You work for a multinational pharmaceutical producer. You are the head of the international sales department coordinating an area encompassing eastern Europe and central Asia. Your work language is English. You don’t travel much but you have regular tele-conferences with your partners., You are a professional gymnast. Although only 14, you have already won a number of international competitions at junior level. You have a full-time training schedule and you have to do school work as well. You need English because you don’t want to be isolated when abroad., You are a school teacher of history and literature. You would like to join an international partner school project with your sts from grades 9-11. The project language is English. However, you never had much English tuition and you fear that your sts’ proficiency is much better than yours., You are a PhD student in the marine biology department at a prestigious French university. You have an opportunity to spend six months at Griffith University in Queensland, but you must have C1 level of English. Your English isn’t bad, but since leaving school you haven’t had much opportunity to speak or learn English, and frankly the ESP course offered by your uni was a waste of time., You have twenty years’ of experience working in accounts departments with French businesses. Now you would like to move to an international company but you have already been told by an HR agency that you need to speak English. You last spoke English at university – it wasn’t bad then but you are painfully shy and self-conscious and you know that a group course will not help you., You are a teacher of English at a state school in Paris. You would like to improve your English with a view to taking CAE or CPE, and then applying for CELTA. You have mentioned this to your colleagues, but they simply laughed at the idea of professional development. You have tried group lessons before, but you didn’t like the inevitable mixed abilities in the groups., You are a housewife with two school-age children. Your husband is a software developer and he wants the family to emigrate to New Zealand where he thinks life is better and the children will have more opportunities in the future. You need to prove upper-intermediate level of English as part of the family’s application. You learned German at school and have no English., You are a conductor with a promising international career. You have no problems communicating with musicians and whole orchestras, but you struggle with everything else. You need to be able to negotiate effectively with administrative officials such as theatres, concert promoters, etc. You travel a lot., You are the CEM of the French office of a multi-national company which manufactures and sells machinery to manufacturers worldwide. Your boss is based in Prague and he speaks French. However, you know that your entire staff, even your PA speaks better English than you do and it is frankly embarrassing., You originally trained as an engineer, but you have been working for many years in the after-sales department of a company which sells heavy machinery for industrial production. You now want to move to a similar job with a multi-national company where you will have to read handbooks and technical manuals quickly and accurately in order to help your customers. You didn't learn English at school and frankly the English class at university was a total waste of time..

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