Looking for a fun course to refresh your English? Whether it’s for your holiday, your job, or just to keep your brain linguistically fit, come and join us. We’ll be using Spotlight magazine (one issue per semester), along with other reading materials (e.g. short stories, newspaper articles). Although the emphasis is on fluency, grammar weakness will be addressed as needed. All this in a relaxed and positive learning environment!
Our main reading material is "Spotlight". This magazine provides a rich blend of topics which will enable you to practise and improve your speaking skills both in everyday life and in business situations, expand and enrich your vocabulary and, when necessary, smooth out those recurring grammatical problems. And all this in a relaxed and fun classroom environment.
We discuss topics of interest to the group, often drawing from articles from "Spotlight" magazine and other sources.
We mean business! This course will target speaking and writing skills for business communication. During 12 sessions we will focus on six main points: Networking skills, Writing e-mails in preparation for meetings, Communicating accurately, Preparing a presentation, Making requests, Offers and recommendations, Reporting factual information. This course will provide you with strategies to communicate more efficiently and polish your English skills for a professional environment. Nach der Anmeldung erhalten Sie rechtzeitig den nötigen Link, mit dem Sie sich bequem von jedem Ort aus auf einem entsprechenden Gerät einloggen können.
Anmeldeschluss am Tag vor Veranstaltungsbeginn.
Do you like reading in English? Are you interested in classical as well as contemporary literature? Would you like to get more out of the book you are currently reading? Can you imagine discussing your impressions with others who have also read this book? Do you wish to exercise and improve your speaking skills? If two or more of the above apply, then why not sign up for an adventure into the world of fiction? We buy our own books and meet once in month. Book to be read for the first session: Benjamin Myers – The Offing.
Intrigue, vanity, compassion, epiphany, fear, and wonder, all compressed into the space of a few pages. In cultivating such moods and states, flash fiction is as equally brilliant for what it includes in print as for what it leaves to our imaginations! Each class, we will discuss one of the twentieth-century stories from the „DTV zweisprachig“ collection "22 kurze Kurzgeschichten", beginning with John Updike‘s "The Abandoned Swimming Pool" (please read the story before our first Zoom meeting) and continuing in subsequent classes with selections by Graham Greene, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. For your reading ease, each story can be read in the original English with a German translation on each facing page. Nach der Anmeldung erhalten Sie rechtzeitig den nötigen Link, mit dem Sie sich bequem von jedem Ort aus auf einem entsprechenden Gerät einloggen können.