RLB-TC Removing the Linguistic Barriers in English Training Course

Target group: youth workers, people working in NGOs, assocations, local authorities or govenrnmental services involved in the Youth in Action programme, who feel that their lack or weakness of practice of the English language is a barrier: - in their effort to network and build partnerships or to present and explain the reality of their organization and their work; - to prepare efficiently a project with their partners; - to express clearly their objectives, aims, wishes... WARNING!! This training course is NOT an English course and is NOT designed for absolute beginners in English or for people with an advanced level of English wishing to improve it. THE TARGET GROUP OF THIS TC IS PEOPLE AT LEVELS A1 and A2, in reference to the assessment grid of the “European common framework of languages". Group size: 24 participants (half of them from Spain) from different European countries. Programme elements: - concrete exercises related to international youth work (for example: presentation of your organization, elaboration of a Youth Exchange programme, phone calls with a partner, etc.); - knowledge and vocabulary of the Youth in Action programme; - basic grammar and general vocabulary to survive in an English-speaking environment; - exercises and simulation games on intercultural teamwork. Methods: - Focus on speaking English; - short and varied exercises; - both individual work and small groups. Trainers: - Patty KEY: an English teacher, coming from Canada and living in Great Britain, specialised in teaching English to non-native speakers. - Juan RATTO-NIELSEN: trainer from Spain specialised in intercultural learning. Preference will be given to candidates involved in a project under the Youth in Action programme who rapidly need to speak Englsih for implementing that activity.