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Oxfordfirst - Business Contracts
As well as being a university lecturer and teacher of English myself,as a company, OxfordFirst also arranges English tuition at all levels for business clients. This ranges from individual one-to-one lessons with fully qualified and experiened teachers or group teaching (normally arranged in a local college) or indeed a m ixture of the two. No two jobs are the same so if you represent a company that has a need to improve the English language skills of yourself or your employees, please do not hesitiate to contact OxfordFirst to discuss your needs so that we can describe how we can provide provision to satisfy your needs. Our clients leave us having greater fluency in speaking English, are more accurate in their listening, are more accurate in their grammar, have an enlarged vocabulary, and have developed greater general confidence in their language abilities.
If you have some other needs where you wish to consult experts in English language communication - report writing, academic papers, marketing and so on - then that is another service we provide.
I have been involved in teaching, personally, and through my range of qualified teachers, group classes and one-to-one lessons for students from around the world, ranging from close by European countries, Spain, France and Germany as well as from the Far East, particularly Japan and Korea. There is no restriction on age or ability as we pride ourselves on matching our teaching to the needs of our clients. our range of clients has varied from professional interpreters at the European Parliament wishing to enhance the skills and keep up to date on current English language usage to the more general middle manager who needs to do business with speakers from another country (and culture) where their only medium of communication is a second language for both parties - English.
Business/Professional English
Business  English has many meanings and we are happy to offer services for each one. Some people want to practice the skills involved in Business before taking a business course, making arrangements on the phone, reading business reports for information. Some want to use Business as a means of learning English so that all the contexts are in a Business environment. The focus is on learning English but the examples, contexts and vocabulary are deliberately concentrated on those used in Business.
A third aspect of Business English is that used by business professionals and is designed for those already working to improve their communication and English language skills in specific ways. We offer flexibility in this area designing each course to suit the individual learner with topics that are designed to be of immediate application by the learner in their work. Typical areas covered can be effective communications in meetings, being able to conduct negotiations, writing effective reports, proposals and formal business correspondence, delivering presentations, describing company business and effective telephoning and organisation. Other vitally important areas in which we can develop skills are effective interviewing techniques for jobs (including brushing up CVs (résumés), marketing and public relations but of particular use on important occasions is Social English so that company representatives can handle social occasions more confidently including entertaining clients and business associates and for when they travel on business.
Accommodation in Oxford
Our clients normally take homestay accommodation, staying in a host family, where they can practise their English further in a natural environment. We arrange that too. For more infromation about homestay accommmodation you may visit a companion website here.
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