Areas of focus in English for Secretaries in New York City include telephone communication, meeting and event organising, note taking, email, fax and letter writing, customer relations and topic areas essential for the day-to-day inter-company communication where English is the common language.
English for Secretaries 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 Secretaries in private classes (you can choose 1 one-to-one lesson a day in addition to the group Platininum classes). English for Secretaries is also available as a closed mini-group course for 3 to 5 students arriving together.
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Lesson
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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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
Skill: Speaking
Welcoming & Entertaining
Clients. Hosting visits.
Identifying client needs.
Formal language. Style and register.
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Telephone Language &
Skills. Speaking / Listening
Filtering incoming calls
Transferring calls
Diverting / Blocking unwanted calls
Apologising, making excuses, taking messages
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Skill: Speaking
Dealing with difficult clients
Giving/ asking for opinions.
Turn-taking & interrupting.
Summarising & concluding.
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Topic Lesson
Input: Vocabulary
Speaking / Listening / Writing
Multi Tasking:
Conference Organising.
Making travel arrangements
Dealing with Participants
Organising technical support
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11:10- 12:00
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Topic Lesson
Input: Vocabulary
Skill:
Reading / Speaking
Managing Several Bosses
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Input: Grammar
Interrogative forms
Reported speech
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Videoed Simulation: Difficult phone calls
Authentic phone call practice.
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Grammar review:
1st & 2nd Conditionals
Modal verbs
Making recommen - dations
Discussing cause and effect
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Dealing with a crisis
Enlisting colleague assistance.
(Videoed Simulation)
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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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Role-play.
Handling the visiting client.
Reporting back.
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Performance, error analysis and group feedback.
Remedial Pronunciation
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Skill: Writing
Business correspondence
Writing emails, from draft to corrected.
Responding to replies
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Oral and written consolidation of week's vocabulary, function and grammar. Group Lunch
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LUNCH
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13:50- 14:40
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Skill: Listening & Speaking.
Diary Making arrangements
Telephone messages
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Skill: Listening & Writing
Minutes of the meeting.
From note to text
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Input: Vocabulary
Skill: Speaking
Cross-cultural awareness
Taboos and good practice
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Skill: Speaking & Listening
Corporate Entertaining
Welcoming, Small talk, Introductions, Looking after guests. Saying goodbye
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Group viewing and discussion on performance.
Error analysis and oral feedback.
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14:55- 15:45
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Skill: Speaking
Cancelling, rescheduling and confirming
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Writing reports
Editing: Rough draft, proofreading, corrections
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Learner training: Using a mono-lingual dictionary, vocabulary files, storage and retrieval
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Videoed Role play of above
Error analysis and feedback
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Platinum Farewell Party:
Authentic Social English Practice
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