The Academy 
at Home
 

      Advantages of the System

THE ACADEMY AT HOME

     CONFORT. No schedules. No traveling

With the English teaching methodology of The Academy At Home, you will be able to study and speak English, at the preferred moment of your day. You will do it at home, in your office or with your laptop, without traveling to a specialized center. You will enjoy a multimedia environment, which exceeds the best equipment fitted classrooms. You will advance at your own pace. You will learn English with a good pronunciation. You will write it without any spelling mistakes.

     VERSATILITY. All you need is your PC.

The main learning material consists of 12 CD-ROM, which will allow you to start your learning process, according to your current level, and reach a level equivalent to that of The Cambridge First Certificate.

Auxiliary review material of The Academy At Home, which consists of DVDs, VHS videotapes, AUDIO-CDs, and TEXTBOOKS, will assist you in the practice of what has been already learned and strengthen it in an entertaining manner.

     INTERACTION. A virtual teacher

Your PC corrects mistakes and follows-up on your learning by memorizing your work. It stores all your written exercises and all your oral recordings, in your hard disk.

The virtual teacher repeats 5, 10 or 50 times the same phrase so your “English ear” practices and finds more slightly each time, the pronunciation differences.

The Academy at Home, has among others, the following key advantages:

- Economical: It can hold up to three licenses, therefore three people can work with it. Relatives, friends, work mates, etc.
- Duration and guarantees: your discs have a 15 year guarantee and each of those users can start when considered suitable: one this year, another one in two years time, and the third one in seven years.
- Financial: Installment payments are an option.
- Pedagogical: The student uses a headset to study, with his/her desktop PC at home or at the office, or anywhere else with his/her laptop.
- Sessions can take up to 45 to 60 minutes, sessions which are very interesting and entertaining. With them , the student meets 300 American and British characters, along 144 animated situations.
- The user stays active, watching the situations, analyzing them, writing about them upon dictation, recording his/her voice, taking to characters in a role play, developing written and oral exercises, and much more.
- All the English voice recordings stay in your hard disc, compressed, so they don’t occupy extra space, allowing you to refer to them in the future, and the same applies to your writings.
- You read 35 to 40 new words per unit, totaling up to 5000 when all 144 units have been covered.
- Almost 80% of the time dedicated to The Academy at Home you will be actually speaking English in very pleasant everyday life situations.
- For companies, in case it is required, ABA has both native and Spanish qualified teaches to assist, do the follow up and control corporate users of The Academy at Home.

The Academy at Home obtains results that otherwise couldn’t be easily obtained, even with a private teacher, which by the way, happens to be highly more expensive.


 

 
 
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