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The BIE Method

Dynamic, Motivating, Structured

There are countless academies and platforms offering lessons with English teachers online, so why choose us?

For two essential reasons:

1. Our uniquely efficient method based on speaking & listening activities in class, maximized student participation, and attentive error corrections made in an encouraging & positive manner.

2. Our experienced native English teachers whom we carefully select and train to master the pillars of our method.

Dynamic Method

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Our courses are based on an extremely dynamic method that maximizes our students’ speaking time and keeps them constantly challenged through a variety of activities, including these main ones:

  • Listening: students listen to an audio segment or part of an article read out loud, and are asked to summarize what they’ve understood. After a first attempt, the teacher corrects his/her student’s mistakes, introduces new vocabulary, and asks the student to summarize again, including the new vocab and corrections.
  • Picture or Image description: students look at an image or picture and must describe it to the teacher in as much detail as possible. The teacher then corrects the student’s mistakes, offers new vocabulary to help him/her improve the description, and then asks the student to describe the picture or image a second time using the new vocabulary he/she has just learned. The student is then asked to read the caption out loud and to discuss more precisely what is happening in the picture/image.
  • Oral presentations: Students prepare a short 1-2 minute oral presenatation on a topic of their choice or based on a video or article they’ve started watching or reading in class. Teachers do not interrupt their students during the presentation, but will take notes of the mistakes they hear and the new vocabulary that could help their students improve on their presentation.
  • Grammar done in a communicative way: BIE grammar lessons are taught orally through a set of dynamic oral activities. Students must answer the teacher’s questions and ask questions themselves to prove they can master certain grammar points. The teacher is there to give clear explanations and examples whenever mistakes are made. (Note: The level of difficulty will gradually increase as long as the student answers the teacher’s questions correctly.)
  • Quotes & Debates: students read a quote and must debate the pros and cons of a given opinion in a structured and coherent way. The teacher will help by correcting the student’s mistakes and allowing them to better express their ideas in a clear and eloquent manner.
  • Questions for students: Students are asked questions on a specific topic and must answer in complete sentences using the correct tenses and syntax.
  • Knowing how to ask: Students are given answers by their teacher and must find the corresponding question. This is a great way to master the interrogative form in English (which is not that easy to do).
  • Headlines: The teacher reads news headlines to their students who must imagine what they think the article is about and be ready to give their opinion on specific topics.

This is a brief overview of the main activities that we conduct in a BIE class, but there are many more: “Active verbs”, “Phrasal verbs”, “Pronunciation”, “etc.

For an overview of these activities primarily aimed at improving oral expression and comprehension (reading and writing activities are mostly assigned for homework), have a look at some of our videos.

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Trained teachers

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In most online English lessons with academies or teachers found on language platforms, the policy is to hire non-native English speakers, give them a few manuals, and then let them do their thing.

If you’re lucky, your teacher may do a good job because he or she prepares the classes well, but more often than not there will be no standard you can rely on.

At Break Into English, not only are all of our teachers English natives with ample teaching experience, but they have also undergone the thorough BIE training program.

This enables us to guarantee that, regardless of which teacher is assigned to you, he or she will follow the BIE method that has been tested and proven with thousands of students in individual and company classes over the past 10+ years.

Well Structured Course

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We have created our own General English and Business English manuals with activities and exercises to be completed by students in class or at home.

Our General English textbooks are divided into 8 levels of 10 chapters each, ranging from a complete beginner level (A0) to a much more advanced use of the language (C1+).

Every chapter is subdivided into 5 units and focuses on specific topics and grammar points. From one level to another, several themes are recurrent and address the same topics and varying levels of difficulty.

Our BIE manuals are a great way to structure our students learning program and to follow their own progress more easily.

We also have two Business English manuals (“Business 1” and “Business 2”) of 10 chapters each. Our business manuals are suitable for intermediate students and above (A2 to C1+ level).

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Personalize the Focus of Your Lessons

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Whatever your learning goals and centers of interest, our highly adaptable method allows BIE teachers to structure the content of your lessons accordingly.

Every student is unique and has different needs and areas to improve. This is why we do our best to tailor our lessons to each individual by 1) sending questionnaires sent before the lessons begin, and 2) spending 15 minutes at the beginning of the first lesson to let describe why you need to improve your English and discuss your specific needs and background in detail.

So, say for example that you are an 35-year-old adult looking for a job in the sales department of a large company who needs to improve your level of English in general, but more specifically your business English and job interview skills. In addition, you like to watch movies & TV series and to play/follow sports.

In this case, the lesson content would look something like this:

  • 30% Business English
  • 20% Job Interviews
  • 15% General English
  • 10% Movies/TV series
  • 10% Sports
  • And the remaining 15% chosen freely by the teacher depending on your needs as they develop.

With BIE, you will get exactly what you need and work on topics that are fully relevant and interesting to you.

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No Mistake Goes Uncorrected

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Many online academies on teacher-hiring platforms offer conversation classes with teachers who simply talk with students without correcting their mistakes.

This is not who we are.

Honestly, free conversation classes with little to no corrections will not allow you to improve your level of English efficiently.

Therefore, at Break Into English, one of our main guidelines is to correct the grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax mistakes our students make in order to help them progressively eliminate these errors from their everyday speech.

We definitely won’t hide the fact that our teachers will be very strict and attentive to mistake correction in class. However, the correction process will always be done smoothly, in a positive and encouraging manner.

Help Protect the Environment

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By taking English lessons online, not only are you saving time and money, but you’re also helping to save the environment.

Think about all the energy you will use and greenhouse gases (CO2) that you and your teacher will emit into the atmosphere every time you both go to the academy for your class by car, bus or metro.

Now multiply that by the number of classes you have in a year.

If you have 2 classes a week that’s about 200 saved trips just for one student and one teacher; 400 if you count one trip to go and one to come back from your class!

And let’s not forget the building you would be having your classes in which needs to be heated in the winter, air-conditioned in the summer, etc… So do the Earth a favor and have your English lessons via Skype, Meet, Teams or Zoom to make the atmosphere cleaner.

Modern & Practical

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Forget about commuting to that English academy after work: getting stuck in traffic, finding parking spaces, getting home late, spending extra money on gas or public transport… With English lessons via Skype, Meet, Zoom or Teams, that’s all in the past!

Now you can go home (or stay home), get comfortable, and let modern-day technology provide you with a virtual classroom experience that’s even better than the real thing thanks to the abundance of stimulating learning material available online.

Over the years, we have compiled a list of the best websites to learn English on the Internet. Whether it be articles, listening segments, pictures & images with captions, vocabulary, grammar, verb tenses, or songs, your teachers will be only be using material of the highest quality during your lessons.

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Our Philosophy

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At Break Into English we know that learning English isn’t easy, and we’re not going to make believe that it is. We also know that students who spend their precious time and money to learn the language want real professionals who are going to challenge them and take them to their limits.

In fact, learning English with BIE is a bit like going to the gym: most people who work out don’t expect to get in shape overnight, they know they’re going to have to sweat and work hard to reach their goal, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the process!

You’ll find that our teachers are friendly but demanding personal trainers.