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Specialized Vocabulary

Grandmaison Language School prides itself on meeting the most specialized requirements.

We will be happy to custom tailor a course for your specific field and needs.

Test Your Vocabulary Serie

Accounting

Business : Intermediate

Finance

Hotel and Catering

Legal

Medical

Secretarial

CCFA Fascicule Series

The World of Publishing

Legal Terminology

Advertising and Consumer Affairs

Housing and Architecture

Fashion and Apparel

The World of Art

International Relations


Série : Test Your Vocabulary

Do you use English in your work ?

Whatever your background, we have a program to help you improve your professional English. You can check your knowledge of key vocabulary and essential expressions and see how they work in context, so that you can communicate more effectively and confidently in your work or in your studies.

Many sections also have tips (advice) on language, language learning and professional information. To make the program more challenging and more fun, many different kinds of test are used, including sentence transformation, gap-filling, word families, multiple choice and crosswords. There is a word list to help you revise key vocabulary.

Vocabulary is an important part of language learning and this program will help you to develop your specialist vocabulary. This program will help you check what you know and increase your knowledge of new concepts and terms in a structured and systematic way.


Accounting

You may be a professional accountant, a student or have an interest in accounting as part of your job. The first section is an introduction to general accountancy terms and concepts. The other seven sections deal with important topic areas in the field of financial accounting and management accounting.

  • The basics
  • Fundamentals of financial accounting
  • Business organization
  • Financial accounting
  • Costing
  • Planning and control
  • Decision making
  • Financial statements and ratios

Business : Intermediate

This course will check your knowledge of business words and essential expressions so that you can understand and communicate more effectively and confidently. The first section tests your ability to talk about yourself and your background: to say who you are and talk about your business role and experience. The other seven sections each cover a different aspect of business – from business language and communication to business in the twenty-first century.

  • Business and you
  • Business language
  • Areas of business
  • Business expressions
  • Business management
  • Business communication
  • Background to business
  • Business in the twenty-first century

FINANCE

May be you use English in your work or in your studies? Maybe you are already working in business, perhaps in a finance department, or in a finance organization. Or perhaps you are a student doing business studies course. If you need to improve your knowledge of finance and financial terms in English, this course will help you.

  • Introducing key terms in finance
  • Financial planning
  • Managing company finances
  • Measuring company performance
  • Banking and insurance
  • Investing your money
  • Companies and business environment
  • Economic environment

HOTEL AND CATERING

Do you need to communicate with customers and colleagues from other countries ? Each section deals with an important topic area in the hotel and catering industry, including hotel services, food service and management.

  • The front office
  • Hotel services
  • Housekeeping
  • Food and drink
  • Food service
  • Responsibilities
  • Management
  • Financial affairs

LEGAL

This course will greatly improve your ability to communicate in English in a wide range of legal situations. The course will develop the communication skills you need to succeed in law and will enlarge your knowledge of the legal world. Everybody studying this course will become more fluent and confident in using the language of law and should increase their career prospects.

This textbook is a legal lexicon that will continue to serve students throughout their professional career. This work covers core terminology in the main areas of public and private law and was produced in Quebec.

Legal Terminology is divided into seven parts:

  • Sources and branches of the law
  • The judicial system
  • Penal law
  • Family law
  • Labor law
  • Business law
  • Obligations and contracts

MÉDICAL

Perhaps you work as a specialist in a medical field. Perhaps you are working in a hospital or medical centre or you need English to communicate with patients and colleagues.

The first two sections provide an introduction to general medical terms and concepts. The other six sections cover different medical areas from patient history and hospitals to medical conditions. You may choose to work through the program from beginning to end or may find it more useful to select topics according to your interests and needs.

  • Basic medicine
  • Body systems 1
  • Body systems 2
  • Dealing with the patient
  • Hospital environment
  • Illness and disease
  • Medical condition
  • Drugs and treatment

SECRETARIAL

Perhaps you are working in an English speaking country or need English to communicate with customers and colleagues from other countries.

You may choose to work through the program from beginning to end or may find it more useful to select topics according to your interests and needs.

  • The office
  • Routine tasks
  • Secretaries and the company
  • Storing and presenting information
  • The electronic office
  • Meetings
  • Written communication
  • Money matters

CCFA Fascicule Series

Each of our fascicules is designed to promote discussion of all aspects of a given field and provide an exhaustive list of appropriate vocabulary and expressions.

  • The World of Publishing
  • Legal Terminology
  • Advertising and Consumption
  • Housing and Architecture
  • Fashion and Apparel
  • The World of Art
  • International Relations
Working Hours

  • Monday 9am - 5pm
  • Tuesday 9am - 5pm
  • Wednesday 9am - 5pm
  • Thursday 9am - 5pm
  • Friday Closed
  • Saturday Closed
  • Sunday Closed
Contact us

Grandmaison Language School
  • 407, rue McGill, bureau 700
  • Montréal QC H2Y 2G3
  • (514) 985-2414
  • info@ecoledelanguesgrandmaison.com