Number Crunching

Number crunching

What you’ll learn:

  • How to understand and use numbers correctly
  • Secrets of natural pronunciation
  • Ordinal numbers, cardinal numbers, fractions & decimals
  • Talk about dates & telephone numbers naturally
  • Talk about units of British money

Future Forms 2

Future Forms 2

What you’ll learn:

  • How to talk about a change of decision
  • How to talk about future plans and intentions
  • How to talk about fixed future arrangements in your diary

Future Forms 1

Future forms 1

What you’ll learn:

  • How to make spontaneous offers and decisions
  • How to pronounce these forms naturally
  • Informal vocabulary for socialising

Talking about Graphs

Talking about graphs

What you’ll learn:

  • Key verbs to describe graphs and results
  • Practical Prepositions
  • Adverbs that show the degree of change
  • Past simple tense review, including emphatic auxiliary verbs
  • Natural pronunciation of all the above

Presentations 1

Presentations 1

What you’ll learn:

  • Understand & use the language of presenting
  • Presentation technique: Introducing yourself & your agenda
  • Presentation technique: Moving from one topic to the next
  • Engagement through drama: Maximising stress, rhythm & intonation

Presentations 2

Presentations 2

What you’ll learn:

  • Rhetorical questions
  • Tripling techniques
  • How to create engagement
  • How to use supplementary media
  • How to create rapport

Presentations 3

Presentations 3

What you’ll learn:

  • The language for Q&A sessions that follow a presentation
  • How to create questions that make an impact
  • How to handle difficult questions
  • How to understand and use hidden messages or subtext

Elena

Brief info I’m passionate about helping my clients to connect with their Mexican, Latin American and Hispanic audiences worldwide. I’m a qualified Mexican Spanish translator, voiceover artist and cultural trainer. Personal fact I love mindfulness and yoga and I’ve been practising it for more than 15 years. As a qualified yoga teacher and coach, I …

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Thierry

Brief info I started enjoying languages as soon as I was 11 when I learnt English. I then learnt German, 2 years later, Russian (trying my best!) at University and some Spanish, so it is all natural for me to want to share my passion for languages by teaching my own: French! I’ve been doing …

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Sian

Brief info I joined the translation industry in 1991 after graduating from the University of Wales in 1990, working initially as an in-house translator before moving on to a Head of Translation role in order to gain business and project management experience. I’ve been a freelance translator for over 20 years now, and even after …

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