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Welcome!
We are delighted to welcome our new client Alcón Cusí, a highly prestigious pharmaceutical company. Our Portuguese and Catalan trainers will be teaching in-company by the sea in El Masnou as of April 2008.
We hope this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration for both Alcón Cusí and ICL.
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Did you know that there are more than 6000 languages in the world?
The Government of Catalonia has recently set up Casa de les llengües (The House of Languages), an institution which promotes languages as a vehicle of communication and the recognition of linguistic diversity and multilingualism. One of its members is the famous Welsh linguist David Crystal, who is the President of the International Scientific Committee of the institution. Crystal is the author of two highly renowned Cambridge University encyclopaedias, and in celebration of the International Year of Languages, he has spoken about multilingualism and intercultural dialogue at various conferences.
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More information about the services offered by Casa de les llengües can be found at www.linguamon.cat. Included is a directory of language training centres, with In Company Languages featuring in the list. There are also various different multilingual features and glossaries that guarantee hours of fascinating topics to browse.
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Learning by doing
With the Spanish general elections fast approaching, two ICL teachers decided to spice up their English lessons by involving their students in a political debate.
With one class taking the part of the socialist party and the other the populists, battle commenced on Tuesday morning. Each student had prepared a policy point and gave themselves an appropriate identity - with name tag to boot. What followed was a good-tempered, heated debate lasting an hour and a half with everyone taking part. The whole event was a great success, with teachers leaving feeling proud of their students and students leaving feeling proud of their newly acquired English debating skills. Credit must be given to the ICL teachers who led the whole affair with skill and flair; and to all the students who meticulously prepared their parts...To be continued...
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Looking Back & Forward
A Year to Remember
The year 2007 was a busy but rewarding one for ICL. With several new clients, changes in members of staff and a large intake of new teachers, the year was filled with plenty of exciting projects, encounters and challenges.
New Staff and Teachers
We said goodbye to Louise Meadley, one of our English Department coordinators, who has moved on to translation work and starting a family. Staff members who joined us in 2007 are Kathy in administration and Reetta Savolainen in the English Department, and we welcomed 27 new teachers.
Welcome to our new clients
A very warm welcome to our new clients Agbar Incendios, Caifor, Klimacal, Comisión Europea, Patronat Catalunya-Món, and to all the new students in Generalitat de Catalunya and Roca Sanitarios who joined us in 2007. We are also delighted that Euroservices Bayer added French to their language training programme with ICL. We would also like to extend our congratulations to our students in Aset who passed their PET and BEC examinations, and to those in “la Caixa” on passing the Cambridge First Certificate.
A special thank you to all our clients for the year 2007 and our best wishes for 2008!
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START OF ACADEMIC YEAR
The ICL 07/08 academic year was already underway in August with the students from ASET (Asociación Hispano-Alemana de Enseñanzas Técnicas). This Business School employs a dual teaching method of theory and in-company work experience and has entrusted its English programme to ICL for many years. The excellent results that have been achieved both in Cambridge exams (BEC) and in the FD Südwestfalen show the high level of professionalism of the students and our teaching alike.
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ICL Top of the Class!
All of us here at ICL are delighted with the results of our survey of the opinions of our students for the 2006-7 course. Once again we have managed to maintain the upward trend in overall levels of student satisfaction.
The ICL co-ordinators visit all the classes during the course and speak to each student individually giving them an opportunity to give us their feedback on the course. The students complete a questionnaire about their course during the visit, they are asked to evaluate the teacher and teaching methods, the course material as well as the administrative aspects of the course.
As we look forward to the 2007-8 course we are analysing the results of our student feedback in order to continue offering the best service possible.
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Barrio Gotico with an Irish Accent
ICL students joined our Irish tour guide Paddy on a walking tour of the Barrio Gotico in the heart of Barcelona – all in English, of course. The students were keen to contribute to the tour by exchanging anecdotes and different versions of local legends such as Saint Eulalia. They were also invited to visit an old-fashioned herboristería before marvelling at the various architectural styles and monuments hidden in the heart of the old city. The students all agreed that it was an evening well-spent.
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“Life on a bike!”
Darina, an ex ICL teacher popped in to see us recently to tell us all about her amazing two year trip around the world, ON A BIKE!! She´s travelled all around Europe, South and Central America and is on her way back to Switzerland, via Ireland of course. more
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Welcome!
We would like to give a warm welcome to our new client RECABE S.L (Representación Benetton Cataluña)
BENVENUTE ragazze!!! Siamo convinti che imparerete molto italiano in questo 2007.
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ICL recognised by Cambridge University
We are pleased to announce that ICL has been awarded the “Exam Preparation” certificate by Cambridge University. This is given to those language centres that have demonstrated their competence in preparing students for the Cambridge exams such as First Certificate and BEC (Business English Certificate). If you are a student of ICL and interested in taking one of the Cambridge exams please get in touch with us and we will arrange everything for you.
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NEW COURSE INAUGURATED!
The ICL 2006-07 Course inauguration was held on Friday 27th October in La Caixa’s new Training Centre.
10 different nationalities were represented among the teaching staff who attended. It was a good opportunity to learn first-hand about all the new resources available to them this year as well as practice their language skills!
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“DON’T TELL ME, SHOW ME”
This phrase of our director Monica Baumgartner has been chosen as phrase of the month in the emotive company - Strategic Management of the Motivation. more
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Bilingual books collection
The newspaper " La Vanguardia" supports us in our task of teaching the English language offering an exclusive collection of bilingual books (English / Castilian) more
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"El País"-English Version
Our students receive the news of the day in English with the English edition of "El Pais" more
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