These courses will help you do your job more quickly and more
easily. You will learn how to give good service to customers and
write clearly in English. You will be a more useful member of your
team and get the results you want.
You will enjoy ‘active-learning’ with
people just like you. Each lesson will help you:
• be more confident in using English
• turn on English that you may not have used for a long time
• learn useful techniques which make emails and telephone calls more
effective
• improve your grammar and vocabulary so that you can handle more
workplace situations.
Courses in spoken English help you to:
• use the telephone well
• give good customer service
•
describe your company’s products and services
• handle problems well
• build relationships in workplace and social situations
• present your ideas in meetings and discussions
• give short presentations.
Courses in written English help you to:
• think about who you are writing to and what they need from you
• decide which information to include and which order to give it
in
• make the most important information easy to find by your reader
• use clear language with fewer grammar errors
• write emails and letters, short reports, proposals, and minutes
• get the results you want.
When you study at CPBE your language and skills will last for
a long time. Why? Well, there are two reasons for this:
1. You will do things in the lessons which are similar to the things
you need to do at work. This means that you will be able to use
your new skills at work immediately.
2. You will also be able to continue using our service after your
course has finished. This means that you won’t forget what
you learn!
To us, quality of teaching is everything. We are a leading centre
for teacher training and we all have post-graduate qualifications
in language training.
Your trainer will:
• be a native speaker or have native speaker proficiency
• have Hong Kong training experience
• have a professional or business background
• give you lots of feedback and suggestions of ways you can improve
your English.
CPBE offers classes on the Hung Hom and Hung Hom Bay campuses and will also offer courses at the new West Kowloon campus in 2008.
You can claim from the Continuing Education Fund (CEF) for CPBE
courses. For more information:
• visit the CEF website: http://www.info.gov.hk/sfaa/cef
• telephone their office: 3142 2277
If you attend 80% of your course, you will receive a Hong Kong
Polytechnic University Certificate of Attendance.
I have some more questions. What should I do?
Click on FAQ for practical information
Call CPBE on: 3400 2732 / 2733 / 2734 OR
Contact us by email: English.CPBE@polyu.edu.hk