🥇 Business English Skills for: -- Business and tech professions -- Driving meetings and discussions -- Leading project communication -- Conducting presentations -- Giving status report -- Understanding and communicating requirements and design -- Collecting information for decision-making 🥈Classroom English Skills for: -- Study abroad students -- Asking questions -- Participating classroom discussion -- Supporting argument -- Agree to disagree -- Conducting presentations and report -- Writing papers and essays 🥉Life and travel English Skills for: -- World travelers -- People who are going to move to the US for work or to start a family -- Asking and looking for help -- Handling cultural difference -- Getting along with new family members -- Communicating difference to boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife -- Standing up for yourself and winning an argument **What you will get out of this class:** 🧨 Speak ONLY English in the class and learn authentic English expressions 🥳 Build up your comfort and confidence level speaking English 🧨 Enhance your skills to communicate and support your ideas 🥳 Practice how to properly respond to others and show empathy in English 🧨 Develop strategy carrying out a difficult conversation in English (This is a bonus to communicate in your mother tone too!!) **What we will be doing in the class:** ⌚️ The first 25-minute: We will focus on small talk. You will be practicing talking about: - Home, work, school - Hobby, adventure, event, activity - Anything new in life lately - Any good in life lately - Anything bad in life lately - Anything that makes you happy - Anything that makes you sad - Anything that makes you angry - Anything that makes you frustrated ⌚️ The second 25-minute: We will switch to discuss articles/shows you read or watch on your own. - Reading/watching TV shows is the best way of self-learning. - The article/show will be about a topic of your interest. - You CAN, but you DON'T need to read/watch the whole article/show all at once. - We will focus on the part you read/watch in class and keep working on the rest. - You will practice making a summary of what you read/watch. - You will practice talking about the topic using your own words. - You will practice clarifying your thoughts to help other people understand your ideas. - You will practice expressing opinions to show agree or disagree. - You will practice supporting your ideas with examples. - You will practice asking questions to elicit other people's ideas. - You will practice properly respond to other people's ideas. - You will learn new vocabulary from the article we read or the show we watch. - You will learn sentence structure and grammar, too, when it's applicable. **Material we use in the class:** ⭐️ We will decide the topic together. It should be topics of your interest. ⭐️ It can be business, academia, lifestyle, technology, science, and so on. ⭐️ I will pick the material from publishers that are popular in the US ⭐️ We can read material from your work or school as well **What are the sample topics** ⭐️ Life in the US vs. in your country ⭐️ Tips for communicating with your English-speaking significant the other half ⭐️ How to handle the relationship with your American family to be ⭐️ The work environment in the US vs. in your country ⭐️ Social issues and studies ⭐️ Your major or school work ⭐️ Software project management: Agile, scrum, and so on ⭐️ Software development life cycle: Waterfall, CI/CD, and so on **Homework** ✏️ Weekly reading or TV series assignment - it's a do-your-best style. ✏️ The material is to facilitate the discussion, not to judge your effort. ✏️ We all have a life and work to take care of. Let's do our best here. ✏️ We may identify writing assignments based on the progress and topic of the class - if you are up for it. **About Nars** **About Nars** 🦞 Taught both English and Chinese to people from all over the world over the years. 🦞 We can make progress and have fun. 🦞 I promise you will feel great speaking English the way you never think you can. 🦞 I have lived in Boston since 2011. 🦞 I didn't think moving to the US, studying, and working here was something possible because I didn't have the resource to do it. 🦞 Even though I didn't have much, I didn't give up either. 🦞 Ten years later now, I live in a city where it snows in the winter and I speak English 24/7 at home and at work. 🦞 Living in the US is NOT the awesome part of this journey - having achieved something that was close to impossible is. 🦞 I am a technical program manager/software project manager. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/narschang/) 🦞 I teach English and Mandarin because I am passionate about teaching and connecting to my students. 🦞 Being able to speak English better opens many doors for me, and I want you to have the same opportunities if this is what you are looking for. ** Class Etiquette** ☑️ English ONLY please. You can read or watch TV shows on your own, but you can't practice speaking English by yourself. ☑️ Let's make your money worth by speaking as mush English as possible. ☑️ If you need to cancel a class, please do your best and cancel the class 12 hours before it’s start time.