English for Law in New York City is aimed at qualified barristers and solicitors, junior lawyers, law students and legal secretaries.
English for Law is offered as one-to-one private Platinum English language Course for Professionals. You can choose a private Platinim course with 15 or 20 one-to-one lessons a week. This course can be combined with mini-group General English and/or Business English Platinum courses. In this case, we recommend a combined Platinum Plus course. You will learn General and/or Business English in mini-group with other executives and professionals and English for Law in private classes (you can choose 1 one-to-one lesson a day in addition to the group Platininum classes). English for Law is also available as a closed mini-group course for 3 to 5 students arriving together.
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Lesson
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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9:00- 10:50
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Skill: Speaking / Listening
Introductions.
Professional profiles.
Language assessment.
Grammar review.
Fine-tune course content
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Input: Vocabulary & Language of Presentations.
Skill: Speaking / Listening
Presenting your case, language of persuasion, diplomacy. Summarising and concluding.
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Skill: Speaking Listening
TV Courtroom
Expressing facts & sequence of events
Reporting verbs
Grammar:
Reported Speech
Remedial pronunciation work.
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Group videoed discussion
Skill: Speaking Listening
Meetings and Negotiations. Chairing, participating & contributing. Giving / asking for opinions. Turn-taking & interrupting. Summarising & concluding. Discussion based on previous day's Court visit.
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Company Law - Case Study
Input: Vocabulary
Skill: Listening to short DVD presentation. Note-taking, group discussion. Oral and written consolidation of week's vocabulary, function and grammar.
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11:10- 12:00
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Topic Lesson
Input: Vocabulary
Skill: Reading / Speaking
Discussing case report and/or statute
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Input: Grammar
Remedial work based on presentation.
Interrogative forms, Passive voice.
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Skill: Speaking
Language for clarifying, rephrasing, checking & confirming information
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Grammar:
2nd and 3rd Conditional for expressing hypothesis
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Skill: Speaking / Listening
Video recording of prepared individual Presentations of group members (individual case studies/law reports)
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12:10- 13:00
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Skill: Speaking
Fluency practice, feedback and remedial work on grammar and pronunciation
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Contract & Company Law
Input: Vocabulary
Legal language, terminology & word families.
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Role Play: The Law Firm
Debriefing colleagues
Possibilities v Facts
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Skill: Reading & Writing
Legal documentation
Emails
Plain English v Legalese
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Continuation of above.
Remedial grammar and pronunciation.
Group Lunch
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LUNCH
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13:50- 14:40
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Skill: Listening
TV Courtroom programme:
Note-taking
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Learner training: Using a mono-lingual dictionary, vocabulary files, storage and retrieval
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Visit to Law Court
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Skill: Speaking
Language of possibility, certainty. Modal verbs, passive voice.
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Skill: Speaking
Group viewing of videoed presentations.
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14:55- 15:45
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Skill: Speaking
Summarising information, comparing data, agreeing and disagreeing
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Skill: Reading & Speaking
European Law &
Human Rights
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Visit to Law Court
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Professional visit to Legal Institution.
Exploring legal resources
Social English practice
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Group discussion on performance.
Error analysis and oral feedback. Advice for further study.
Farewell party
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