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Business English Courses

Whatever your objective might be, ICC will plan and deliver a business language course designed around your level and needs. Although the key focus will be to develop your communicative fluency, accuracy, and confidence within a business context reflecting your specific working environment, language work will be strengthened by a systematic approach to grammar, vocabulary development, and skills work. The courses, conducted by highly-experienced and enthusiastic native instructors, focus on all kinds of business situations, including meetings, presentations, negotiating and social contacts. Our programs will not only enable you to communicate effectively in the target language, they will also give you the tools to address the specific cultural issues arising from working or studying in a different culture.

Our Private Lessons system offers you total flexibility and guarantees you make the maximum progress in the time that you have. Semi-Private lessons are also available for students who wish to study with family members, work colleagues or friends. You can start a course at any time, and schedule your lessons how and when you like. Lessons are available from 7:00am to 10:00pm, 7 days a week, all year long. Instruction can take place in our school rooms, in your office, or in your home.

Since its founding in 1986, ICC has also been offering excellent corporate language programs to major corporations and governmental institutions. Our impressive clients’ list includes the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry Of Defence, the Police Department, the Pentagon, Sony, Panasonic, Shiseido, Shell, Siemens and Chanel, to name just a few. Upon request, a trial lesson can be arranged at your convenience.



Corporate Programs List of our major clients

Learning Objectives for Basic to Intermediate Courses

The courses goal is to help students use, expand, improve all their language skills (Grammar, speaking, reading and listening). In addition to improving their conversational skills, equal focus must be given to listening and reading of mid-level and eventually high-level news articles and broadcasts, depending on the students’ progress.

These courses will help students to...

  • Understand and use a wide range of language structures and functions.
  • Understand the main points of standard speech on familiar matters you might encounter in your daily life.
  • Understand non-standard variations of the language even if it is spoken at a fast speed.
  • Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple exchange of information on familiar topics.
  • Communicate your hopes and desires.
  • Express ideas and handle yourself in a wide variety of situations, both familiar and unfamiliar.
  • Deal effectively with the kind of language that arises in working and personal situations..
  • Deal with situations likely to arise while working, studying or traveling in the country where the language is spoken.
  • Produce sentences to describe your family, living conditions, educational and professional backgrounds.
  • Read short texts related to business matters and everyday events.
  • Write simple notes and messages related to your work and other matters in areas of immediate needs.


Course Outline and Content

Course Outline

  • Listening to a wide variety of materials in the target language and discussing the content to check for meaning.
  • Improving proficiency in reading and speaking skills. Reading and speaking practice will re-enforce listening skills.
  • Increasing knowledge of vocabulary.
  • Improving understanding of different voices and accents.

Course Content

1. Communicative content

  • Talking about yourself, your family, people, work and common activities
  • Talking about health, illness and emergencies
  • Talking about leisure time and social activities
  • Talking about time, dates and timetables
  • Describing people’s physical appearance and character
  • Discussing current affairs
  • Discussing ethics and values
  • Expressing feelings, emotions and hopes
  • Asking and giving directions
  • Mastering common phrases and vocabulary related to eating and drinking
  • Expressing opinions and criticising with tact
  • Negotiating
  • Expressing disagreement and dissent

    • 2. Pronunciation and intonation

  • Key sounds and phonemes
  • Word and sentence stress
  • Intonation
  • Blending words
  • Common phrasal expressions
  • Dealing with common pronunciation problems

3. Grammar content

  • Present, past and future tenses
  • Modal verbs structures
  • Imperatives
  • The affirmative, negative and interrogative forms
  • Word order and word classes
  • Articles and determiners
  • Adjectives, adverbs and prepositions
  • Linking words
  • Word families
  • Common idioms and common collocations
  • Compounds and narratives

4. Cultural content

  • Greetings and introductions
  • History, traditions and customs
  • Business culture
  • Social and Family Life
  • Common directional signs
  • Multiculturalism and intercultural communication
  • Religion and belief
  • Education
  • Regional differences
  • Gestures


Approach and Methology

Lessons will generally follow an integrated skills approach. Classes will focus on functional and notional areas, and then work on the language skills required to achieve competence in those areas. These will typically consist of a mix of structural, lexical and cultural items, including work on question forms, politeness phrases, appropriate intonation, and phrases to attract attention. The instructors will always follow an active learning approach, engaging their students in the target language. The content of the lessons has to be relevant to life outside the classroom, and to students’ specific needs. Language needs to be used in authentic and useful ways.


Instructors

Our courses are conducted by well-experienced and enthusiastic native　instructors. We sincerely believe that the success of our schools ultimately depends on the quality and efforts of our staff and instructors. It is with this idea in mind that we hire only high-quality native instructors that are well-experienced, friendly and dedicated to their work. Most of our instructors have studied, worked, and taught abroad, and are therefore able to respond to any individual student’s or any organization’s particular needs, using a proven teaching method and excellent taching materials. Depending on your level and objective, typical classroom activities might include role-plays, discussions, and other enjoyable language practice.

Our instructors are trained to:

  • Use the target language whenever possible when teaching.
  • Ask students to create realistic and meaningful language.
  • Put new language and ideas into practice as soon as possible.
  • Use techniques to structure you into using the target language.
  • Incorporate lots of listening practice in the target language.
  • Systematically teach the grammatical structures, vocabulary, and functional language, necessary to achieve students’ learning aims.
  • Work on pronunciation techniques, intonation and stress patterns to ensure students can be understood by others.
  • Make sure that all learning is relevant to the stated objectives.
  • Keep challenge and interest levels high at all times.
  • Systematically review and recycle new language to ensure it remains active.

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Types of Lessons

Private Lessons　（One-to-one instruction）

Our One-to-One system, designed around your schedule and learning preferences, offers you total flexibility and guarantees you make the maximum progress in the time that you have. Each class is specifically crafted following thorough needs analysis and level testing with each student. Instruction plans and teaching materials are researched and tailor-made for each individual.

Semi-Private Lessons　（Two to five students in a class）

Semi-Private Lessons are available for corporate clients and for students who wish to study with family members, work colleagues or friends. Each class is delivered on a cost-effective basis. Each student follows a rigorous needs analysis and level testing process to ensure the language instruction plan will work for everyone. The emphasis will typically be on developing communicative skills in the target language. However, instruction can be adapted to different professional or private needs.

Group Lessons (Classes of more than five students)

As for Semi-Private Lessons, Group Lessons are available for corporate clients and for students who wish to study with family members, work colleagues or friends. Each class is delivered on a cost-effective basis. Each student follows a rigorous needs analysis and level testing process to ensure the language instruction plan will work for everyone. The emphasis will typically be on developing communicative skills in the target language. However, instruction can be adapted to different professional or private needs.

On-site Lessons

ICC can dispatch well-experienced and enthusiastic native instructors to your office or home so you do not have to stress about travelling to one of our schools. See more...

 


Course Procedure

1. The Initial Conversation

In our first conversation, we will ask you about your aims and expectations in order to find out as much as possible about key issues, such as why you want you learn, how you want to learn, what you hope to achieve, how much language you already have, how much time you'd like to commit, and other important issues.

2. The Proposal

After discussing the details, we will create a proposal which will reflect our understanding of your needs. The proposal will include course format, course content, course duration and price. The proposal is a framework which you are able to refine to meet your schedule and specific learning circumstances.

3. The Trial Lesson and Level Test

Once the proposal is agreed upon, we will contact you to discuss training location, times, durations and other important details. Suitable instructors will then be selected and fully briefed prior to the first lesson. Upon request, a trial lesson and a level test can be arranged at your convenience, before the start of the course.

4. At the Beginning of the Course

In the trial lesson or in the first lesson, your instructor will get a clearer idea of your linguistic strengths and weaknesses, your learning style and what your priorities are. Together, we will draw up a course plan which will focus on what you want to be able to do with the target language and what you will need to cover during the course in order to achieve your goal.

5. During the Course

During the course, your instructors will assess your strengths, your weaknesses and your learning style on a regular basis, and adapt the teaching method and materials accordingly in order to maximize your language acquisition. You will also have the full support of our dedicated staff throughout your course, and we will collect regular feedback from you, responding where necessary.

6. At the End of the Course

The end of the course will include a full review of what you have learnt, a final assessment test to find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and some suggestions on what you can do to maintain and improve all the acquired language skills.


How long will it take me to learn a foreign language?

That will depend on a number of factors, including the relative difficulty of the language you wish to learn, whether you’ve studied the language (or a similar language) before, your level of motivation in learning, and the amount of time you are willing or able to spend practicing between classes. Please call us, and one of our advisors will be happy to discuss your situation and make recommendations.


Testimonials

Please read what our students and clients say about us:

“ICC was very accommodating and responded to my specific language needs. Unlike other language schools, ICC had a less ridged approach to language instruction and allowed the student to articulate specific language objectives and modify them as appropriate. This, in conjunction with lesson plans that adapted to specific student strengths and weaknesses, enabled me to advance my speaking and listening abilities far beyond expectations. ICC is particularly appropriate for students who are enthusiastic about language learning and are willing to take a proactive role in their language studies.”

Geoff Goodman, US Department of Defense

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Languages Taught at ICC

The following is a list of the languages taught at ICC:

Arabic Bengali Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Cantonese Cebuano
Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Filipino Finnish
French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian
Italian Japanese Khmer Korean Laotian Malay Mongolian
Nepalese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Rumanian Russian
Sinhala Slovac Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog
Thai Tibetan Turkish Urdu Vietnamese Wolof Other lang.

If you wish to learn a language not listed above, please let us know and we are confident we can help.

Free trial Lessons Available

Trial lessons can be arranged at your convenience, in our school rooms or on your organization’s premises. Trial lessons for major language (Japanese, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Korean) are free of charge. However, there is a trial lesson charge of ￥5, 000 for all other languages. Upon enrolment, this amount will be deducted from your school fees.

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Translation and Interpretation Services

For more than 25 years since its foundation in 1986, ICC has been providing high-quality Arabic translation and interpretation services to a wide range of corporate clients, as well as to private individuals. With more than 500 registered professional linguists, ICC can solve communication challenges in more than 50 languages and dialects, including Arabic, in a wide range of subjects and situations, quickly and accurately. Our commitment to quality and excellent service, at reasonable rates, is the reason for the very high satisfaction level of our clients. Volume discounts for translation work is available.

Please call us or e-mail us with your specific needs, and we will be happy to provide you with a fast and free estimate. To receive the most accurate estimate, please e-mail, fax, or mail us copies of the documents to be translated. If the volume of the documents is large, please send us between five to ten representative pages. Be assured that all translation and interpretation work is kept strictly confidential. See more...

Study Abroad and Homestay Programs

In conjunction with various educational organizations throughout the world, ICC's study abroad center can arrange wonderful study-abroad programs at well nown language schools, high schools and universities in countries such as England, the U.S.A, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, China as well as others.
Furthermore,in conjunction with EF Language Schools(a world leader in the in the field of language education having many schools throghout the world we can provide excellent short term and long term language study programs. From its founding in 1965 up to the present,EF Language Schools has supported over four million people realize their study goals and their experience living abroad. Please feel free to have a consultation,free of charge,at any time,at our study-abroad center. If you would like to see more detailed information about EF Language Schools,(a video of the classrooms, photo collection etc.), See more...