Language Workshops

At the heart of the world’s most livable city is US. We are a PROVIDER OF HIGHLY INTENSIVE SEMINARS for students of English as a Foreign/Second Language (EFL/ESL).

Students whose goal is admission to a Canadian university face a daunting task. Not only must those students fulfill the requirements of their major, but they are also expected to score extremely well on the IELTS or TOEFL. Facing chronic under-funding, Canadian universities place heavy demands on their applicants and extend no special treatment to overseas students, even though they pay much higher fees.

An intermediate-level student who approaches the task of learning English with enthusiasm and discipline can expect to take about a year to reach the minimum score on the IELTS or TOEFL that most universities demand. Such a student will completely immerse him- or herself in the English language, make some Canadian friends, and get set up in a Canadian lifestyle.

Perhaps inspired by the challenge, those international students who are eventually admitted to a Canadian university return home proud of their feat. It is often their first real accomplishment as independent adults.

Students come here to improve their IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC scores as fast as possible and to effectively prepare for admission to a Canadian college or university. To achieve that, they require excellent guidance from native speakers. Our greatest strength at WSW is the quality of our teaching staff. Graduates of WSW Seminars will tell you about excellent lesson planning and a willingness to go the extra mile.

Earl’s teaching career began in 1989 as a TOEFL teacher with Hansa Language Centre of Toronto. Over the years, he helped Hansa Language Centre grow into one of the largest ESL schools in Canada, sold 35 one-year courses for TAIE on a marketing trip to China—a company record, and built the TOEFL program that quadrupled NCA’s student population during the SARS crisis when many schools were collapsing. In addition, he has taught ESL, TOEFL, TOEIC and Corporate English, including a year in Germany, where he provided executives with intensive private lessons and helped them prepare reports and presentations.

Here are some of the subjects he can comfortably teach:

Executive Writing / Presentations: He taught executives of top firms in Germany; and written reports, proposals, press releases and other marketing materials for many years. He has also written 3 books, two fiction and the other non-fiction. He could easily offer a fun filler called How to Write a Novel Fast.

Cryptocurrency, Stock and Commodity Trading: He has his own 300-page curriculum and has traded for 18 years.

Learn English in Record Time: He has taught Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Grammar, Vocabulary, Idioms, Pronunciation and written an essay for a magazine on how the teaching of test prep differs from that of ESL. Having studied more than 7 languages, Earl is a language learning expert and offers his students special tips and tricks on learning a language faster. The first and most important tip? Have fun learning English and you will come to class with an open mind. New information flows easily into an open mind. A larger than life personality, Earl’s style alternates from relaxed and worldly to high-powered and intense, as if his hair is on fire.

As credentials for teaching fiction and non-fiction writing classes, he can point to 2 self-published books (Buddha’s Cross and The Chocolate Party Manifesto) and a third upcoming (The Human Charter). Earl has an outline and notes for a grammar book called Grammar One that he applies to his Advanced Grammar classes.

Other Subjects of Expertise:

Reading – Writing – Listening – Speaking
Vocabulary – Idioms – Pronunciation
TOEIC – IELTS – SSAT

Qualifications:

By the way, he attended 4 universities in Canada and has transcripts from 3, but had trouble getting any of the universities to accept all the other credits. Four universities – Dalhousie University; McGill University; University of Waterloo; Wilfred Laurier University

TESL – NCA Canada (He helped design the program.)

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