What You’ll Get:

10 live, one-on-one online lessons, 60 minutes each, targeted at your level

• One carefully selected topic with accompanying dialog for each lesson

• Grammar points which match the material and suit the discussion

• Vocabulary tracking based on what you actually cover with our teachers

• Experienced, trained AllSet Learning teachers patiently guiding you and encouraging you to talk

Topics Covered in This Course

Focused on everyday psychology topics, this 10-Lesson Discussion Course covers:

1. Reason and Emotion: How do you and those in your life habitually react to the world around you?

2. Patterns of Behavior: What are the key behavioral patterns which apply to the people around you?

3. Dealing with Dilemmas: When faced with a very difficult issue and there seems to be no perfect solution, what do you do?

4. Dangers of Debate: What traps do many people follow into when they get into a debate?

5. How to Ask Questions: Questions are a part of our everyday lives, but they deserve closer inspection from a psychological angle.

6. Ignoring One’s Faults: Is it wiser to focus on our weaknesses or ignore them and focus on our strengths?

7. Life Priorities: These are very personal and hard to figure out for anyone, but the principles behind the decisions are worth discussing.

8. Life Goals: How can one appraise the worthiness of a life goal?

9. True Struggle: We all have struggles in our lives, but it’s worth considering what the biggest and most worthwhile ones are.

10. Prudent Decision-making: We all want to make wise choices for the long-term, but how, exactly does one go about doing this?

HOW YOU WILL STUDY EACH LESSON

Your assignment for each lesson will be posted to the AllSet Learning Hub, our platform for managing our clients' studies. There you will see what you need to prepare in advance, as well as the exact material (one new topic with dialog in each lesson) your teacher will cover with you during each lesson.

In each 60-minute lesson, the following material will be covered by your teachers:

• Vocabulary and Grammar Review (from your previous lessons)

• New Topic with Dialog (using our flexible Adaptive 3-Tier System)

• Sum-up and Assess (review what has been covered and determine if it still needs additional attention)

OUR ADAPTIVE 3-TIER SYSTEM

Every learner can't be at the exact same level, so we can't simply design a course for the "ideal" learner. Instead, we've designed a flexible 3-tier system which gives the lower-level learners more practice with the basic reading skills, and the higher-level learners more time practicing speaking.

1. Dialog Content. We start with these realistic exchanges to provide social context and relevant vocabulary. These are not long, but they're a good place to start if the topic is not super familiar to you. When the topic is quite familiar, this should go quite quickly and smoothly.

2. Vocabulary and Grammar Practice. If you understand what you've read, you may have a passive familiarity with the words and patterns in the chapter. Some of the vocabulary includes common but newly coined terms, however, so don't be surprised if you've never encountered it. These modules are designed to make sure you can actually use them to express your own ideas.

3. Guided Discussion. Finally, you'll be expected to share your ideas and experiences related to the main topic. It's a great chance to share your views on parenting, and to learn the predominant view on the topic in China. Your teacher will encourage you to use the vocabulary and grammar covered today, and to correct you as needed.

OUR TEACHERS

All of AllSet Learning's teachers have been trained by John Pasden in person in Shanghai. They encourage communication, correct pronunciation, and hold our clients to a higher standard. They're also quite engaging to talk to!

To guarantee flexibility and schedule coverage as full as possible, each of our clients will have multiple teachers. Teachers coordinate and follow their clients' studies through the AllSet Learning Hub.

LESSON POLICIES

We offer flexible scheduling and a money-back guarantee. Check out the details on our policies here.