Presentation Skills
This course will teach you how to present your products, services, and ideas effectively to a British or American audience. You will be able to use audience analysis and planning skills to structure your presentation to make sense to the audience and to fit their thinking. You will practice using body language skills to build rapport with the audience so that they instinctively feel more favourable to the argument you are presenting. And, of course, you will learn the right vocabulary and phrasing in English to make your message clearly understood. All of which will give you increased confidence and set you on the path of becoming a superb presenter - in English!

Team Development
This course shows you the eight different roles assumed by people who work in teams or work groups. A powerful and well proven psychometric developed at the University of Cambridge in England and extensively used by companies in Europe will show you the extent and degree of your own preferences. By understanding yourself you will also start to better understand the other people you work with and learn how to create the optimum conditions for synergistic teamwork. You will understand the stages involved in the development of a team - be it a formal project team or an informal work group - and start to see how a high performance team is developed to get real results for its members and for the business. In the international world of modern business teams often crossover national boundaries and you will often need to be able to explain and implement these ideas in English.

Persuasion
Persuasion is an innate human skill that we all use in one form or another from early childhood. We all know that it is not easy or effective. This course will show you the different styles of Persuasion that are available and the extent to which you habitually use them. It will take you through the preparation needed before embarking upon a persuasion exercise and give you a practical checklist of points to remember. You will have the chance to develop you own persuasion case study and see how good you are at getting results with other people and how you can use different influencing styles to be more effective. Persuasion is an essential skill for anybody working in business with other people and in today's global environment is a skill which you should be able to dominate in English.

The Language of Personal Marketing
Texts, discussions, case studies, practical mini-seminaries, reflective tools and dynamics allowing the participants to become more aware of what makes you unique and to enable you to create a Personal Marketing Plan in order to rapidly transform your career and make you stand out in a more visual and competitive society.
Scope: module contents:

• The art of communication: promoting your image and designing your personal campaign.
• Appearance and Fitness: the world treats you better if you have a better image.
• Work and Career: Invest in yourself.
• Individual Plan: personal image management,
• … and lots more!

Business Skills
This course aims to boost learners’ communicative power as self-reliant speakers of English in both professional and social situations. Based on a lively fictitious "business role-play", an authentic and challenging business situation unfolds where learners are the players and have to decide on the appropriate courses of action to manage the outcomes that occur. It is an exercise in crisis management guided with an easy to follow ‘framework’ where students participate in presentations and meetings, write e-mails and short reports, take stands, make decisions and negotiate deadlines and alliances.

The English Village Grammar Weekend is a course in English grammar that has been specially developed for Brazilian adult learners. It covers some of the main grammar topics and issues that are pertinent to Brazilians learning English for professional reasons.
"Portuguese tends to be spoken at a lower pitch than English, but at a higher volume. The strong syllable stress and lack of markers for questions forms in Portuguese (polite requests are made in the imperative) often creates the (erroneous) impression that the Brazilian speaker is rude, irritated or angry.
Normally accepted non-emotional eye contact is lengthier among Brazilians than with most Europeans and Americans. People stand closer together when they talk, and physical touching is more widely acceptable. These conventions can be misinterpreted."
In theory, the grammar of a language can be seen as a set of words and category symbols that, together with the rules governing their combination, make sentences. It is, in human terms however, what speakers know of their language, independent of their ability to use that knowledge practically.