Online English ALIVE by GSD-Real-Time teaching, nod recorded classes!

Totally New and Unique: ENGLISH ALIVE!  

We do not sell video clips- we teach lessons alive!

We are glad to offer brand new online courses of English- real-time online distance learning! 

** The picture shows how distance learning-ENGLISH ALIVE functions. This amazing method puts you in the classroom at your home. :)

After three years of advanced methodology research amongst the existing models of delivering online learning, Britanicca School can offer you its unique and ultimate quality courses online. 

For more than 120 different courses of General English; Business; Vocational; Academic; ESP; Conversational and Skill courses; tailor-made and ESOL examination preparatory courses it is now possible to reach us wherever you are. We are beside you everywhere around the world- just one click away!

Namely, up to now, majority of the online courses in the internet market hardly can stand for that name. Generally, students purchase recorded classes of English, which allow almost no interaction between students and teachers.

 

You just sit in front of your computer and play again and again the episodes of different content, where very often there is no book to follow and many programs are not a whole course exp. you get lessons which do not form a certain level of knowledge (Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate etc.). You are not being tested, so you do not know where you learning starts neither where it ends, since there is no book to follow. Even worse, different “teaching approaches” claim to successfully deliver you knowledge of English without teaching grammar!

The teaching qualifications of numerous “experts” online remain unknown in their presentations. Some do give real-time instructions but actually they do not teach real lessons- it is either a plain, uninstructed conversation or introduction of frequent phrases of everyday speech. Great number of students is therefore left disappointed and disoriented after such online experience. 

Our model is practically home-school English, where every single aspect of learning is real: real-time classes, real qualified and trained teachers licensed to teach by GSD method,  real books and CEFR standards for courses, real lessons taught in blackboards with plenty of teaching and explanations.

 

Yet, every student gets unique training: your teacher will talk to you personally and correct your own difficulties while following the syllabus of the course, you will be able to ask additional explanation and state you dilemmas on the spot. 

In this way “English Alive” sets new parameters that not everyone is able to offer you in online learning:

• Real-time lessons, not recorded episodes- interaction with teacher even more than in the classroom

• Exclusive one-to-one courses or small, homogenous groups

• Systematical knowledge of English language offered in CEFR standardized courses and books

• Real lessons which include reading, writing, listening and speaking skills

• Teaching standard, correct English  with grammar, vocabulary, phrases and pronunciation

• Teacher adapts to your abilities, skills and type of learning- allowing questions and advising

• Super-intensive courses in a planned time-frame – everyday classes in your own fixed terms

• Just 4 to 6 weeks per level- guaranteed, visible and significant progress in learning

• Flexible enrolments all year long – all terms available (morning, noon, evening)

• Selected, fully trained and highly educated teachers, vocationally specialized as English teachers

• A unique and highly practical GSD method of learning for all the courses

• Basic IT knowledge for students- we provide clear and simple instructions

• We provide immediate technical support during the course

• No limitation in your needs: a rich offer of more than 120 English language courses

• Quality control and vocational supervision by Danijela Gajic, author of GSD method, Director of Studies ( MA Tesol, Oxford Brookes University)

• More than affordable prices for the highest given quality

• Different approach for different student`s background- advanced native Serbian speakers program  and  specialized  international students program (all nations possible)

• All ages included- from Young Learners ( aged from 6 years old) to Adult Students including absolute beginners

 For any further information and additional explanation, you can reach us by filling the contact form through www.britanicca.rs or dial us tax-free through Skype name “Britanicca online”. 

Give a better chance to your future- do not let previous online disappointments keep you away from a valuable experience of real online course with us! 

Phone number: +381 64 37 54 783

Skype name: britaniccaonline

An accelerated 20-day English course in the school of future-presentation held in Exeter, Great Britain at the annual IATEFL conference

                                                    An accelerated 20-day English course

                                                                    in the school of future

Prof. Danijela Gajic: Britanicca School of English, Belgrade, Serbia

Urges to accelerate English courses in the new millennium

Accelerated style of modern life urges intensive, accelerated methods. The course dynamics must answer desperate needs of students today to catch up with monstrous demands of globalisation – speak English or you finish!

Poster for the conference

   Have you ever watched two queues of people taking an escalator and plain stairs at the same time? This was the picture of comparison between a standard and an intensive course created in my mind. That scene decided my will to test the unknown approaches in my TESOL practice. Soon I established a chain of private schools working more than successfully five years now, with more than three thousand students, exclusively in short, intensive programmes!

What do we gain in twenty days?

Everything that can be applied in six months can be done in twenty days! Short courses do not cut on the content of a standard course book levelled up with the CEF scale. Starting from Elementary course taking twenty days, hour and a half every day from Monday to Friday, up to Advanced level in thirty days, a miracle can happen in your classrooms!

At the entrance of the Exeter University

   We fully rely on our brain`s capacities to score better in everyday classes, than in traditional six-month courses, where the time distance between classes makes the effect of Swiss cheese in students` minds! A human mind retains only 50% of the input after three days. Also, the starting enthusiasm and motivation are far better in shorter courses.  So, my students described accelerated courses as short, thrilling slides in aqua-parks and preferred this to `safe, but long and exhausting walk in the mountains`.


Who can take an accelerated course?

Talking to a collegue

In my practice, almost everyone with elementary knowledge of mother tongue can take a short course, but mainly teenagers, young adult and adult students. Only young learners have natural obstacles: comprehending abstract terms in language and too limited awareness of mother tongue grammar.

Accelerated, short, intensive courses – is there any difference in meaning?

In the birth certificate of first accelerated courses the parent`s names were Georgi Lozanov and Colin Rose. In time many practitioners made their own remixes of the original concept. Should we make a good cake, all three are to be well mixed in inseparable fusion.

Secret ingredients of the twenty - day cookery

Presenting at the annual IATEFL conference

Imagine a huge pot cooking `magic potion`  out of Michael Swan, Jeremy Harmer, Jim Scrivener, Mario Rinvolucri, Adrian Underhill, Adrian Tennant, Scott Thornbury, Martin Hewings, Keith Morrow, Jennifer Jenkins, Dave Allen and many other `yummy` IATEFL colleagues? Indeed, they are the brain food of a future English teacher, in intensive and normal courses. There should not be much difference in teacher`s qualities, both in short and normal courses. If the course is set up well, and the teacher is presenting clearly, logically, dedicated to student`s success - the results could be even better than in standard courses.  These are some great ingredients:
• Systematically use the mother tongue  (L1) to contrast English grammar (L2) leading from familiar to
unfamiliar structures
• Make strong visualisation -  use tables, charts, spider grams, cartoons on your whiteboard
• Consider humour and personalising as tools against  student`s frustrations

Jeremy Harmer and Danijela Gajic

• Raise motivation- create one in your classroom by listening to your students
• Plan word games to ease up the vocabulary chore- make it a favourite game of your students
• Keep grammar simple and clear,  as if  you are teaching children
• Nourish the four language skills through creative tasks – make your students proud of their every small achievement
• Weigh the  home works you give- they should teach principles, not mechanical repetition in large portions
• Maintain discipline in class, that is half the job we do- by letting your students think they lead, engaging them fully - consult contemporary Andragogy at all times
• Choose a good course book, make a good use of it – but keep in mind it is not the Bible
• Remember that teachers are not surgeons, but rather nurses delivering lots of babies!
• Insist on the grammar skeleton only in order to achieve the course objectives- everything else can be adjusted to your students
• In case of despair use hypnosis (This rule is a joke!)

In conclusion
There are still many unbelievers, asking to stick a finger into it, but think of our children going to school every day, learning dozen of subjects eight hours a day, ten months every year- and they make it!