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BASIC BUSINESS

This course is designed for individuals who are new to the business world. Even if your English proficiency is not very high, you will be able to understand the course material with ease. The course aims to establish a strong foundation of academic and business skills that will benefit those who plan to study advanced level business English in the future. However, it should be noted that this course is not a comprehensive practical business curriculum.

CURRICULUM FEATURES

  • This course serves as a pre-business program and provides a strong foundation for advanced business. Admission requires an upper-elementary level (TOEIC 400 or IELTS around 3.0).

  • Easy business curriculum for Business Starters
    Easy-level business textbooks are used, with 70-80% of the class covering business and the remaining 30% covering ESL.
  • Business & TOEIC collaboration: One-on-one and small group classes can be changed to TOEIC subjects. Up to 2 hours.
COURSE DURATION
  • 1 – 12 weeks
  • It is generally recommended to limit the course to 4 or 8 weeks, although it can go up to 12 weeks.
CURRICULUM
CLASS TYPE NUMBER OF CLASSES SUBJECTS

1 ON 1

3

Business Speaking Business Correspondence Business Listening Business Reading and Vocabulary

SMALL GROUP CLASS
(45 Minutes)

2

Basic Business Talk Job Interview TED Talk Daily News Speak Like a Pro

SMALL GROUP CLASS
(Connecting)

2

Basic Accent Training Storytelling and Presentations

BIG GROUP CLASS
(Optional)

1

Basic Listening and Dictation TOEIC Supplemental Grammar Basic Supplemental Vocabulary Premium English

EVENING ACTIVITY
(Optional; Monday-Thursday)

1

Monday: Yoga
Tuesday: Readers’ Rendezvous
Wednesday: Glee Club
Thursday: Movie Club
TOTAL 8


One on One Class

  • Business Speaking – This class focuses on honing effective communication skills for socializing, telephoning, and job interviews to enhance participants’ interpersonal and professional interactions.
  • Business Correspondence – This class focuses on developing students’ ability to write clear and effective professional emails, letters, and reports. It emphasizes the correct format, tone, and language to ensure appropriate communication in various business scenarios.
  • Business Listening – This listening class incorporates diverse audio materials featuring various workplace scenarios to enhance participants’ comprehension and proficiency in understanding and responding to real-life workplace situations.
  • Business Reading and Vocabulary – This class enhances reading comprehension and vocabulary development by focusing on business-related texts, helping students expand their professional vocabulary and improve their ability to understand and analyze business documents.

Small Group Class (45 Minutes)

  • Basic Business Talk – This class helps students build a solid foundation in business communication, focusing on essential vocabulary, phrases, and conversational skills needed to navigate common workplace interactions confidently.
  • Job Interview – This small group class is tailored to equip participants with essential skills for successful job interviews, covering general topics such as effective communication, common interview questions, body language, and strategies to showcase one’s strengths and experiences professionally.
  • TED Talk – This class centers around watching TED Talks as a learning methodology, allowing participants to analyze and glean insights from the diverse range of impactful presentations, fostering a deeper understanding of effective communication, and compelling storytelling.
  • Daily News – The daily news comprehension class is designed to improve participants’ understanding of current events by analyzing and discussing news articles, fostering critical thinking, and honing language skills to facilitate informed discussions on a wide range of contemporary issues.
  • Speak Like a Pro – Designed to help students develop advanced speaking skills for professional or formal communication. This type of class focuses on refining fluency, pronunciation, intonation, and the use of complex language structures to sound more natural and confident in a variety of professional contexts.

Small Group Class (Connecting)

  • Basic Accent Training – This class focuses on improving pronunciation and speech clarity, helping students reduce accent barriers and speak with greater confidence and accuracy in English.
  • Storytelling and Presentations – This class teaches students how to craft and deliver compelling stories and presentations, focusing on narrative techniques, audience engagement, and clear communication to captivate listeners.

Big Group Class

  • Basic Listening and Dictation – This class combines listening exercises and dictation practice to improve participants’ comprehension and transcription skills, using audio materials to enhance language learning and accuracy.
  • TOEIC Supplemental Grammar – This course offers additional support to refine grammar skills, focusing on key grammar rules and practical exercises to boost overall language proficiency for the TOEIC exam.
  • Basic Supplemental Vocabulary – This class helps expand vocabulary by providing additional exercises and practical applications to enhance word knowledge and linguistic proficiency.
  • Premium English – This class of up to 15 students focuses on the forms, functions, and application of formal English in all aspects of language proficiency, particularly in speaking and conversation.
ADMISSION QUALIFICATION & DATE
AGE PHILINTER LEVEL (CODE) IELTS TOEIC
18 + Upper Elementary (201+) 3.0 above 400 above
  • You MUST PASS THE ONLINE INTERVIEW before and after registering for this course.
  • However, to adapt to this course, at least an upper-elementary level is required. IELTS is 3.0 above, and TOEIC is 400 above.

ADMISSION DATE

  • Every Sunday (Please inquire in advance for Saturday Admission)
DAILY SCHEDULE

The following is an example of a Basic Business course routine. The student can change the start time and vacant time to suit their lifestyle.

TIME ACTIVITY CLASS TYPE SUBJECT / CLASS
07:30 – 08:10 am BREAKFAST
08:00 – 08:45 am 1st Class BGC Listening and Dictation
08:50 – 09:35 am 2nd Class SGC Business Talk
09:40 – 10:25 am 3rd Class 1on1 Business Writing & Correspondence
10:30 – 11:15 am 4th Class 1on1 Business Speaking
11:20 – 12:00 am 5th Class
11:50 – 13:00 pm LUNCH
13:00 – 13:45 pm 6th Class SGC Basic Accent Training
13:50 – 14: 35 pm 7th Class 1on1 Business Vocabulary
14:40 – 15:25 pm 8th Class 1on1 Business Speaking 2
15:30 – 16:15 pm 9th Class BGC Supplemental Grammar
16:20 – 17:00 pm 10th Class
17:30 – 18:10 pm DINNER
18:10 – 19:00 pm
19:00 – 20:00 pm
20:00 – 21:00 pm

SGC – Small Group Class

BGC – Big Group Class

EXAMS

Placement Test

Every Monday. The initial consultation is given right after the exam, followed by school orientation in the afternoon. Regular classes begin on Tuesday morning; however, for short-term classes of 1-2 weeks, classes start on Monday afternoon.


Weekly Test

The weekly test covers the following areas: (1) Grammar for Speaking, (2) Pattern English, (3) Usage of Verbs, and (4) Essential Vocabulary. Tests are conducted once a week in these four areas, starting at 5 PM on Wednesday and lasting 20 minutes. Participation in this test is optional.


Progress Test

Once a month every Friday to assess the monthly progress. Short-term students (those enrolled for less than 1 month) may not take the test. Students within 2 weeks of admission or 2 weeks before graduation can take regular classes without participating in the test.


TOEIC Mock Test

Held every other week. If you wish, you can participate in this test. However, general ESL students pay a fee.

PHILINTER LANGUAGE LEVEL

Our systematic level system ensures substantial growth in your English proficiency!

We accurately assess students’ current English skills and expedite their progress to higher levels. As their English proficiency advances, we provide tailored guidance on official test scores that align with their level and recommend the most suitable courses for their progression.

PHILINTER’s result-oriented educational operation begins with this systematic and precise level system

PHILINTER Level EQUIVALENT SCORE
IELTS TOEIC TOEFL DET CAMBRIDGE CEFR
601 Proficient 8.5 – 9.0 955 – 990 110 – 120 145 – 160 Proficiency (CPE) C2
501 + Upper Advanced 7.5 – 8.0 930 – 950 106 – 109 135 – 140 Advanced (CAE) C1
501 Advanced 7.0 905 – 925 100 – 105 130 Advanced (CAE) C1
401 + Pre-Advanced 6.5 855 – 900 86 – 99 120 – 125 First (FCE) B2
401 Upper-Intermediate 5.5 – 6.0 700 – 850 79 – 85 115 First (FCE) B2
301 + Intermediate 4.5 – 5.0 490 – 600 65 – 78 100 – 110 Preliminary (PET) B1
301 Pre-Intermediate 3.5 – 4.0 400 – 485 53 – 64 90 – 95 B1
201 + Upper Elementary 3.0 345 – 390 41 – 52 80 – 85 Key (KET) A2
201 Elementary 2.0 – 2.5 250 – 340 30 – 40 70 – 75 A2
101 + Upper Beginner 1.5 160 – 240 19 – 29 60 – 65 A1
101 Beginner 1.0 0 – 155 0 – 18 10 – 55 Pre-A1

 

LEVEL DESCRIPTION

Describes the details of English proficiency for each level.

PHILINTER LEVEL DESCRIPTION
601 Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations.
501 + Can reformulate ideas differently in order to ensure that people understand exactly what is meant, eliminating the possibility of misunderstandings. Also, has a good command of a broad vocabulary, including collocations and idiomatic expressions; Can overcome gaps in vocabulary with alternatives. Can consistently maintain a high degree of grammatical accuracy; errors are rare and difficult to spot. Can express myself fluently and spontaneously, almost effortlessly.
501 Can express fluently and spontaneously, except occasionally, when speaking about a conceptually difficult subject. Has a good command of a broad vocabulary. Can sometimes have to search for expressions but can then find alternatives to express what he/she wants to say. Maintains a high degree of grammatical control in speech and writing.
401 + Can express clearly and without much sign of having to restrict what he/she wants to say. Can reformulate ideas in different ways to ensure people understand exactly what is meant. Can maintain good grammatical control. Can sometimes make mistakes but can easily correct them afterwards. Can communicate fluently and spontaneously, even when talking at length about complex subjects.
401 Can communicate with reasonable accuracy and can correct mistakes if they have led to misunderstandings. Has a sufficient range of vocabulary to vary formulation and avoid repetition. Can produce stretches of language with a fairly even tempo; although can be hesitant when searching for expressions, there are few noticeably long pauses. Can sustain relationships with native speakers without unintentionally amusing or irritating them or requiring them to behave other than they would with a native speaker.
301 + Can communicate with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts, though with noticeable influences from mother tongue. Has a sufficient range of language to describe unusual and predictable situations and to express thoughts on abstract or cultural as well as everyday topics (such as music, films). Can express relatively easily when talking freely and keep the conversation going effectively without help, despite occasional pauses to plan and correct what is being said.
301 Can keep a conversation going, but sometimes have to pause to plan and correct what is being said. Knows enough vocabulary to talk about family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, news and current events. Can use simple expressions politely in a neutral way in everyday situations.
201 + Can generally communicate the main points of what is wanting to say, though sometimes have to simplify it. Knows enough vocabulary for familiar everyday situations and topics but needs to search for the words and sometimes must simplify. Can participate in a longer conversation about familiar topics, but often needs to stop and think or start again in a different way. Can socialize simply but effectively using the simplest common expressions and routines.
201 Can communicate in a simple and direct exchange of limited information; in other situations, can generally have to compromise the message. Can use correctly simple phrases learnt for specific situations, but often make basic mistakes – for example mixing up tenses and forgetting to use the right endings. Has enough vocabulary to communicate in simple everyday situations. Can understand with short, simple phrases, but often needs to stop, try with different words – or repeat more clearly.
101 + Can communicate limited information about self, family and job in a simple and direct exchange. Has a basic repertoire of phrases to talk about oneself and communicate in common everyday situations. Can use correctly some simple structures that has been memorized. Can speak slowly in a series of very short phrases, stopping and starting when trying to say different words.
101 Can speak in very short phrases and isolated words. Has a very basic repertoire of words and simple phrases about family and personal details, plus simple everyday situations. Can use memorized, short phrases for specific purposes with reasonable accuracy.

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