National Coaching Week

This week, February 3rd-9th celebrates the tenth 'International Coaching Week'. Its purpose is to provide a week each year to educate the public about the value of working with a personal, business or executive coach.

Have you ever heard of coaching? If not, you may be interested in finding out more through the links below. The links provide opportunities for listening, reading, speaking and vocabulary practice all around the topic of coaching. You can listen to an executive coach, Cheryl Smith, discuss the differences between coaching and other similar disciplines such as mentoring, consulting, counselling etc. Cheryl also talks about the ever-increasing role that coaching has in businesses and organisations. There are also further listening tasks for you to do.

Click here for the reading / listening tasks related to the recordings.

Click here to listen to part one of the interview with Cheryl.

Click here to listen to part two of the interview with Cheryl.
Click here for the tapescript.
Click here to listen to the interview with Michelle.
Click here for the tapescript.

Happy listening and learning!