ONAI ENGLISH

Gi­ve a man a fish and you fe­ed him for a day; te­ach a man to fish and you fe­ed him for a li­fe­ti­me (Phi­lo­sop­her Mo­ses)

The edi­tors at Es­sa­yKZ Ho­use ha­ve for years pro­vi­ded cus­tom-pac­ka­ged es­say wri­ting ser­vi­ces to cli­ents for such pur­po­ses as aca­de­mic edi­ting, app­li­cati­on forms and aca­demic wri­ting re­cent­ly. Alt­ho­ugh the­se ser­vi­ces are use­ful, we’ve co­me to re­ali­ze that we co­uld help far mo­re pe­op­le with the­ir Eng­lish spe­aking skills and lan­gu­age comp­re­hen­si­on thro­ugh a mo­dern tech­ni­que of con­tent le­ar­ning.

The­re is no gram­mar, sty­le or any ot­her clas­sic ru­les to te­ac­hing a lan­gu­age. Ins­te­ad we will im­merse you in­to the mo­dern con­tent of va­ri­ous bu­siness li­tera­ture and sto­ri­es from the bi­og­raphi­es of Wes­tern le­aders and well-known pe­op­le.

Ins­truc­tors:

As­sel Sha­imu­rat

As­sel is a Sa­les and Mar­ke­ting Spe­ci­alist with mo­re than 10 years of ex­pe­ri­en­ce in the in­terna­ti­onal tra­de and in­vest­ment pro­jects (Inf­ras­truc­tu­re & Auto­moti­ve, Te­lecom & Ag­ri­cul­tu­re). She is an alum­na of US De­part­ment of Sta­te FSA UG­RAD prog­ram at Ma­ryvil­le Col­le­ge, Ten­nessee.

Ele­na No­rakid­ze

Ele­na is a Com­mu­nica­ti­ons and PR Spe­ci­alist who wor­ked for va­ri­ous in­terna­ti­onal or­ga­niza­ti­ons li­ke US Pe­ace Corps, Ame­rican Co­un­cils for In­terna­ti­onal Edu­cati­on, EF, UN Po­pula­ti­on Fund and ma­ny ot­hers. She ob­ta­ined her Mas­ter of Sci­en­ce deg­ree in So­ci­al Work from Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty (USA) and her Ba­chelor deg­ree in Ka­zakh­stan with a ma­jor in Edu­cati­on. Flu­ent in Spa­nish, Eng­lish, Rus­si­an and Ge­or­gi­an Ele­na has va­ri­ous hob­bi­es li­ke pho­tog­raphy, hand-ma­de pro­duc­ti­on, pa­in­ting and sports.

Anar Umur­za­kova

Anar is a Pro­ject Ma­nage­ment ex­pert ex­pe­ri­en­ced in IT, Mar­ke­ting and Risk ma­nage­ment in ro­les of func­ti­onal le­ad, sys­tems and bu­siness ana­lyst (Hol­der of PMP sin­ce 2009 and PRIN­CE2 Prac­ti­ti­oner sin­ce 2010). She is a gra­du­ate of Ge­or­ge Wa­shing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty with Mas­ter of Sci­en­ce deg­ree in Pro­ject Ma­nage­ment. Her vast work ex­pe­ri­en­ce inc­lu­des such emp­lo­yment at such or­ga­niza­ti­ons and com­pa­ni­es as the World Bank, Bri­tish-Ame­rican To­bac­co, Ame­rican Co­un­cils, IREX and Ka­zakh-Bri­tish Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty (GO Pro­ject Ma­nage­ment).

SYL­LA­BUS

Pre­re­qui­si­tes: A stu­dent ta­king this co­ur­se is ex­pec­ted to ha­ve an in­te­rest or hu­man cu­ri­osi­ty in the world of bu­siness and ove­rall two-three years of Eng­lish le­ar­ning (equi­valent to Pre-In­terme­di­ate, In­terme­di­ate or Up­per In­terme­di­ate le­vels of class­ro­om stu­di­es).

Ob­jec­ti­ve: A stu­dent ta­king this co­ur­se will be ex­pec­ted af­ter comp­le­ti­on to ha­ve the abi­li­ty to talk and dis­cuss six­te­en to­pics from glo­bal bu­siness such as Fi­nan­ce, In­ternet, Fo­od, Bran­ding, and Net­working. A stu­dent will be ab­le to use a vo­cabu­lary of 1500 words or mo­re to kick off a con­versa­ti­on or com­mu­nica­te his as­so­ci­ated ide­as. The stu­dent sho­uld be ab­le to pro­du­ce work with ve­ry few mis­ta­kes in eit­her spel­ling, gram­mar, or for­mat (ci­ta­ti­ons, etc.).