Study English in Ireland
While some schools are located within stone’s throw of the Atlantic, other language schools are located in the countryside. There is one English language school in Sligo for example which offers tours to their students around the county – from the 4,000 year old Carrowmore tombs to the serene waters of Glencar Lake where you can fish to your heart’s content. In Sligo, you will also encounter one of W.B. Yeats’ inspirations in his poem, the Lough Gill. A typical language school in Ireland has a library, an audio visual room and a computer room. Libraries usually have an extensive collection of Irish literature and poetry while audio visual rooms have individual headphone sets connected to each visiting student where audio files about the English language are usually expounded.
Teachers in these English language schools in Ireland usually have M.A. degrees with Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certification. The course itself covers all aspects of business English in both oral and written forms – communications, marketing, writing legal texts in English and how to conduct business meetings or negotiations. This is tremendously helpful especially if you’re a Parisian who’s got a permanent business in Ireland. One of the key elements in a crash course in business English is delving into the English contract law, components of a typical international agreement, commercial law and legal negotiation and tax law and legal presentation. For advanced English courses, some curricula suggest formal writing and literature to be included. To make studying Irish English even more fun, some schools alternate learning the language to that of an extra-curricular activity. Extra-curricular activities may be in the forms of a Gaelic cultural tour, speech or drama workshops, Irish dancing, multimedia presentations, photograph taking, cycling, canoeing, swimming and other sports and extreme activities like zip lining, basketball, table tennis and basketball.