operations, finances, management and administration.