Content

SPEAKING

• delivery, vocabulary, manner

• small talk

• inane café chit-chat

• polite conversation

• technical conversation

• business conversation

• boring vs interesting

• loquacious, garrulous

• when to stop talking

• speed, volume, persona, pose, affectation

• agreeable, disagreeable and insufferable modulations and inflexions

• functional, dysfunctional and asphyxiated peroration

• the rules of effective English dialogue and monologue

• the ideal English voice.

 VIEWING, LISTENING

• partial understanding

• full understanding

• deep understanding

• pretending to understand

• all kinds of situations and media

• euphonic and dysphonic English voices: 1950s BBC English; the archive.org and other archives of spoken English

WRITING

• presentation

• layout

• numbered paragraphs

• precision

• style

• social media

• marketing literature

• business correspondence

• contracts

• marketing literature

• publicity

• sales documents

• corporate reports and accounts.

'Perfect English' certificate available for documents etc.

READING

• English and or American newspapers, newsletters, magazines, articles, websites, social media

• old and modern English and or American prose, poetry

• famous English and or American authors of your choice. We can pick a book, or play, and read our way through it. I can point out and explain what you might otherwise miss.

WRITTEN ENGLISH +

• practising

• correcting

• reviewing

• revising

• drafting

• polishing

• finalising

SPOKEN ENGLISH +

• practising, with special attention to:-

  • accent by social class, region

  • nuances

  • dialects

  • pronunciation

  • enunciation

  • cultural and local subtleties

  • authentic vs pretentious

  • interviews, meetings, public speaking, radio and television.

SOCIAL ENGLISH

• superficial

• romantic

• casual

• serious

• political

• technical.

BUSINESS ENGLISH

• interviews

• meetings

• presentations

• correspondence

• marketing

• sales literature

• publicity, promotion

• drafting

• terms of business

• bills and billing narratives.