Business Correspondence

In this two-day workshop, participants learn to organize data, write outlines, write various types of business-related correspondence, and respond to letters, memos, and electronic correspondence, both formal and informal. Participants target their writing to a specific purpose and audience and learn to apply a clear and concise business writing style, and to use appropriate technological tools for their work.

Report Writing

In this two-day workshop, participants learn to organize data, write outlines, and write various types of business reports, both formal and informal. Participants target their report writing to a specific purpose and audience and learn to apply a clear and concise business writing style, and to use appropriate technological tools for their work.

Communication for Success

In this two-day workshop, participants learn how to assess their communication styles and how to affirm and understand different personalities and preferences. The course increases interpersonal effectiveness through demonstrating the impacts of different communication styles.

Conflict Management

General English

The General English course focuses on accuracy and fluency with an integrated skills and strategy-based curriculum that aims at developing the four language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course also focuses on improving pronunciation and increasing vocabulary. Participants are placed in one of the following stages based on their placement test results: beginner, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, and pre-advanced. To ensure consistency of instruction, one series is used for each stage. Each book is covered in three consecutive levels. Certificates are awarded at the successful completion of each stage.

Conversation

AMIDEAST conversation courses are divided into four levels.  The training focuses on a variety of everyday essential topics to ultimately improve participant fluency, accuracy and ability to communicate. The conversation courses give the participants the extra practice they need to become fluent. The main idea of the conversation course at AMIDEAST is to focus on the students' ability to express themselves in everyday situations. Therefore, students work on pronunciation, vocabulary and idioms (in the advanced level) to further develop their conversational skills. They also receive individualized feedback on grammar and pronunciation errors. Class activities include: group discussions, role plays, pronunciation, and games.  

Business English

The David Mize Scholarship program supports undergraduate students for four years of study at top U.S. universities. The value of the award is up to $50,000 US Dollars per year and requires that awardees secure additional outside financial support.
This merit-based scholarship seeks well-rounded students with excellent grades, high test scores, robust extracurricular activities and demonstrate leadership qualities. The scholarship is named after David Mize, former AMIDEAST/Egypt Country Director, in recognition of his leadership in the field of international education.

Professional Skills Training

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 The TOEFL pre-iBT preparation course is an introductory test preparation course that focuses on the academic English component of the TOEFL exam at the intermediate level of language proficiency. The course also focuses on test taking strategies to improve performance on the TOEFL. The course introduces students to the TOEFL examination.  Instruction includes test-taking strategies, analysis of question types, vocabulary building strategies, grammar presentations, and listening strategies. The course emphasizes both language development and test taking strategies.