🥇 Business English Skills for:
-- Business and tech professions
-- Driving meetings and discussions
-- Leading project communication
-- Conducting presentations
-- Giving status report
-- Understanding and communicating requirements and design
-- Collecting information for decision-making
🥈Classroom English Skills for:
-- Study abroad students
-- Asking questions
-- Participating classroom discussion
-- Supporting argument
-- Agree to disagree
-- Conducting presentations and report
-- Writing papers and essays
🥉Life and travel English Skills for:
-- World travelers
-- People who are going to move to the US for work or to start a family
-- Asking and looking for help
-- Handling cultural difference
-- Getting along with new family members
-- Communicating difference to boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife
-- Standing up for yourself and winning an argument
**What you will get out of this class:**
🧨 Speak ONLY English in the class and learn authentic English expressions
🥳 Build up your comfort and confidence level speaking English
🧨 Enhance your skills to communicate and support your ideas
🥳 Practice how to properly respond to others and show empathy in English
🧨 Develop strategy carrying out a difficult conversation in English (This is a bonus to communicate in your mother tone too!!)
**What we will be doing in the class:**
⌚️ The first 25-minute: We will focus on small talk. You will be practicing talking about:
- Home, work, school
- Hobby, adventure, event, activity
- Anything new in life lately
- Any good in life lately
- Anything bad in life lately
- Anything that makes you happy
- Anything that makes you sad
- Anything that makes you angry
- Anything that makes you frustrated
⌚️ The second 25-minute: We will switch to discuss articles/shows you read or watch on your own.
- Reading/watching TV shows is the best way of self-learning.
- The article/show will be about a topic of your interest.
- You CAN, but you DON'T need to read/watch the whole article/show all at once.
- We will focus on the part you read/watch in class and keep working on the rest.
- You will practice making a summary of what you read/watch.
- You will practice talking about the topic using your own words.
- You will practice clarifying your thoughts to help other people understand your ideas.
- You will practice expressing opinions to show agree or disagree.
- You will practice supporting your ideas with examples.
- You will practice asking questions to elicit other people's ideas.
- You will practice properly respond to other people's ideas.
- You will learn new vocabulary from the article we read or the show we watch.
- You will learn sentence structure and grammar, too, when it's applicable.
**Material we use in the class:**
⭐️ We will decide the topic together. It should be topics of your interest.
⭐️ It can be business, academia, lifestyle, technology, science, and so on.
⭐️ I will pick the material from publishers that are popular in the US
⭐️ We can read material from your work or school as well
**What are the sample topics**
⭐️ Life in the US vs. in your country
⭐️ Tips for communicating with your English-speaking significant the other half
⭐️ How to handle the relationship with your American family to be
⭐️ The work environment in the US vs. in your country
⭐️ Social issues and studies
⭐️ Your major or school work
⭐️ Software project management: Agile, scrum, and so on
⭐️ Software development life cycle: Waterfall, CI/CD, and so on
**Homework**
✏️ Weekly reading or TV series assignment - it's a do-your-best style.
✏️ The material is to facilitate the discussion, not to judge your effort.
✏️ We all have a life and work to take care of. Let's do our best here.
✏️ We may identify writing assignments based on the progress and topic of the class - if you are up for it.
**About Nars**
**About Nars**
🦞 Taught both English and Chinese to people from all over the world over the years.
🦞 We can make progress and have fun.
🦞 I promise you will feel great speaking English the way you never think you can.
🦞 I have lived in Boston since 2011.
🦞 I didn't think moving to the US, studying, and working here was something possible because I didn't have the resource to do it.
🦞 Even though I didn't have much, I didn't give up either.
🦞 Ten years later now, I live in a city where it snows in the winter and I speak English 24/7 at home and at work.
🦞 Living in the US is NOT the awesome part of this journey - having achieved something that was close to impossible is.
🦞 I am a technical program manager/software project manager. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/narschang/)
🦞 I teach English and Mandarin because I am passionate about teaching and connecting to my students.
🦞 Being able to speak English better opens many doors for me, and I want you to have the same opportunities if this is what you are looking for.
** Class Etiquette**
☑️ English ONLY please. You can read or watch TV shows on your own, but you can't practice speaking English by yourself.
☑️ Let's make your money worth by speaking as mush English as possible.
☑️ If you need to cancel a class, please do your best and cancel the class 12 hours before it’s start time.