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February 2010
35 Kenton area students qualify
Thirty-five residents from around the Kenton-on-Sea and Bushman‘s area received certificates in English communication...

ABET

Open Doors By Speaking English

 

Improving your English speaking skills will help you communicate more easily and effectively, and practicing at speaking English where and when you can, will go a long way in improving your speech, and if you concentrate on using simple sentences that you know are correct, it will build your self confidence. Once you have attended a course on speaking English, the doors of employment will more readily open for you, and answering a telephone in a company might be your first step to earning an income with your newly acquired skills.

Speak slowly and clearly:


Listening to someone speaking in a second language over the telephone can be very challenging because you cannot see the person you are trying to hear and it may be difficult for the person you are talking with to understand you. If you are nervous about speaking English, you may notice yourself speaking very quickly, so a tip is to practice or write down what you are going to say and take a few deep breaths before you make a phone call. It's not a good idea to pretend to understand everything you hear over the telephone and even people fluent in English ask each other to repeat and confirm information from time to time. This is especially important if you are taking a message for someone else. Learn the appropriate expressions that English speakers use when they don't hear something properly.

Today, American English is particularly influential, due to their dominance of television, music, and technology, including the Internet, but there are many other varieties of English around the world, including for example Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English and Indian English.

Lessons in speaking English at Triple E provides an introduction, step by step teaching guidelines and printable student worksheets and they assist hundreds of company's in objectively assessing the foreign language proficiency of their employees to ensure that their language abilities meet the skill requirements for the position.