What is BerlitzEnglish?

To create an English course for today, Berlitz took the best of the proven Berlitz Method® and incorporated our latest research on language learning. The result is BerlitzEnglish, a new program that is more engaging, flexible and goal-oriented. For example, both classroom activities and the fully intergrated course materials feature up-to-date, real-life experiences. Students practice making telephone calls, ordering food, even planning a trip. It’s the fastest, most effective way to reach your goals whether students want to learn for work, school or travel.

• BerlitzEnglish gives you more ways to learn.
• BerlitzEnglish is unique among language programs; it provides language training for the real world through real-life scenarios in the classroom and study materials.
• You’ll learn English by hearing, speaking and even thinking in English so you will be ready to use it in everyday situations.
• Your BerlitzEnglish program includes an audio CD, English Passport magazine, a student book and custom organizer.

Curriculum

The program consists of eight levels and each level has its own specialty designed Student Book.

• Learn what you need to know on a wide variety of theme-based chapters.
• Read authentic materials that native speakers use in their everyday lives.
• Become familiar with phrases commonly used by native English speakers on a daily basis.
• Benefit from feature sections that demonstrate how the spoken language is applied.

• Improve your pronunciation and listening skills by hearing English speakers in conversation.
• Listen to the audio CD at home or on the go.

• Study at home, or wherever it’s most convenient, with multimedia exercises that build on classroom instruction.
• Practice grammar, reading, listening and pronunciation at your own pace.
• Find additional links and study resources.
  

Specializations:

For Levels 5 –8 BerlitzEnglish offers special areas of study. The student’s material is divided into 6 Chapters of general English study and 6 Chapters of specialized study. The areas of specialized study include Negotiations, Business I & II, E-mail & Business Writing, Meetings & Presentations, Social Situations, Arts & Entertainment and Pronunciation. For more details please refer to the list below.

• Business I & II: Business I & II emphasize business idioms, terms and concepts in major functional areas of a corporation such as marketing, sales, accounting, human resources and customer service.
• Meetings & Presentations: Meetings & Presentations covers all aspects of organizing, preparing for, participating in, and leading a meeting or a presentation. Subjects include opening a meeting, recapping, soliciting participant feedback, mediating disagreements, handling questions, etc.
• E-mails & Business Writings: E-mails & Business Writings focus on writing, phrasing and expressions commonly used in business correspondence. Topics include components of an e-mail message, openings and closings of messages, tone, register, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
• Pronunciation: Pronunciation emphasizes consonant and vowel sounds, word and sentence stress, rhythm and intonation.
• Social Situations: Social Situations emphasizes idiomatic expressions specific to social interaction covering subjects such as invitations, food situations, money matters, etc.
• Negotiations: This supplement covers the essential issues students face transferring their negotiating skills to English. The program covers all phases involved in the Negotiation Process, from preparing and developing a strategy to make an offer, bargaining and closing the deal.
• Arts & Entertainment: Arts & Entertainment emphasizes vocabulary and expressions relating to entertainment and the arts, covering subjects like movie reviews, architectural successes, pop music, Hollywood happenings, creative collaborations and fashion.