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Friday, April 1, 2011

British Council Plans to Improve the Reach of its English Teaching Work

The British Council has plans to improve the reach of its English Teaching Work in both India and Sri Lanka with in next five years. The Teachning Centres of British Council also plans to increase the number of admissions from 370,000 to one million.

The video below shows the first teaching centre inaugurated in Chennai to meet the huge demand from Chennai public for programmes and centres. The centre employs local teachers and offer courses to needy at a nominal hourly fee.

For more information about the British Council's work in India, see britishcouncil.org/​india.

Learn English the British Council way


EnglishSpeak.com Spoken English Tool : Website Review

Englishspeak.com is a free website launched by InstantSpeak LLC, a popular brand in the language training discipline. This review focuses on the website and its content and how best its thousands of audio files provide access to English lessons on conversations, common English words and phrases.

 Media of Instructions

The website offers has translated this course in Chinese and Spanish and offer instructions in various language mediums including: English, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Burmese, Chin, Deutsch, EspaƱol, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portugues, Russian and so on. More translation of this course in popular languages will be launched soon. EnglishSpeak.com is very keen in imparting pronunciation and accent. 

Emphasis on  Pronunciation

The students could help themselves by exploiting the script and the related audio form and enjoy the nuances of the language. The website could also be used to teach vocabulary, pronunciation and English accent as spoken by the native speakers. Listening the conversation will hone their English conversation skills. They could improve their language fluency by listening these conversation lessons.


Free Course Material To Teach and Learn

In Indian metros and towns number of branded and non-branded institutions offer courses on English speaking skills and English fluency skills and demand huge money. EnglishSpeak.com offer much better course with an excellent audio support. The audio files will definitely reinforce your ability to learn English words, phrases and conversations with right pronunciation, stress and intonation. The website has comprehensive collection of teaching material to enable the learner to focus his learning and practicing at this website itself. 

Suggestion for Off-Line Instruction Resources

Of course this website will be mush useful provided if you have a dedicated Internet connectivity. However most the young and adult learners living in developing nations may not able to access this wonderful website in the absence of Internet. If the developers of this website provide the offline content it will also be useful for the less advantage group. The administrators may include more and more conversation files.