Speaking English with a Perfect Accent
Who Would Benefit from this course
Do people find it difficult to understand you when you speak English? Is your accent unclear to people? This course is designed to teach you to speak English with a perfect British accent. The focus is on speaking correctly, with a clear understandable (British) accent. This course is ideal for people who speak English as their second language, and who want to raise their speaking level. As a pre-requisite, your English understanding must be at an intermediate level.
Course Objectives
- The course is highly focussed on speaking.
- The main focus is to help participants to learn to speak with a perfect British accent.
- Learn essential elements of speaking English clearly.
- Learn important keys to the structure of spoken English.
- Discover a new way of listening, with greater attention to detail than you ever realised was possible.
- Learn how each English vowel and consonant is spoken.
- Learn how each of these is pronounced in words.
- Use these sounds in good sample sentences.
- There is a strong focus on personal practice and homework, to strengthen your new speaking skills.
Benefit for You
You will gain a clear understanding of how to speak clearly, and do much practical homework, to actually attain this skill during the duration of this English speaking course. Speaking English clearly with an excellent accent, can open up amazing opportunities in work and society for you.
Benefit for Your Company
Your employee will learn to speak English with a clear and understandable accent. This is a tremendous asset in all aspects of their work life, especially where the employee is directly involved in customer care, and dealing with the public.
Course Duration
1 month Level 2 course.
Programme Content
- The course consists of printed material, together with MP3 Audio tracks that will help participants in producing the sounds and words they are practicing.
- Each Participant will be issued with an MP3 player, with the audio teaching tracks already loaded onto it. The player is vital to the course, and so is included as part of the course fee. You will keep the MP3 player after completing the course, to enable you to continue to practice and improve.
- Essential principles of speaking English.
- How to listen in a new way, to discern the exact pronunciation of each sound in English.
- How to clearly and accurately pronounce each vowel and consonant in English.
- Each sound is practiced in example words, and then in example sentences.
- Complementary exercises will be given, to aid and enhance the learning cycle.
- Homework is a very important part of the course. Every participant must be prepared to spend 1 to 2 hours a day in practicing the oral exercises, as demonstrated on the MP3 audio tracks. This work is actually the essential ingredient of the course. You MUST practice to develop your new accent.
- Participants are immersed in a pure English environment, to help them learn their new accent as quickly as possible.