TOEIC

Hello all,

Big news, JET English College has recently been approved as an official TOEIC Public Testing Centre. This means that as well as teaching with the Callan Method we are also able to conduct the hugely popular TOEIC Test. This test is internationally recognised by many businesses and considered when people apply for a job where their English skills matter.

Many people use their year out in Australia for the purpose of developing their English, so that when they return to their own country they may be able to get a better job or improve their career. With the TOEIC test they can show employers their English level exactly.

To coincide with this JEC is also starting a TOEIC course to prepare candidates for the examination, these courses will run for two weeks prior to the exam and will prepare the students to take the TOEIC test.

The test dates and the course dates are as follows;

Test Dates / 18:00-20:00 TOEIC Course Dates / 18:00-20:00
17 April (Fri) 2 April (Thu) – 16 April (Thu)
15 May (Fri) 4 May (Mon) – 14 May (Thu)
12 June (Fri) 28 May (Thu) – 11 June (Thu)
10 July (Fri) 29 June (Mon) – 9 July (Thu)
7 August (Fri) 27 July (Mon) – 6 August (Thu)
4 September (Fri) 24 August (Mon) – 3 September (Thu)
2 October (Fri) 21 September (Mon) – 1 October (Thu)
27 November (Fri) 16 November (Mon) – 26 November (Thu)
18 December (Fri) 7 December (Mon) – 17 December (Thu)

Please note that some of the courses start on a Thursday intead of the normal Monday, this is because of the public holidays in NSW.

More than five million people take the TOEIC test each year, either for business purposes, or even just to find out how well their English is progressing. JEC is happy to be able to present this test.

Because we are a public test centre it is not only our students who are able to take the test here, but anyone who wants to do it.

To celebrate the launch we are running a number of special offers for the TOEIC course and the Test so please contact us on (02) 92640477) or info@jetenglish.com for more information.

The staff and teachers of JET English College look forward to helping people to get closer to their goal of learning English.

Take care everybody

John

Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year

Hello everyone, and I hope you all had a great Christmas.

Christmas in Sydney was hot and beautiful beach weather, and since then it has just got hotter. I have just come back into the office from the park where I sat sunbathing while eating my lunch.

JEC opened yesterday after being closed for two weeks over the holiday period so all of our teachers have come back refreshed and ready to go.

We had a party on the last day of term at the St James hotel before we all went our separate ways for the holiday.

It was also a good opportunity for us to get to know some of our new teachers a little better. They started teaching the Callan Method with us shortly before Christmas. It was good to see them out and to have the chance for us to have a drink with them.

It also gave us a chance for us to say goodbye to Chris Gysi who left us to go travelling and teaching around the world.

Chris was always a lot of fun, both in and out of the classroom and we are sorry to see him go and hope he has every success in the future.

I will give you a little bit more information about our new teachers the next time I write this blog.

In the meanwhile, from al of us here at JET English College, we wish you all the best for the new and hope that you are enjoying yourselves; wherever you are in the world.

John

Hello everyone,


Here we are nearly at the end of another year at JET English College.


It has been a good year and we have seen a lot of students and teachers come and go, but most importantly we have taught many people English using the Callan Method and helped them to improve their English, and enjoy their time in Sydney.


We have been busy and introduced the JEC business course that has been very useful to our students. This course can be done in the evening or night classes and is useful for people who are speaking English in a business environment, or just those who want to improve their understanding for more general purposes.


I spoke to Masaki about the business course when he finished it to ask him about what he thought of the course and this is what he had to say.


"I really enjoyed the business course because I learned a lot of idioms and language to make my life here easier. It was very intense, and it was a lot to do in five weeks, I wanted to study it for longer.


The language that I learned was very useful for my resume and also for finding a job. I thought that the course would be good for business, but I was surprised that it was so useful for my everyday life.





Now Masaki has finished with us we wish him all the best for the future.
I hope that all our students, old and new have a great Christmas wherever they are now.
Take care
John

New Teachers at JEC

Hello everybody.

I hope you are all well and happy.

We have been busy here and I think we are all looking forward to the weather warming up in Australia. It has been a cold winter, but now it is spring and it should start to get nicer soon.

A lot of us have been ill recently with colds so we definitely think that it is time for a change.

We have recently taken on several new teachers to help with the increased number of students.

As usual, Emma came up from Adelaide to train the new teachers and to teach them everything they needed to know about teaching with the Callan Method.

For the new teachers it is a very difficult time because there is a lot to learn very quickly and they have to work very hard to get ready to go into the classroom.

I remember when I started teaching the Callan Method that I was very nervous, but I was lucky because the students were very nice. It does not take long to become comfortable in the classroom and then you can relax a bit and enjoy teaching. There is still a lot to think about with all of the different students with different pronunciation problems, but it becomes a lot more natural.

Our teachers try to make teaching look easy, but there is a lot more to teaching than most realise. We want our students to just concentrate on learning.

Here are our new teachers, our current students know them well and they are enjoying their lessons

(from Left) Lisa S, Larissa, Chris, Ben, Anastasia and Lisa W

As always I hope that you are all well and happy, wherever in the world you are.

Take care

John

Back again

Hi there everyone. I made it back from my holiday in one piece.

My wife and I had a lovely day for our wedding in England, the sky was clear and it was very warm. We had about 90 guests many of whom travelled from countries other than England. The wedding took place in a very old church in a small village called Heighington in the north of England. The church was built before the Norman invasion in 1066 so it was a beautiful place with a lot of history.

There were no problems with the wedding, my wife looked great in her dress, which was quite spectacular. I was wearing the full morning suit as is traditional.

After the wedding we went by Rolls Royce to Redworth Hall for the reception. This was a 14 century country house and again it was perfect for the day.

After the wedding we went to Thailand on honeymoon. We stayed in Bankok for 4 days and then had a week in Phuket. Thailand was nice and very hot and we got to see elephants, but we spent most of our time relaxing and enjoying ourselves by the pool with cocktails.

When we got back to Australia we had a shock because it was so cold!!!

It is good to be home to see all of our friends who were not able to come for the wedding.

At JEC everything went well while I was away, before I went we took on some new teachers who have been busy teaching the Callan Method and they are doing very well. In my next blog I will introduce them to you.

We have also started our new JEC Business English course. This started at the beginning of August and is very popular with the students that are studying it. They find it challenging but enjoyable and they think that they are learning a lot. We hope that this course will become as successful as our Callan Method courses.

As always I hope that all our old students around the world are happy and that they are still speaking English as much as they can.

Take care until next time

John

John is going on holiday

Hello everybody,

Today is my last day at JET English College before I go back to the U.K to get married. I fly out tomorrow afternoon.

Today I was surprised by the staff here at JET, The lights went off, wedding music started playing and I got covered in tinsel!!!!!

The teachers and office staff had prepared a card for me and they had bought me some presents. The first present was some lottery tickets so I could start of my married life with money, but, unfortunately they were not winners!

They also got me a really nice digital photo frame for me to put the photos of our wedding day in. I have been wanting one for a long time and I think it will be perfect for all of the pictures of our big day.

It was a lovely surprise and I am sorry that all my friends here will not be able to come to the wedding. I will miss them there because I would like to share this day with them.

I will be returning to JEC in August after a honeymoon in Thailand and ready to begin my new life as a husband.

Many of you have met Karen and you know that I think she is the best thing that has ever happened to me. When I return I will post some photos of our day on this blog

Also some big news for JEC, we are introducing a new business English course. We have been developing this over the last few months and now we are ready to start teaching it. It is a course that teaches business language in a way that makes it easily understood.

We are very excited about this as it is new and different for us, and we hope that it will be as successful as our Callan Method courses. Our goal is to teach English quickly and effectively and this new course will do just that.

Take care everybody and I will update this when I return.

John

Love is in the air!

Congratulations Manabu and Rieko

I was very happy recently to learn that two of our old students have got married.

Manabu and Rieko met while they were both studying with the Callan Method at JET English College. After they went back to Japan they married.

All of our staff and teachers who remember them as students were very happy to hear the news, and we are glad to have been part of them meeting.

I am very pleased to know that they are both so happy and wish them every happiness in the future.

As I write this I am preparing to get married myself so I can understand what a big step it is and I hope that they will be happy forever.

Good luck.