Improve your fluency, confidence and work-related vocabulary in a specific area.
Language workshops are half-day or full-day intensive courses designed to help you immediately in the area you need the most.
Some popular courses include:
- English for business trips and travel.
- Meeting and entertaining business people from abroad.
- English for healthcare specialists.
- Mobile device circularity and lowering your company carbon footprint.
- Written English for the office.
- Socialising and small talk.
Sample programme content:
Socialising and Small Talk (One or Two-Day Course)
This is a one, or two-day language-based course for business people wishing to develop their fluency and confidence for social business situations. The main input to the programme is language for everyday work situations, hosting a visit and socialising. The course content is very flexible and will be altered and tailored to suit the exact needs and level of each particular group.
Choose from…
- Introducing yourself and meeting people
- Small talk, strategies for the first five minutes
- Small talk – Game and role play
- Introducing your company, mini presentations
- Asking for and giving information: language review
- Making offers and invitations: language review
- Entertaining guests in Finland: some dos and don’ts
- Agreeing and disagreeing; levels of formality
- Asking for and giving opinions
- Techniques for explaining and topics for discussion
- Complaining and apologising politely: language review
- Wining and dining
- Food and restaurant vocabulary
- A typical Finnish menu, the company canteen
- Factory tours
- Describing processes
- Using the passive
- Language review: error correction and typical Finnish mistakes
- Easily confused words and typical pronunciation errors
- Ending the day
- Expressing thanks, inviting, saying goodbye
- Phrases, hints, and practice
- Course review and feedback
Contact David Houghton for prices, sample Programme of Study and availability.