GBC

To succeed in speaking tests, you need to make sure you begin and end your answers well. We'll teach you some simple strategies to do this with confidence. 

G.B.C. interviews will often cover the topic of your job. Try to describe your working life using analogies, while adding detail about your job. In this lesson we will cover your you, your job, your company and what they do. Try to make your answers accurate and as descriptive as possible, and to talk about the day to day details as well as an overall description of your working life.

The GBC test will usually start with some warm-up questions about you and your life. You'll need to talk about your travel experiences, where you grew up and your own personality. In this lesson, you will practice GBC-style questions about you and your life, so you can get your test off to the best possible start.

Our first strategy lesson is about interview tests in general. We'll talk about what they are for. This will help you avoid the biggest mistake that people make in interview tests.

This lesson will focus on a very challenging part of English pronunciation, /l/ and /r/. These sounds take time and energy to perfect. If you'd like to study pronunciation more deeply, please try the Pronunciation In Use textbook.

This lesson is aimed at quickly improving pronunciation. It will focus on three sounds that don't appear in the Japanese alphabet, but most people can start to make them relatively quickly.

In this lesson we'll discuss nature and traditions, and decide what role they should play in logical decision making.

Using sound logic is vital for advanced communication. It will also help you answer questions clearly in meetings, presentations and conversation, as well as get better scores on logical aspects of English speaking tests. This lesson is about how to use data.

Check your score sheet and you will find two of your delivery scores in G.B.C. relate directly to confidence and enthusiasm (specifically nervousness and animation/enthusiasm). Furthermore, vocal clarity and eye contact are signs that you are confident and passionate about what you are talking about. Let's work on those in this class.

Using sound logic is vital for advanced communication. It can help to understand and answer questions clearly in meetings, conversation or English tests. This lesson is about cause and effect, compared with correlation.

Nearly 15% of your G.B.C. score is for fluency. Fluency is something that will develop over time, but there are some ways you can fake it! This lesson will show you how.

When you are speaking English, naturally you need to think and pause. In the last lesson, we talked about non-word sounds. G.B.C. penalizes your use of non-word sounds. So when you need to think, or you are having trouble expressing yourself, what should you do? Fill the pauses naturally. This lesson will teach you how.

This is one of the easiest ways to increase your G.B.C. score. You get penalised for using "non-word sounds". This means saying things like "um" and "ah". All you have to do is stop saying "um" and "ah", but it can be more difficult than you realise. We'll train you in this lesson to be more aware of yourself when you speak.

Gestures and body language are an important component of non-verbal communication. We're going to do a quick lesson on gestures, so that you can be more engaging when you speak. You'll need video for this one!

A lot of the questions you will get in the G.B.C. test are predictable. This lesson will give you ideas about how to research your answers, so you can be better prepared.

This lesson will help you identify points of disagreement so you can address them in your argument. It will make your answer much stronger, and improve your logic and communication of information scores.