Meetings
Participate more clearly, explain an idea, respond to questions and handle disagreement.
Professional English
Your knowledge may already be excellent.
Your English should allow people to see it.
You may know your work very well. But in English, you may speak less than you want to.
You may hesitate in meetings, simplify an idea too much, avoid a question or remain quiet because someone else is more comfortable speaking.
Professional English is not about impressive words. It is about expressing professional thoughts well.
Your profession becomes our material
English should support your profession.
Interviews
Work with your own experience instead of memorising model answers that do not sound like you.
Presentations
Practise the parts that cannot be scripted: interruptions, clarifications and new questions.
Clarity sounds more professional than complexity.
Broadcast & Media English
Reporting has changed.
On Location
Developing Story
Live Update
Anchor Question
Respond
For a young reporter today, gathering the story is only part of the job. News is increasingly live.
A reporter may be expected to reach a location, understand a developing situation, speak to sources, absorb new information and then go on camera almost immediately.
There may be little time to prepare a script. The anchor may ask an unexpected question. The facts may change while the reporter is speaking.
Live reporting does not wait for the perfect sentence.
The cub reporter on the ground
You already know the story. I help you find the English to tell it.
A young field reporter is often learning several things at once: how to gather information, how to judge what matters, how to respond to the newsroom, how to face the camera and how to describe a developing situation naturally and confidently in English.
There is no embarrassment in needing help with that. It is a demanding professional skill.
For a young reporter building a career, stronger English delivery can allow the quality of the reporting itself to come through more clearly.
Not to change the reporter. To help the reporter communicate with greater ease when the camera goes live.
Practising the real situation
You bring the journalism. We work on the English.
Our sessions can recreate the pressure of on-ground reporting. I give you a developing situation. You have limited time to understand it. Then you report.
I may interrupt as an anchor would, ask for clarification, introduce a new fact or ask you to explain what the development actually means.
We then look at sentence construction, grammar, repetition, choice of words, clarity, spontaneous expression and the ability to continue when the next sentence has not been prepared.
Talk. Correct. Practise. Improve.