L'anglais (document en anglais)

Introduction

Its is highly essential to know the language for communication. In general, the most popular language is English.

Nowadays, nobody can deny that learning English has become a good tool to know more about new cultures.

The english language is one way to establish our viewpoint. We can learn from others experience. We can check the theories of foreigners against our experience. We can reject the untenable and accept the tenable. We can also propagate our theories among the international audience and readers.

In addition to that, many companies require people to speak different languages fluently and perfectly.

Today, knowledge of English language has become the basic requirement in most of the professions.

Our school “HEM” is aware of the importance of English that is why in its academic background it enforces and implements us an intensive program in English for 6 weeks.

The objectives of this training are to help us improve our English level as the next generation of managers and leaders, and to help us to express ourselves clearly and fluently. The last but not the least objective is to have the ability to exchange ideas with native speakers.

I chose the British council first because it is a famous institution which has a big experience of education around the world and secondly because my English teacher recommended us to go to the British council, because all the students who had been there before us had improved their English.

My report is divided in four different chapters:

The first chapter contains two parts: the first part is about a presentation of the host institution, its history, its projects and the organisation. The second one is about the choice of the research project and the explanation of the choice itself, including the adopted methodology and support, as well as cultural activities and the presentation we did about different subject we have chosen. And the third chapter is about the site visits we had in Rabat. Finally, the last chapter sums up the whole experience and shows its impact on my personal development.

Chapter one

1) Presentation of the host institution

In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Foreign Office realised the need for an organisation responsible for the promotion of British culture, education, science and technology in other countries, along the lines of existing French, German and Italian cultural organisations. This led to the setting up of the 'British Committee for Relations with Other Countries' in 1934. The name was later changed to the 'British Council for Relations with Other Countries, and then shortened to the 'British Council.

Afterwards, during the Second World War, educational and cultural support to refugees and Allied service personnel were needed, so, at the government’s request, centres were set up in several cities in the UK to provide these two services. However, because of the war, the expansion of the “British council” centres overseas declined, followed by a period of considerable growth, particularly with the development and evolution of internet-based telecommunications and other electronic forms of communication, which boosted the spreading speed of anything related to “British Council”; the information as well as the creation of multiple online services, the latter being a revolutionary breakthrough that permitted opening new horizons that could not even have been dreaming of before. Thanks to these new possibilities, the supporting of the students has become much faster and efficient.

The founder of the “British Council” is Sir Reginald Leeper, a man who entered the British Foreign Office in 1920 and joined, after nine years, the News department being in charge for information work overseas. Through his hard work, he convinced his British Foreign colleagues to fund him, and since then, he kept promoting the institution across thirty different countries with donations and lecture tours

Sir Reginald Leeper

2) Organisation and progress of the courses

2-1) Course overview:

The curriculum consisted of general English courses every morning 5 days a week, including language structure and grammar .

We were always involved in Team work in the morning, while in the evening we worked with our project group on the project and we wrote a report every week .

During the course we did a lot of exercises based on Listening and also a lot of Spoken English. All the teachers were British and they didn’t speak another language, so we were obliged to communicate just English.

2-2) Schedule:

HEM made an agreement with the British council to train its second year students for a period of six weeks. Thus, the British Council has conceived a special program, which is appropriate HEM student’s specific needs and expectations.

This immersion course included:

• 90 hours of intensive English

• 30 hours professional skills courses : presentations skills and report writing

• 3 company Visits

• A project work and report supervised by British Council

The major objective of these intensive courses at the British council was to improve our business English. For this, we had an organized time table and a structured program.

We had courses from Monday to Friday, except Friday afternoon which was free. In fact, in the mornings, we had intensive General and Business English courses from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm with half an hour break from 10:30 pm to 11:00, plus one hour to have lunch.

In the afternoons, we were with our teams working on the project that we present at the end of the immersion training.

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