About the Class
HEADLINE ENGLISH gives you the opportunity to practise your English-speaking skills through stimulating, award-winning content based on news articles from the world''s press. To really feel confident speaking English, it should become a part of your everyday life, so for the price of a cup of coffee, students are invited to attend one discussion session (or more) every day.
Headline English seeks to mirror the topics you naturally talk about with your friends and family; with regular practice you will be able to speak about any topic, just as you do in your own language. The course also provides practice for both TOEFL and IELTS, with topics divided into eight categories that reflect both exams.
Headline English is not only discussion. It is also grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, intuition, role-play, and more. Topics range from Barack Obama to Winnie the Pooh, aromatherapy, Cuban homes, Michael Jackson and hundreds more, so you can be sure your motivation to learn English will be kept in tip-top condition. Headline English is currently being used in sixteen companies around the world. Now available for private individuals, we hope you will join in the fun!
Aims
* To become a fluent English speaker using interesting content-driven conversation lessons.
* To provide speaking, listening and reading practice for TOEFL and IELTS.
* To learn grammar, boost vocab, develop intuition, and increase your confidence, range and comprehension of English.
Prerequisites: A desire to learn English. A headset.
Target audience: Anyone interested in improving their English skills. TOEFL and IELTS candidates.
Why attend?
1. Increase range: learn to speak beyond your ''comfort zone''. Headline English develops range while also focusing on vocabulary.
2. Learn real English: newspaper articles are full of collocates. A collocate is a term used to describe words that often go together (e.g. airport lounge, not ''airport room''). When learning to speak a language, it is important to learn collocates. Headline English makes you use collocates in a variety of contexts.
3. Develop confidence: in the discussion section, participants are put under pressure to express a point of view. Speaking under pressure leads to mistakes, which can then be corrected.
4. Stimulate your subconscious: a key concept of Headline English is that of acquiring language indirectly through text, pictures, listening etc. in order to make language learning effortless and fun.
5. Boost vocabulary: vocabulary learning and memory recall are most effective when associations are made. The brainstorm section of the Headline English course aims to boost associative learning and recall.
6. Learn faster: before reading the article, participants predict its contents. This raises curiosity, resulting in a higher level of concentration during reading, and therefore more effective and faster learning.
7. Acquire linguistic flexibility: keywords from the text are given synonyms which participants are required to pair together. The synonyms are slightly ''off-centre'', which forces students to stretch their linguistic flexibility.
8. Develop intuition: when learning a foreign language, there is a need to develop an intuitive sense for what sounds right and what sounds wrong. Headline English has a section specifically aimed at developing linguistic intuition.
9. Improve reading skills: by the time participants come to the reading section of the lesson, they have already done an enormous amount of work on the article. They have studied its vocabulary, discussed its various themes, made associations, given their opinions, and gone beyond the scope of the article to discuss related issues. The result is participants with a keen interest in reading the article, perhaps to find answers to issues raised during the meeting, or maybe to confirm their ideas. With such high motivation to find information, most of what they read will not be forgotten, and the article itself w
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