2024 CTS Summer Course

 Welcome to our 2024 Summer Course!!!

Summer Course 2024

It´s that time of the year again, getting ready for the holidays and planning on what to do to prepare for the coming year, to become better in our profession. We welcome you to our XI Summer Course for Top Teachers of English. We look forward to seeing you all, please contact 989852363

Super Intensive Course for B2 First

Welcome to our new Super Intensive Course for B2 First course. This is a new course focused on tips and strategies in order to reach the B2First level and obtain the Certification. 

Customized Training Services are very well known for our academic rigurosity and the support and customized feedback we provide to our students.

This course has in total thirty two two-hour syncrhonic sessions plus differentiated asynchronic sessions with an exam practice at the end of each session and a mock exam every six. The last module is completely devoted to exam practice and mock exams, all of which will have their own customized feedback.

We´ll accompany and support you all the way so book your seat since we have very few left. 

Look forward to seeing you soon.  

IV Congreso Internacional de Profesores de Inglés

 Happy to be part of it!!!

Growth mindset

If you have a growth mindset (Carol Dweck, 2006), you understand that effort makes you stronger, that if you put in extra time and effort, take on challenges and learn from them, this will lead to higher achievement.

In CTS we have created a programme that encourages students to have a growth mindset. If you are a person that wants to obtain the Cambridge B2 First Certificate this year and want to invest time and effort to achieve it, this is the course for you.

There are a few seats left, we are waiting for you.

 

XXXIII CTS event

 This event was a real blast thanks to all the participants. I feel blessed for having chosen this career. Thank you so much!!

A friendly reminder

 

Improving Listening Skills

Para que una conversación tenga sentido lo único que se necesita es escuchar con atención, lo cual no consiste en callar mientras otro habla sino en apreciar lo que está diciendo”.

(Autor Anónimo)

La habilidad escuchar es un proceso activo en el que el oyente activa sus conocimientos lingüísticos, contextuales y del mundo aunado a una serie de estrategias de comprensión oral para interpretar el mensaje.

 

For meaningful conversations, interlocutors need to listen attentively-this does not mean to remain silent while the interlocutor speaks- but to understand what s/he is saying.

Listening is an active process in which the listener activates his/her linguistic, contextualized knowledge plus knowledge of the world and by using oral comprehension strategies s/he is ready to interpret the message. 

Improving English Language Skills

Customized Training Services has started a series of short summer courses for all those who are interested in improving their language skills. We have developed Listening, Writing and Speaking courses to help participants improve their communication abilities since besides all the Methodology we can learn, it is also important that our language level allows us-teachers-to better communicate with our students on the one hand and to provide a language model on the other. 

Ending the IX Summer Course for Top Teachers of English.

Today is Project submission day for the participants in the IX CTS Summer Course for Top Teachers of English . These two past weeks have been such a delight with so much discussion and exchange of ideas. I am so proud of these teachers who are so concerned about getting ready for the school year investing time and effort in improving their teaching practice. So much to learn, so much to thank them!!

Announcing CTS Academic event

Planning lessons for "the new normal"

As part of the standards of practice for any teacher, being informed, aware and reflecting on the important issues and challenges in the profession as a whole is an essential part of all teacher education and development. In this event, we will exchange ideas of what issues need to be born in mind when planning our lessons in the “new” teaching context.

 

Summary of 2021

 Below there is a summary of the CTS activities  (second part) we had in 2021. It was quite a year!!! Lots of challenges and decisions, lots of love, caring and sharing. It ended with hope for a wonderful 2022. 

Why a Summer Course in CTS?

 

We are really happy to start 2022 with our customary Summer Course aiming at helping our teachers of English community here in Peru. 

Why a Summer Course?

 

CTS´s IX Summer course (online)

 SMART is an acronym that is often used in business as a guide for setting business objectives, but can be applied to language outcomes. The "new normal" in our country is something blurred and although we were the last country in Latin America to resume in-person classes, we are not sure the conditions are the best to support teaching to a group of students who have been affected both emotionally and academically by the pandemic. 

However, I believe we can learn from our mistakes, improve the strategies we learned and used and get ready for whatever situation may come up. This is the rationale behind this summer course where we expect to exchange ideas and enrich our repertoire with what our colleagues have to share. 

XXIX CTS Academic Event

Paradigms, mindsets and tools have changed now that most of us are teaching online. The "new normal" is being planned as hybrid teaching (online and in person) and that brings about its own challenges. We´ll discuss some of these and we´ll all try to work out solutions to overcome them in the two workshops of this session.

XXVIII CTS Academic Event

 This is the topic of our XXVIII CTS Academic event, a moment to enjoy and share knowledge and experience. 

I am looking forward to that. 

Getting REady for FCE

Cambridge has changed the name of the B2 Upper Intermediate level Certificate they issue after sitting for the exam. It used to be called FCE (First Certificate in English), Cambridge English First and now B2 First; however, it has been FCE for so long that the name stuck.

What is important is what you can do once you reach this level of proficiency in English and it is a lot, read, write, listen and understand, speak, you can go around in any English speaking environment with confidence. This is why we, in Customized Training Services, the training company I work for, were asked to design a course to help teachers prepare for this examination. 

Since due to Covid 19, there are no openings for this exam in Peru, we thought of preparing modules of the different papers while waiting for exam dates. This is the first and it is on one of the hardest papers: Use of English. But we also wanted to support our teachers who already have the Certificate or are not interested in it but do want to improve their communicative abilities and so we are covering certain aspects that not only help with this exam paper but also support their communicative skills. 

Inspiring quote

 This quote inspired me to study hard to become a true teacher and a real support for my students. 

B2 level of proficiency

 In this competitive world, we need to demonstrate qualities that make us better than other candidates whether we want to live, study or work in an English speaking environment or improve our academic skills. Knowing a foreign language, particularly English is, besides being computer literate, a very important asset.

To demonstrate the ability to understand the main ideas of complex texts, to interact fluently with native speakers and produce clear texts on a wide range of subjects we need to get at least a B2 level of proficiency.

In this chart we can see how useful it is to achieve this Independent level =Upper Intermediate (B2First) for the above reasons and also if you are interested in pursuing a good IELTS score.