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Sep 15
3 min

Your three pronged approach

There are three ways to transcend a language barrier and two of them do not incur operating costs. Is your organisation doing all it can ...

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Shelley Purchon

Jun 18
5 min

Be understood despite your face mask.

Do you speak to English Additional Language clients in a face mask? Follow these 8 steps for clearer speech.

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Working with interpreters: a half day course.

Shelley Purchon

Mar 31
3 min

Working with interpreters: a half day course.

Interpreters are an expensive resource. This course shows staff how to recognise competence in interpreters, and work in harmony with them

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EAL inclusion at Westgate Hill Primary Academy

Shelley Purchon

Feb 14
4 min

EAL inclusion at Westgate Hill Primary Academy

Communicating with EAL pupils and engaging EAL parents can become easier with communication training.

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Shelley Purchon

Jan 31
4 min

What to expect

Have you enrolled on an English Unlocked communication skills course? This training is unlike anything else out there and you may be wond...

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Shelley Purchon

Oct 9, 2019
4 min

How English Unlocked got started.

Today's article explains how I came to be a pioneer opening up a brand new sector within workplace training.

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Communication training can help your organisation - here's how.

Shelley Purchon

Jul 4, 2019
4 min

Communication training can help your organisation - here's how.

Organisations with non English speaking clients need specialist training. Learn how communication training can benefit your organisation.

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Shelley Purchon

Apr 1, 2019
3 min

Watch this video

..for a taste of how it feels for people who have Limited English Proficiency when they are listening to you.

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Shelley Purchon

Mar 27, 2019
4 min

Miscommunication: eight common examples

Non English speaking clients sometimes say things that don't make sense. Here are 8 common miscommunication examples among English learners.

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Good for business: what can international business people gain from communication training?

Shelley Purchon

Mar 20, 2019
4 min

Good for business: what can international business people gain from communication training?

What can international business people gain from communication training? Recent client Frank Coles explains the benefits.

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Shelley Purchon

Feb 11, 2019
5 min

Communicating with EAL parents

How can teachers conduct a parents evening when parents have English as an Additional Language?(EAL) Here are my 13 tips to help.

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Shelley Purchon

Jan 10, 2019
5 min

How not to be patronising

How can you simplify your English without seeming patronising? It is a very fine line. Here are 12 tips from a communication expert.

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Shelley Purchon

Jan 8, 2019
3 min

What I do.

How can English Unlocked help your organization to communicate with non English speaking clients?

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english unlocked

Your three pronged approach

Be understood despite your face mask.

Working with interpreters: a half day course.

EAL inclusion at Westgate Hill Primary Academy

What to expect

How English Unlocked got started.

Communication training can help your organisation - here's how.

Watch this video

Miscommunication: eight common examples

Good for business: what can international business people gain from communication training?

Communicating with EAL parents

How not to be patronising

What I do.

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