Frequently Asked Questions
1. What’s different about your course?
Unlock Global English is a practical approach for resolving work place listening and speaking issues in English
when it’s not your – or your colleagues’ – first language. Understanding the causes of common communication issues is the first step to overcoming them with explaatios and targeted practice. Each live session has three steps:
Step1: Listen in your own time to real-life global English speakers. Focus on the basic sounds and how these differ and change, particularly when people speak fast. Learn how they’re influenced by the speaker’s mother tongue and culture.
Step 2: Track these sounds as they’re built up into words, phrases and sentences. Notice the different stress and intonation patterns they follow which are very different between languages, often a major cause of communication breakdowns in English between speakers of different first languages.
Step 3: Apply this knowledge of sounds and speech patterns to both the new and existing words in your vocabulary.
Armed with these tools, you’ll find understanding, and being understood by, your colleagues, easier and more natural.
2. Why is the course more expensive than others offered online?
The courses are designed to the highest standards based on my years of experience and qualifications. Each UGE package includes customised pre-session materials, ongoing assessments, live sessions, personalised feeback, and the technical systems required for a professional online language coaching service. Office-hours contact is also available throughout the course.
3. How will I receive the materials?
The sound files are sent directly as links which you can open and listen to on any of your devices. All other materials are available as a permanent digital record for you to refer to.
4. Who should take your course/s?
Unlock Global English is designed for international English speakers at intermediate level or higher (B1 – C1). We’ll establish your start point using online tools and a preliminary call.
5. What will I be able to do by the end of your course?
You’ll be able to:
– hold conversations at a higher level, getting results faster and more efficiently
– focus on effective professional communications with colleagues
– look forward to doing the job you love as well as you possibly can – and relax!