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. 

Getting a B2 level

 

Why is it important to get a B2 level and demonstrate it by obtaining the Cambridge English First Certificate?

Because achieving this level allows you to interact fluently with native speakers, explaining your point of view on topical issues,  understand the main ideas of different kinds of complex texts and produce detailed texts on a wide range of subjects. 

Besides, it is a good extra point if you are applying for a job not only in teaching but in any field of specialization. 

This course places special emphasis on issues such as Idioms and Collocations, Phrasal Verbs and Sentence Transformation. 

Use of English Review Courses

In Customized Training Services we believe teachers of English need to be knowledgable in both knowing the language we teach as well as learning how to teach it whether it is face-to-face or online.

The aim of these review courses is to refresh some Use of English issues at different levels addressing each participant´s weaknesses in personalized tutoring sessions. We are sure you will find them useful.

Public policy of English teaching in Peru expects students to end their school training with a B1 level of proficiency and that teachers of English demonstrate a B2 level, at least. How can we make this possible? One way is for teachers to train to obtain the B2:First (formerly known as FCE) Certificate from Cambridge Assessment.

Towards this end, Customized Training Services has designed a blended course to help our colleagues obtain this Certification with the quality, support and care of all the courses we have launched along these years.

We know how to help you improve your teaching career. Contact us at the numbers and mail addresses provided below, we will be very pleased to hear from you.

Pre-FCE Online Course

Official international Certificates are a very useful tool to study abroad or to demonstrate a specific Language level when applying for a job. In the job field some of the most commonly required Certificates are the ones issued by Cambridge Assessment English, particularly B2: First (previously known as FCE).

Over five million people in the world sit for Cambridge exams which measure basic skills when using a language: reading, listening, speaking and writing. First thing to do before becoming familiar with the exam structure is to reach the required level of proficiency in the language. That is why we have designed this Pre-FCE course where we will present and practice some of the most important language structures that are being assessed in the B2: First exam. Therefore, taking this course will allow participants to kill two birds with one stone: improve their Grammar proficiency and advance in their exam preparation. We can help you, contact us.

What is the Pre- FCE course about?

This is an online course that aims at supporting people who have an Intermediate level of English and are interested in refreshing their knowledge and also for those who want to start their Cambridge First exam preparation. The course develops the main grammatical structures an Intermediate student should master as well as the vocabulary based on the topics that Cambridge First exam assesses.

Being a customized course, participants will sit for a diagnostic test at the beginning of the course and will receive weekly material and  online tutoring to help them meet their needs. At the end of the course, an achievement test will be administered to measure progress.

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Cambridge Exams are really important not only for our students but for us teachers of English as well since we cannot teach what we do not know. 

This is why we have chosen the topic of Communication Skills for Cambridge Exams emphasising the Communicative aims of some of the papers and not focusing in just one exam but on the different aims that B1 Preliminary and B2 First in particular have.

CTS Courses  2017-0

At work (Customized Training Services), we believe that we never cease learning and that we cannot give out what we don´t have. Because of this, we try hard to provide other teachers of English courses that are going to help  them improve their language level and get an International Certificate as well.

I am lucky because I have two friends who share this goal: Liliana and Emma. Emma has so much patience and knows exactly what her students need to improve that has become a decisive element in the company.

One of the courses she teaches is Pre-FCE, a very important course since it helps students improve their language level by revising the grammatical structures the FCE (Cambridge English First) exam demands.

She also teaches the FCE Course preparation and Developing Writing Skills, she is a real expert in helping students go from understanding the writing process beginning from sentence connection to writing texts. Everything she does, she does it so well that I cannot think of a better academic partner.

Below we have some of the activities our current FCE students developed when they were in their pre-FCE course in the summer.

And in the Developing Writing course:

Our next event is our XI Facebook event, we expect it to be as useful for our colleagues as the previous ten.

Due to the recent events in our country, the beginning of this course will take place on March 28th. There are still three seats left so if you are interested in joining us please contact us.

Writing is a difficult skill and since it is a process, it needs time to be taught and improved. We are hosting this Writing event again because it has proved to be well-received, successful and very useful for those people training for Cambridge International Exams such as Cambridge English First and Cambridge English Advanced.

AT CTS we just finished our pre-FCE course and I am really proud of the participants. They were punctual, committed and did an excellent job. Many of them will take the Cambridge First preparation course in August.  See you then!!!

In Customized Training Services we are getting ready for meeting the needs of the teachers of English who want to be ready for teaching in the 21st century. We offer a pleasant atmosphere where you can learn comfortably knowing that we will accompany and support your learning process to help you succeed.

Here is our latest agenda but if you form a group of 6 or more people you can ask for special schedules. Hope you find this useful.

TACKLING TYPICAL GRAMMAR PROBLEMS

We  have now finished the third module of this course and the results could not have been more successful.

The purpose of the course is to help learners overcome some fossilized grammatical mistakes and/or raise awareness of some special cases that sometimes occur in even well-known structures.

Some sessions start with an activity based on a Use of English task and others go straight into understanding the structure and use of the Grammatical structure and then developing activities to put this knowledge into practice. The activities are not only sentences in a worksheet but also situations where students need to use what they have revised.

For instance, in the case of Reported Speech, students pretend they are at a party, they are given slips with some statements they need to say while mingling with the other guests while listening to some party music and then they have to report what they heard in the party.

To practise verbs and adjectives followed by prepositions we  use a game where students form groups and a member of the opposite group has to pick up cards with sentences where the preposition is missing. If they provide the right preposition,the score a point and can make their teams win.

Many people think learning Grammar is boring but in CTS we tried to make it useful and enjoyable and since the group was really small, we managed to make it really customized for participants´particular problems.

It feels good to hear from the participants that the course was good and useful and that they wanted more.

See you in the next course!!

Customized training Services

 

 

 

If you are looking for a jump-start to your new year, here are six courses we are featuring this month to help you out.

1. Third Summer Course for Top English Language Teachers 2016

From Jan 18 - Jan 30 Mondays to Fridays from 09:00 - 13:00

This is a modular course and as in the two preceding courses we offer modules according to participants´requests. This year the modules are:

• Creativity and Innovation in the Language Classroom
• Pronunciation and Grammar develoment from Pre-Intermediate to Advanced
• Teaching CLIL and Teaching Young Learners
• Using TICS, Leadership and Team work techniques for the Classroom
• Improving the Fours Skills using learning strategies 

2. Developing Conversational Skills

From Jan 11 to Jan 27, Mondays and Wednesdays from 17:00 to 20:00

This course has been developed especially for those professionals who want to both develop better listening and teaching skills themselves and who wish to convey those skills to their students. Each session is led by a native English teacher and will include various fun and challenging activities that are designed to identify deficits of current listening and speaking skills.

3. Improving Writing Skills

From Jan 12 to Jan 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17:00 to 20:00

This is the course for all those who need to improve their writing skills under the concept of writing as a cognitive process. You will learn how to develop different kinds of texts with particular emphasis to the organization, layout, editing and proof reading of academic texts.

4. Cambridge English: First (FCE)

From Jan 12 to March 10, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17:00 to 21:00 and Saturdays from 9:00 to 13:00.

 A comprehensive preparation course to take the exam in March and have the possibility to thoroughly prepare without the constraints of lack of time due to working responsibilities. 

5. TKT CLIL : Preparation Course for this Specialisation exam from Jan 13 to February 26. Wednesdays from 15:00 to 17:00

6. TKT Young Learners: Preparation course for this Specialisation exam from Jan 13 to February 24 from 17:30 - 19:00

INFORMES:

ctsperu@customizedtrainingperu.com

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FCE Speaking exams

If you are preparing for taking the FCE 2014, you may find these guidelines and advice useful.

 

FCE for Teachers: Writing

As one of the tutors of this course, organized by Customized Training Services, we have discussed with our students and have found out that in our case the best preparation for the Writing paper is to practice in two or three of the different model texts that have to be developed.

One of these written texts is an essay.

It is for this reason that I would like to share this presentation with a compilation of some ideas to improve your essay writing.

Essay writing from Maria Mu