Bildungsurlaub General & Business English Programmes

Course Description

Bildungsurlaub allows employees in Germany to apply for up to an extra 5 days of educational leave so that they can undergo specialist, professional and advanced training. Our Bildungsurlaub adult students love that they can really improve their English, live with our local hosts and enjoy the the green lush countryside, the Atlantic ocean and the hospitality of the friendly local people, in one of Ireland's most breathtakingly beautiful locations.

English Language courses are an ideal way for employees to improve their communication skills in English and we are happy to offer two programmes of 30 hours each for those who want to improve their General or Business English skills.

30 Hour Gen­er­al Eng­lish Lan­guage Skills Pro­gramme for Bil­dung­surlaub (mini-group 4 – 6)

30 Hour Busi­ness Eng­lish Skills Pro­gramme for Bil­dung­surlaub (micro-group 2 – 4)

Our approved Bil­dung­surlaub States

Rheinland Pfalz

General English Language Skills Programme / 10 days

General English Language Skills Programme / 5 days

Niedersachsen

General English Language skill 30x60 Min. / 10 days

General English Language skill 30x60 Min. / 5 days

Berlin

General English Language Skill Programme A2/B1 / 10 days

General English Language Skill Programme A2/B1 / 5 days

Hamburg

General English Language Skill Programme A2/B1 / 10 days

General English Language Skill Programme A2/B1 / 5 days

Below is the day to day ​‘TIMETABLE’ For the Gen­er­al Eng­lish Course

Lessons are Monday to Friday 9.00 to 16.30 lesson times as per the timetable below

Each time period follows the relevant focus on English language skills, grammatical areas & topics for each level's needs

Period 1 9.00-10.00
Period 2 10.00-11.00
Break
Period 3 11.30-12.30
Period 4 12.30-1.30
Period 5 14.30- 16.30 (This period is dedicated to Political and Cultural topics)

Our Busi­ness Eng­lish Top­ics & Lan­guage focus areas

All skills - reading,writing, listening, speaking and pronunciation are covered but with a Business English theme and covering the relevant topics below:

Company Structure

• Job titles
• Departments
• Present Simple
• Describing your job.
• Describing your company.
• Drawing an organigram.
• Meetings
• Conditionals
• Modals
• Vocabulary for organising meetings (minutes, secretary, chair, etc)
• Phrases for meetings
• Stating aims
• Agreeing / Disagreeing
• Giving opinions
• Interrupting / Dealing with interruptions
• Asking for clarification
• … etc

Telephoning

• Phrases for telephoning
• Prononciation: Spelling names, addresses, etc
• Politeness
• Modals (Could I, Would you like to, etc)
• Profit and loss accountants
• Requests
• Offers
• Complaining
• Dealing with complaints
• Making arrangements

Financial English

• Talking about cash flow
• Terminology of finance
• Requests
• Offers
• Complaining
• Dealing with complaints
• Making arrangements

Socialising

• Phrases for greetings, introductions, partings
• Lexis for hobbies, interests, family
• Levels of formality
• Present simple
• Question forms Introducing yourself, Introducing Others, Greetings, Saying Goodbye, Talking about hobbies, interests, families

Employment/Job Applications

• Lexis of working conditions-perks, benefits, holidays, salary, income, K, promotions, etc.
• Comparatives
• Lexis describing character - hard-working, a team player, a self-starter, etc.
• Writing CVs and letters of application
• Being interviewed and interviewing
• Discussing advantages and disadvantages of candidates

E-business/ the Internet

• Internet vocabulary
• IT vocabulary
• Writing emails

Management

• Question forms
• Imperatives
• Levels of formality in requests/orders
• Talking about Total Quality Management
• Talking about different management structures, philosophies
• Role play - getting people to do things more or less politely

Business ethics

• Modals
• Lexis of corruption, rights, etc.
• Talking about maternity rights, business and the environment
• Marketing/Advertising
• Marketing Lexis - brands, awareness campaign, etc
• Talking about adverts they know - what is effective
• Discussing marketing strategies - e.g. for famous brands
• Task - design a campaign
• Corporate Culture/Cross-cultural relations
• Comparatives
• Lexis to describe personality traits
• Polite language • Describing the culture of a business/a national culture/regional culture
• Talking about experiences of culture clash/misunderstanding
• Talking about your ideal company culture
• Practising polite language - greetings etc.

Negotiations

• Conditionals
• Request, Offers
• Typical phrases; starting, making offers, refusing, accepting, asking for clarification, bargaining
• Typical functions of negotiation: Requests, Offers, Refusal, Acceptance etc.

Describing Company History

• Past tenses, Present Perfect
• Key Lexis - (was) launched, was established
• Talking about the history of your company/another company
• Presentations
• Language of presentations, OHP, slides, etc.: signaling language: dealing with questions
• question forms
• giving a presentation
• handling questions
• asking questions

Business Writing

• Language of formal and informal letters
• Language for CVs (experience, qualifications, etc)
• Language for reports (if requested)
• Writing letters, emails and faxes
• Writing CVs, letters of application
• Writing letters of complaint, enquiry, etc
• Writing short reports