BurlingtonEnglish

General Introduction

What is BurlingtonEnglish?
BurlingtonEnglish is a unique program that uses a blended approach to learning English by combining
Online Interactive Study with Face-to-Face Lessons. Students acquire essential language skills through
listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Target Group: Adults and young adults
BurlingtonEnglish offers a Core Program for general English and a broad range of Career Extensions
and Advanced Extensions.
BurlingtonEnglish Core Program courses are structured, taking students from beginner to intermediate
level. They engage students in conversations about everyday topics while developing and enhancing their
language skills.
BurlingtonEnglish Career Extensions and Advanced Extensions can be used by people in training for
specific professions, people currently working professionally in those fields, or by those interested in
exploring the world of a specific profession. These courses can be used as stand-alone training or as an
integrated part of a larger professional training course.

The BurlingtonEnglish Blend

The BurlingtonEnglish Blend uses both online and face-to-face delivery modes, so that different aspects
of language can be presented, practiced and produced in the ways most facilitative to learning.
The Online Interactive Study is designed to be used independently and is geared to the highest level
of individualization, both in pace and level. Students are provided with individual learning activities,
including scenes and slideshows, listen and record activities, interactive dialogues, word games,
dictionary activities, check yourself, and progress reports. Ample listening texts and speaking practice
are embedded in the online lessons, and immediate feedback and answer-judging are provided for
activities. Students can repeat activities as often as desired, helping them to reach automaticity in their
use of language. The BurlingtonEnglish SpeechTrainer provides individual training, which includes
error assessment, articulation training, minimal pairs differentiation, sound discrimination, and progress
assessment. Make sure that your students are aware of the online help that is available to them, in the
form of HelpSpots and translations.
The Face-to-Face Lessons provide students with opportunities to do things that can better be done when
facilitated by the teacher, who can provide explanation and elucidation. In addition, students can practice
true speaking in a natural environment, enabling them to negotiate meaning successfully. Teachers are
provided with outlines of teaching tips for face-to-face activities, including pair work, role-play, guided
writing, grammar worksheets, vocabulary games, dictations and tests. Teachers can select the ideas that
are most suitable for their classes, depending on the level, size and interest of the group. The activities can
be used as an introduction, reinforcement, or review of the language taught in the online modules.

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BurlingtonEnglish

General Introduction

The way you blend the two parts the Online Interactive Study and the Face-to-Face Lessons depends
on how often you meet with your students and the number of students in your class, as well as their age,
background, and level of proficiency.
Face-to-Face Lessons should include the following:
1. A warm-up activity, which practices the vocabulary presented in the Situations or Module covered.
This will give the teacher the opportunity to correct any pronunciation or comprehension problems.
The activities can be used for presentation, practice, review or summary of the target language.
2. A review of questions or problems the students encountered in their online sessions. These may
include questions about grammar. For the Extensions, look at the grammar links suggested for
the Module in each Overview. For the Core Program courses, refer to the Teachers Notes for the
grammar points in question.
3. Activities from the Teachers Notes to activate the class. The teacher can choose from any of the
available activities.
4. An introduction to the next part of the program.
We hope you find the Teachers Material helpful, and have a successful experience teaching English with
BurlingtonEnglish.

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