Preparing your Children for English Oral

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Event description

Many children can read well. But an English Oral exam in Singapore is about more than reading. It’s about how comfortable the child is with using English in conversations and thinking on their feet. It is, in fact, easy to spot a child who is comfortable with the spoken language by the way the child speaks. It also means it’s easy to spot one who isn’t comfortable. This can have significant consequences when the child starts to build a career. This talk highlights key speech habits children can work on with their parents at home to do well in an English oral exam. 

About the Speaker

Joseph spent 36 years at Standard Chartered Bank before leaving in 2015. In his role as Director, he helmed the global sales proposal management team and spearheaded the bank’s digital learning initiative as curriculum developer and training consultant. Joseph is also one of only a handful of Phonetics coaches in Singapore. In 2017, he authored the children’s book series I’m So Ready For Life and in 2022, he developed The FOSTER Method of Selling along with a sales app called Delapitch.