English for Finance in New York City offers our students programs from a variety of financial backgrounds including banking, tax and accountancy.
English for Finance is offered as one-to-one private Platinum English language Course for Professionals. You can choose a private Platinim course with 15 or 20 one-to-one lessons a week. This course can be combined with mini-group General English and/or Business English Platinum courses. In this case, we recommend a combined Platinum Plus course. You will learn General and/or Business English in mini-group with other executives and professionals and English for Finance in private classes (you can choose 1 one-to-one lesson a day in addition to the group Platininum classes). English for Finance is also available as a closed mini-group course for 3 to 5 students arriving together.
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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9:00- 10:50
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Skill: Speaking / Listening
Introductions.
Professional profiles. Language assessment. Grammar review. Fine-tune course content
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Input: Vocabulary & Language of Presentations.
Skill: Speaking / Listening
Mini presentation on company structure, job responsibilities.
Questions from group.
Oral feedback
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Skill: Speaking
Expressing facts & figures, describing graphs & trends. Remedial pronunciation work.
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Skill: Speaking
Meetings and Negotiations. Chairing, participating & contributing. Giving/ asking for opinions. Turn-taking & interrupting. Summarising & concluding.
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Topic Lesson
Input: Vocabulary
Skill: Listening to short DVD presentation. Note-taking, group discussion. Oral and written consolidation of week's vocabulary, function and grammar.
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11:10- 12:00
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Topic Lesson
Input: Vocabulary
Skill:
Reading / Speaking
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Input: Grammar
Remedial work based on presentation & Interrogative forms
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Telephoning:
Making contact, checking & confirming information.
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Grammar review: Conditionals and Modals
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Skill: Speaking / Listening
Video recording of prepared individual Presentations of group members
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12:10- 13:00
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Skill: Speaking
Fluency practice, feedback and remedial work on grammar and pronunciation
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Topic Lesson
Input: Vocabulary
Skill: Reading
Vocabulary, word families.
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Role Play: Telephoning Classroom practice following by authentic phone call practice.
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Simulation:
Inter - Departmental Meeting. Feedback:
Grammar and pronunciation remedial work
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Continuation of above
Group Lunch
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LUNCH
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13:50- 14:40
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Skill: Listening
TV financial programme:
Note-taking
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Learner training: Using a mono-lingual dictionary, vocabulary files, storage and retrieval
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Topic Lesson
Skill: Writing
Business corres - pondence Emails.
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Skill: Speaking / Listening
Conference telephone calls.
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Skill: Speaking
Group viewing of videoed presentations
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14:55-
15:45
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Skill: Speaking
Summarising information, comparing data, agreeing and disagreeing
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Skill: Speaking
Social English in a business context.
Role Play: Entertaining clients
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Financial corres - pondence
Invoices, terms and conditions, debts and
follow-up
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Professional visit to Financial Institution.
Social English practice
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Group discussion on performance.
Error analysis and oral feedback.
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