Comprehensive
World Wide English offers several comprehensive teacher training courses to suit individual needs.
1. Teacher Training Comprehensive Intensive
Delivered over 4-weeks, this 140-hour course gives pre- and in-service English teachers invaluable skills and techniques for classroom. Theoretical input is balanced with evaluation of teaching approaches and materials, teaching practice and reflection.
Programme of study
- Approaches and methodologies
- Warmers and fillers
- Lesson planning
- Teaching large multilevel classes
- Skills and techniques in the classroom (e.g. patterns of interaction, questioning, instruction-giving, eliciting, error correction)
- Teaching grammar
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching reading
- Teaching listening
- Teaching speaking
- Teaching pronunciation
- Teaching writing
- Assessing learners
- Teaching young learners
- Teaching adolescents
- Teaching adults
- Evaluating coursebooks and adapting materials
- Micro-teaching, group teaching and individual teaching practise sessions
2. Teacher Training Comprehensive Extensive
The same programme of study as the comprehensive intensive but taught over 20 weeks (one day a week).
3. Teacher Training Comprehensive Intensive + TKT
The comprehensive intensive programme of study plus the TKT preparatory course.
4. Teacher Training Comprehensive Extensive + TKT
The comprehensive extensive programme of study plus the TKT preparatory course.
Teacher Training Workshops
Our one-day workshops allow you to select the teaching focus of your choice. Choose one or mix and match from the following to create a bundle:
1. Lesson planning
Learn about effective lesson planning including how to identify aims, link learning activities to those aims, work out procedures, interaction patterns, timing and more.
2. Skills and techniques in the classroom
Find out about the best techniques and ideas for classroom language learning such as effective questioning, patterns of interaction, instruction-giving, elicitation techniques and error correction.
3. Teaching large multilevel classes
Learn how to successfully meet the challenges of the large multilevel class and get to know and practice lots of ideas and activities that will energise your classroom and increase student motivation, interest and participation.
4. Teaching grammar
Find out how to teach grammar for optimum learning by exploring a wide range of grammar teaching approaches, activities, tasks and options for the classroom.
5. Teaching vocabulary
Learn how to teach vocabulary by analysing how it is best learned and applying these strategies through the most appropriate tasks and activities.
6. Teaching reading
Find out how to teach reading by examining the strategies required to read effectively and the different types of reading comprehension tasks and activities that best develop reading skills.
7. Teaching listening
Learn how to teach listening comprehension through tasks and activities based on both real-life listening situations and set classroom material.
8. Teaching speaking
Build fluency in the classroom by looking into the types of material, tasks and activities that encourage participation as well as how to gradually develop more complex interaction between learners.
9. Teaching pronunciation
Find out how to teach pronunciation including how to use the phonemic chart in classroom activities and how to teach suprasegemental features such as intonation, connected speech and stress.
10. Teaching writing
Learn how to teach writing including understanding the writing process, the best ways of helping learners generate ideas, encourage the use revision strategies and how to quickly and efficiently grade texts.
11. Assessing learners
Find out how to assess learners by analysing the different types of tests commonly used and then focus on how to successfully assess each language skill.
12. Teaching young learners
Learn about teaching young learners including understanding how they learn, how to create a positive classroom atmosphere and how to choose activities that best support language learning in children.
13. Teaching adolescents
Find out how to best teach adolescents including how to choose tasks and activities that link language teaching to what most interests teenagers thereby motivating them to engage and participate for maximum learning.
14. Teaching adults
Learn how to teach adults by analysing the type of learners they are and the factors that motivate them to learn a language along with the most appropriate tasks and activities to achieve their goals.
TKT Preparatory Course
The World Wide English TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) preparatory course is the ideal pre-test course covering everything a candidate needs to know in order to do well in the test. It analyses current theories and approaches in English language teaching and looks at the main concepts and terms we use. It also raises awareness of the most effective materials, activities and resources for the classroom. The course includes four practice tests and covers all three modules of the TKT:
1. Language and background to language learning and teaching
- i) Describing language and language skills
- ii) Background to language learning
- iii) Background to language teaching
2. Lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching
- i) Planning or preparing a lesson or sequence of lessons
- ii) Selection and use of resources and materials
3. Managing the teaching and learning process
- i) Teachers’ and learners’ language in the classroom
- ii) Classroom management
Cambridge International Certificate in Financial English Preparatory Course
World Wide English offers a preparatory course for those wishing to sit the Cambridge International Certificate in Financial English exam.
The course is delivered as a blended solution and has been created for individuals whose first language is not English and who need to use financial English in order to perform effectively in business situations.
This flexible 100-hour course is designed to deliver 75 hours online learning with 25 hours face-to-face teaching. Although this is the typical format, other combinations can be tailored to the needs of your organisation.
The classroom learning experience
Face-to-face sessions focus on consolidating the learning from the online element of the course and enhancing the skills of students using role-playing activities based on scenarios from the online units.
The virtual learning experience
The online element of this blended course includes both presentation and self-study practice material, organised into 20 topic-based modules. Each module contains a mix of language work, specialist vocabulary, and a focus on the skills finance professionals need in order to communicate and work effectively in English. Authentic situations and issues from the financial and business world are presented through realistic video, audio and reading materials.
Course Content
Cambridge Financial English develops ability across the four skill areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking and consists of 20 topic-based modules:
- Jobs in finance
- Basic financial accounting
- Company results
- Cash flow
- Teamwork and managing people
- Accounting software and IT
- Company formation and company law
- Internal audits and control
- Taxation
- Client relations
- IFRS and accounting standards
- Audit and assurance
- Banking and insurance
- Financial markets
- Risk assessment and analysis
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Budgeting
- Debt and corporate distress
- Ethics and corporate governance
- Strategic financial management
About the Cambridge International Certificate in Financial English
To help finance professionals demonstrate that they have the financial English skills they need, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (English for Speakers of Other Languages) have developed the International Certificate in Financial English (Cambridge ICFE).
Cambridge ICFE is a high-level, internationally recognised qualification for aspiring and established finance professionals. For aspiring professionals, Cambridge ICFE can enhance their CV. For professionals with established careers, it can be used to certificate existing language skills and provide proof of ability to work in an international context. For employers, it gives confidence in employees’ abilities to conduct business internationally or with international clients and colleagues.
The exam is set at levels B2 and C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR) and assesses language skills in the context of finance and accounting. B2 is equivalent to the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE), and C1 is equivalent to the Certificate in Advanced English (CAE).