One to one lessons with 2 teachers helped me to improve my speaking and understanding

Making a telephone call from the box on Milford village green!

Maxime came to Heritage English in November for one week of intensive one-to-one training with two teachers.  He stayed with a friendly host Pam who took him to several local events in the evenings.

He needed to raise his oral skills in using the telephone to respond to calls and complaints from users of IT services from within his company, an international corporation dealing in environmental services.

Writing emails was his other priority and during his lessons he studied many expressions to help him to be effective in English at work.

At the end of his training week, he wrote: "Il est tres interessant d'avoir a la fois des cours particuliers avec deux professeurs differents pour avoir deux approches differents ainsi que des sorties (musees, chateaux) pour pouvoir parler.  La famille d'acceuil a ete tres accuillantes et le fait d'avoir des activites avec la famille et d'etre en contact avec differentes persones est aussi tres benefiques"

" I have improved my oral English as well as my comprehension and this will help me in my everyday work when I have to communicate with British native speakers on the telephone

"I felt immediately at ease with my host Pam and my teachers Celia and Toby; I think that is very important in order to make good progress"

"I will use the new expressions in my presentation at a business Convention in November"

Our latest business student came in October for a short intensive one-to-one Monday to Friday course.  He wanted to focus on preparation for a business presentation to be made in November for the Purchasing and Procurement Convention.

Mr Vidal needed to present the purchasing processes and organisation of his company to 150 category managers and purchasing agents.  This was a challenge for a pre-intermediate level student.  He gained confidence in speaking in English and he raised his level from pre-intermediate to a low intermediate level in a short time.

At the end of his training he wrote: "I enjoyed everything about my course with Heritage English; the intensive one-to-one daily lessons, lunch outings/excursions and conversations with my teachers to speak about nature and the beach.

"I achieved my objectives for this week by a lot of communication with my two teachers, Toby and Sara.  I will use the language in my professional communications and at the Convention in November.

"Many thanks!"

Note for students: Mr Vidal stayed at a local hotel in preference to living with one of our host families.  He said afterwards that he would have liked conversation in the evenings with people.  This is the reason that we recommend for students take advantage of the host family opportunity.  The evenings spent with kind, helpful hosts in a warm friendly atmosphere re-enforces language learned during lessons.