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Smart English through Cricket

Cricket is life. Each ball can be seen as a threat or as an opportunity to hit six and success. In this unique program, you find 700 Hours of advanced English lessons and success formulae tactfully laced with cricketing strategies, planning, execution, success, winning moments, players, statistics, scandals etc so that any cricket lover will acquire high command of English automatically! (This is a serious program. No cricket match inside.)

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Personal Skill Building Kit:
Product: Software in CD-ROM / DVD media + 300 Page Espoir Smart Communication Companion Book + A special CD-ROM with additional excercises.
System Requirements: Windows 2000 / Me / XP / Vista / Windows 7 and above + MS-Office Suite.
Product size: 24.5cm x 20 cm x 3.0 cm
Product weight : 625 gm
Benefits:

If you are a professional, executive or businessman, who loves cricket:
In just 21 days, the progress in you is seen by all. Your emails are crispy and to the point, your presentations use less number of slides but tell more, your communications are sharp. You are clear while talking about work.

  • Everybody start seeing you as a future CEO.
  • You attract smart people to work with you. Those amazing results achieved by your team will be attributed to your leadership, which will further enhance your brand value.
  • Competing companies notice your value and will employ head-hunters to lure you into their fold.
  • You receive incredible job offers which you have never applied for.
  • Your family and friends are proud of you.

If you are a professional student, who loves cricket:
Don't mug up rules of grammar or meaning of words - your brain is not designed for that! Your anxiety goes up and confidence falls flat. Use Theme-based Learning instead. In 21 days you develop an excellent command of English. In about 60 days you reach the level of IELTS / GRE / TOEFL / CAT / GMAT.

  • You become a desirable candidate, every company would love to recruit. English is an intelligent way to kill competition.
  • There is no upper limit for companies to reward your potential. Competing companies approach you with attractive offers! Everybody - even your most difficult customer - loves to have in his team a technical person with excellent language and articulation skills.
  • Even if you don’t flash the latest electronic gadgets or fashionable clothes, every boy and girl will envy you and respect you.
  • You score better in IELTS /GRE / TOEFL / GMAT exams. You are a star!

If you are a leader, future CEO or parent of a teenager, who loves cricket:
In 21 days, you develop and excellent command of English and simultaneously,

  • You influence others whether or not you have positional authority. Your words count. You make things happen.
  • You envision. You ask “Why-Not?”. You ensure your organization's competitive position, overall performance and future success.
  • You reason with others. You talk things out. You demonstrate success. You are a role model.
  • Not only your family, your community and country are proud of you.
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Product Features:
1. Feature Rich: More than 6000 audio sessions (both American and British accents),134 study units, 514 lessons, 136 tests. 700 Hrs. learning.
2. Customization. Feel the effectiveness from Day ONE!
3. Basic to Advanced: Become a star communicator. Use it to build superior language skills or to get higher scores in IELTS / TOEFL / GRE / GMAT.
4. Timely and Futuristic: Content-based Instruction (CBI) and Theme-based Learning. Blending of English with Success and Management principles through an interesting theme like cricket.
5. Industry-Ready: Developed by a global team of CEOs, Directors, Project Managers, Marketing and Finance professionals after analyzing the industry requirements.
6. No Restrictions: Private Learning. Progress tracking. Any number of users, Any number of computers, No internet connection is needed. No expiry date.
What Is Special?

As per educational and cognitive psychologists, the only way to master English and communication skills is through a subject you are passionate about. They recommend Content-based Instruction (CBI) and Theme-based (TB) Learning.

In this program, basic to advanced English lessons are explained through various success related topics and cricket as given below.

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Introduction: Part of speech, vocabulary builder, major steps in acquiring commands in spoken English, American and British English.

Tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous.

Future tenses: Will, shall, going to, present continuous / present simple with future meaning, future perfect, future perfect continuous, the future seen from the past.

Modals: Should and ought to, will, would, used to may, might, can, could, be able to, must, have (got) to needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, permission, offers etc.

Linking verbs: be, appear, seem; become get etc. have and have got; have and take; do and take.

Passive: Forming passive sentences using passives, reporting with passive verbs.

Questions: Forming questions. Asking and answering negative questions.

Verbs: Infinitives, -ing forms. Verbs with and without objects.

Reporting: Reporting people’s words and thoughts. Reporting statements, offers, suggestions, orders, intentions etc.

Determiners and quantifiers: some, any, something, somebody, much, many, a lot, all, the whole, both, each, every, no, none, little etc. Quantifiers with or without ‘of’.

Relative clauses: prepositions in relative clauses, particle clauses with adverbial meaning.

Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words: Reflective pronouns, leaving out verbs with auxiliary verbs, leaving out to-infinitives.

Adjectives: position, gradable and ungradable adjectives, adjectives and adverbs, participle adjectives, prepositions after adjectives, adjectives + that clause or to-infinitive, comparison with adjectives.

Adverbs and conjunctions: Position of adverbs, adverbs of place indefinite frequency and time. Degree of adverbs: comment adverbs, viewpoint adverbs, focus adverbs. Adverbial clauses of time, giving reasons, purposes and results, contrasts: although and though; even though, in spite of. Conditional sentences connecting ideas between and within the sentences.

Prepositions: complex examples with at, in, on, across, along, over, through, above, over, below, under, between, among, by, beside, during, for, in, over, throughout, by until, except (for), besides, apart from, but for, about, with etc. Preposition after verbs, word order.

Phrasal Verbs : Three study units and ten lessons about Phrasal Verbs. Through this program you learn more than thousand phrasal verbs.

Idioms & Phrases: Four lessons on idioms and phrases. Over one thousand idioms and phrases spread across the program.

Vocabulary Builder : Four study units and sixteen lessons dedicated to build vocabulary. Throughout this program, you build about 10,000 words.

 

Origin and development of cricket: Meaning of the word “cricket”, Origin in Southern England, First attempt to codify the game, MCC’s role as the governing body, Methods of scoring and method of dismissals, transition to over-arm bowling, One-day internationals and Twenty-20.

Players, Matches, Stadiums:  Prince of Wales of 1300 to the Twenty-20 heroes of the Twenty-first century. Cricket role models like Don Bradman, Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh. Controversial figures of Dr.W.G Grace, Dennis Lillee, Shane Warne, Muthia Muralitharan, Saurav Ganguly, Shoaib Akhtar etc. History of World Cups, Major matches. Major stadiums.

Cricket & Personality Development: The reasons behind cricket’s popularity. How cricket resembles life? The Gentlemen’s game. How cricket build character. Cricket and Mental strength. Cricket and Modern management. Use of Technology.

Coaches, Umpires: Coaches, bowling coaches, fielding coaches, famous umpires, umpiring blunders. Steve Bucknor, Darrell Hair, Brent Bowden, Mike Dennis, Aleem Dar, David Shepherd, S. Venkataraghavan etc

Techniques, Tactics & Cricket Laws: The game of cricket and its objectives. How to win a match? Opinions of successful cricketers. Decision to bat or field. Pitch, wicket & creases, bat & ball, Innings, overs, team-structure, scoring etc.

Facts, figures & fun: More than 8000 exciting facts and trivia.

Success stories and cricket blunders: “Taking Tendulkar’s wicket on debut” to “dropping the World Cup”.  Success stories of Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Garry Sobers, Len Hutton, Mahendra Dhoni, Mark taylor, Don Bradman etc.

Historic Moments: The first touring cricket teams of England to the Historic match at Johannesburg on 12, March 2006 where South Africa beat Australia by scoring 434 in a one-day international. Various record-breaking feats of wickets, sixers, catches and run-outs.

Politics, Scandals: Un-gentlemanly behaviors in gentleman’s game. Match fixing to drinking binges. Group fights to sex scandals. 

Cricket Journalism, Emotions: Writing wrongs, Speaking truth, Commentators, the joy of winning, the role of revenge. India-Pakistan matches.

Sledging: The art of sledging, famous sledging stories of W.G Grace, Hansie Cronje, Viv Richards, Matthew Hayden, Arjuna Ranatunga, David boon, Graeme Smith, Imran Khan etc.

Time management: Your self image. Personal and organizational goals. The goal setting process.

Controlling priorities to increase productivity: Setting priorities. Dealing with interruptions. Coping with emergencies. Managing communication.

Use of effective communication to improve productivity: Time for communicating, empathy in communication, Communicating with groups.

Team management: The empowerment imperative. The benefits of empowerment. Attributes of a leader. Communication and delegation.

Increasing the productivity of the Team: Sharing and communicating goals. Creating a learning environment. Developing and coaching self directed work teams.

Team commitment: Preparation of effective job description. Training area identification and training plan.

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***** A very effective formula .
As an engineer-MBA, I use this program to improve my English and articulation skills. Also, cricket examples are the best way to motivate any team - whether it is production engineering or marketing.
- Jacob Mathews, Sharjah, UAE

***** A better way to use cricket.
Glad that there is a better use of cricket! This program made my son better in communication. He learned structured English and success ideas on his own! Even teachers recognize his assertiveness and personality.
- Madhav Shinde, Indoreer.

***** Self motivating English skill building. Excellent idea!
Smart English through Cricket is unique. It indirectly teaches the secrets of success.It polishes the diamond in you. Using Cricket as sweetener, it makes us swallow tough lessons. I'm excited with this magical blend.
- Abdul Rassaq, Kolkata

***** Very useful for competitive examinations and interviews.
I have I appeared for IELTS without any IELTS text books. Only program I used was “Smart English through Cricket”. I got 7.5, I'm happy with my score.
- Nitin Agarwal, Sydney, Australia.

***** Once in a lifetime kind of product!
Reviewer: Payal Sanyal, Kathmandu
Smart English through cricket provoke the intellect, tap emotions, and stimulate adrenaline. I strongly recommend this program to any soul who is interested in cricket. Dear friends, good things like this program happens only once in a lifetime.

*****A game changing program - highly useful.
Reviewer: Asif Mahamood, Multan
Smart English through Cricket made me to see through the game of cricket and understand how and why others think, how industry and business function in this way. I got the idea of survival. Now I can convince and motivate anybody from a cricket antion and speak English globally with anyone.

***** Involve even the most difficult students.
Reviewer: Elsa Varughese, Daman
I write this email on behalf of fourteen people - all were Gujarati speaking and now English speaking. Smart English through Cricket inspired my boys in confidence building, positive thinking,
leadership qualities, public speaking and assertiveness.

***** You'll love English and yourself as you love Cricket.
Reviewer: Rahim Ismayel, Doha
I work in civil construction and was isolated in building materials and labour. I thank the person suggested this program to me. Even in this desert, Espoir programs provide the skills that support personal and professional development. now I speak to my European bosses, I negotiate with executives from other companies. My only interest was Cricket and all other things came free. Thanks Espoir.

 
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