PCTO IN ENGLISH
Language Junction, through this formative orientation pathway, aims above all to help students choose their own direction in a period that offers few certainties, guiding them to elaborate decisions in a flexible context, stimulating their research, creating situations that reflect their interests, their potential and their desires.
We have created an effective training proposal specifically for DAD that gives everyone the tools to study English, work on orientation and social interaction - even if at a distance. The methodology applied includes individual interviews, exploration of interests/difficulties in order to build a tailor-made course with a view to constant interaction with others through role playing/games in an interactive entertainment scenario.
Teaching English with the student/adolescent in mind has always been Language Junction's prerogative, we like to offer defined objectives that deliver rewarding and concrete results.
Building English courses for high schools together
Our English courses for schools aim to provide tangible and immediately applicable language tools. Language Junction has designed a training course that can be adapted to all school courses and can also be tailored to a specific subject, in order to improve the knowledge and use of the English language, which is fundamental for the development of any study and/or professional path.
English courses for PCTO schools (Ex Alternanza Scuola Lavoro)
The route has the following objectives:
- supplement to the Institute's language training offer, aimed at achieving level B1 to C2/Cambridge certification.
The levels obtained are recognised by the Ministry of Education:
- orientation programme with seminars and workshops with the participation of managers and representatives of the world of work;
- acquisition of credits in the three-year course (90 hours in the three-year high school course, 150 hours in technical institutes and 180 hours in vocational institutes).
Entrytest to identify the initial level, followed by periodic tests to monitor progress throughout the year.
The cross-curricular pathway is divided into 5 modules, all of which are run by mother-tongue teachers and teaching staff.
Drafting of the International Curriculum Vitae / Europass, preparation for job interviews
In compliance with current regulations, lessons will be held online or in class. It provides all the necessary elements aimed at achieving the technical skills and linguistic register for the drafting of the international curriculum vitae and the consequent learning of the curriculum glossary relevant to the specific address. With the final draft of the personalised cover letter in English, the student will have the necessary basis to be able to face a job interview in English. To complete the module, role-play simulations of job interviews will be carried out for each specific subject.
6 hours in 4 meetings of 1.5 hours each:
- specific glossary declined to school address;
- CV editing: personal details, summary or personal statement, work experience, education, skills and ability;
- preparation and simulation of job interviews in English.
A 6-hour ASL certificate is awarded for attending the entire module.
Vocational guidance
In compliance with current regulations, lessons will be conducted online or in class. It is focused on alternative proposals on vocational orientation, paying particular attention to the personal interests of each student, in order to deepen and know or discover their inclinations in the field of work feasible for their professional future. The student will receive an orientation scenario on the complexity of the choice related to professional development.
9 hours in 6 meetings of 1.5 hours each:
- Preliminary interviews and individual information compilation (bilingual in Italian and English) in order to define inclinations, areas of interest and character predispositions,
- for each meeting:
- 30' presentation by top managers/senior consultants on specific topics such as:
- youth entrepreneurship and starting your own business
- sustainability
- young people's access to the world of work
- advertising and marketing
- specific themes harmonised with the Institute's educational offer;
- 1-hour workshop with a native English-speaking teacher:
- comprehension tests,
- group discussion and development of the topic.
- 30' presentation by top managers/senior consultants on specific topics such as:
A 9-hour ASL certificate is awarded for attending the entire module.
Personalised one-to-one intensive online course - CAMBRIDGE certification
Depending on the level of competence to be reached (B1- B2 - C1 or C2), the course can have a personalised duration and planning, based on the student's needs and the starting level of competence, defined with an initial linguistic assessment through an oral and written test. The preparation course consists of a minimum of 5 lessons and a maximum of 15 lessons of one and a half hours each. Please find attached the descriptive table of international/Cambridge levels.
The Cambridge English examinations are recognised by higher education institutions as credits for raising the school average for admission to the baccalaureate examination.
Intensive course and workshop - one week study stay
One-week workshop stays as part of transversal and orientation paths, coherent and integrated with the Institute's educational offer.
Incompliance with the restrictions due to Covid19, the stay takes place in Italy in several regions of renowned cultural and professional interest, (we also commit ourselves to supporting Italian accommodation facilities), taking into account the possible permanence of restrictions limiting interregional travel.
Full board.
20-hour language course, language teaching aimed at learning the professional language for specific address.
The course is mainly based on improving linguistic fluency, communication skills, listening skills, reading and text comprehension. Teaching techniques based on role-play / (staging of situational contexts in order to refine linguistic interactions in various social, everyday and professional contexts).
The content of the lessons, in accordance with the requirements of the Institute, includes different topics such as: marketing and communications, journalism, graphics and communications, pedagogy, budgeting, English literature and also more general topics common to different addresses.
Internships and afternoon workshops on topics related to:
- drafting of CVs and cover letters by specific address
- interview management and interviews as a complement to MODULE 1 & 2
- communication techniques in the working environment
- seminars and conferences held by top managers of companies, professionals and consultants
- related workshops.
An ASL certificate of 40 hours is awarded for attending the entire module.
Personalised supplementary training, summer camps, study stays
The course can be complemented with the following additional modules, designed and planned according to specific individual needs in a flexible, situation-based context that helps open horizons by working on decision-making.
- English International Summer Camp: stays abroad in the UK, Ireland, Malta and the USA.
- Stays abroad and/or individual intensive English summer camps, from 1 to 5 weeks.