Duration: Three Weeks
Scope:
Introducing the language skills for the trainees needed and used in their daily working life on the rig, and their structure.
Expanding and developing the knowledge of rig components, and important rig terminologies in the rig site, and to help employees to start applying what they have learned, the main value behind this course is to make them communicate verbally & non-verbally with their fellow colleagues in English.
The three-week fast track technical English is also tolerable to the type of attendees in class and their positions, for instance if the attendees are from the drilling crew there is a big deal of focus on delivering the type of English that will help them in their Well Control course and exam, and if they are from the maintenance crew, the focus will be on manuals, checklists and meetings related to their jobs. Simply our purpose in this program is to break the language barrier for your employees
Week One:
Introducing the basic skills needed to speak & write in English Language, the main purpose at this stage is to build confidence and establish an elementary foundation to communicate in English.
Week one outline:
Day One
- Self-Introduction Presentations
- Alphabetic and how to pronounce them.
- Alphabetic exercise and word examples from the rig site
- Nouns, including Definition, & Types of Nouns
- Exercises and practice
- Adjectives
- Exercises and practice
- Assignment for presentation on the next day
Day Two
- Presentations and Feedback
- Revision and Questions
- Pronouns
- Exercises and practice
- Articles
- Exercises and practice
- Verbs
- Past
- Present Simple
- Present Progressive/Continuous
- Future
- Exercises and Practice
- Assignment for presentation on the next day
Day Three
- Presentations and Feedback
- Revision and Questions
- Introducing conversation Basics
- Practicing conversations
- Work Related Role Plays
- Meetings at work
- Adverbs definition, Adverbs of Time, & Reason
- Exercises and Practice
- Adverbs of Frequency, Place, and Manners
- Exercises and Practice
- Assignment for presentation on the next day
Day Four
- Presentations and Feedback
- Revision and Questions
- Plural
- Exercises and Practice
- Possessive & possessives pro-nouns
- Exercises and Practice
- Introducing the Exam
Day 5
- Revision and Questions
- End of Week One Assessment
- Presentations
- Written Exam
Week Two:
Completing the basic foundations and skills required, covering the terminologies used in the rig site, and improving the professional communication in English for successful daily work interactions. On this level scenario from their daily work are being created for practices. There will also be focus on their personal communication skills to fulfill the need of not only breaking the language barrier but as well the communication barrier
Week two outline:
Day One
- Self-Introduction Presentations
- Revision on week one
- Types of sentences
- Declarative
- Simple
- Interrogative
- Exclamatory
- Imperative
- Compound
- Complex
- Exercises and Practice
- Suffixes, Prefixes & Possessives
- Exercises and Practice
- Assignment for presentation on the next day
Day Two
- Presentations and Feedback
- Revision and Questions
- Prepositions.
- Exercises and Practice
- Rig components
- Drilling operations
- Crane operations
- Maintenance operation
- Assignment for presentation on the next day
Days three and four
- Enhancing Communication Skills – the focus in this stage is on the communication as a skill and not only the language as the purpose of the fast track at the end is to create better communication at work
Module 1: Digging under the Surface
- Square Wheels – How Miscommunication Looks Like?
- Give examples of written and unwritten rules embedded in the culture.
- Describe the vision, beliefs & values and behaviors that reflect a strong Communication culture.
Module 2: Self Awareness – DiSC Profile
- Conscious Competent Model
- DiSC Profile - Administration
- DiSC Profile - Explanation
- Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Model.
Module 3: Communication within the Team
- Whose Job is That – Communication Activity
- Types of Communication and the effect of each type
- Perception
Module 4: Cross Cultural Communication
- Zoom out – Cross Cultural Activity
- Cross Cultural Sensitivity
- Running Meetings
- Identical Structure – Wrap up Activity
Day 5
- Revision and Questions
- Week two Assessment
- Written Assessment
- Presentation
Week Three:
- On the last week of the workshop, the focus gets wider to cover not only English Language but also how to use it. Developing Business and Report Writing Skills with emphasis on the best practices people must know.
- Business Writing is a major component at this stage so as to prepare participants to be supervisors with different tasks of filling in reports, writing and sending emails
- Week three outline:
Day One
- Self-Introduction Presentations
- Revision on weeks one and two
- Construction of English Scentences
- Exercises and Practice
- Assignment for presentation on the next day
Days Two and Three
- Business Writing supports the improvement of Business Writing Communication and elevate the Communication Culture within the team, it aims to improve the way personnel non-verbally communicate in a Cross Cultural setup with a great focus on Business Writing, at this level the input from WDI specifically the different types of reports and routine emails to practice is very valuable
Module 1: Preparation is the key
- Handling Anxiety
- How to organize the thoughts and focus on the “End of “Mind
- Types of Readers
- Whom are you emailing has a great influence on how you write the email
Module 2: Ready to Start
- Principles of writing good emails
- It all starts with knowing your objective, once you know it, it makes it easy to have a list of organized ideas. Such ideas must be precise, accurate and backed up
- Humanizing the Business message
- Understanding Human nature and the different cultures for the readers you are writing to is an important component for writing emails
- Tone in Business writing
- Emails are the same as speaking, it has a tone that the reader can listen to and that tone delivers a great part of the message
Module 3: Finishing Your Business Documents
- Proofreading Strategies
- Proofreading is an undervalued concept when it comes to writing, despite the fact that it reduces a lot of conflicts and saves time, money and effort
Module 4: Emails and Reports
- Email Basics and Etiquettes
- Types of WDI rig reports
- Drilling operations reports
- Maintenance operations reports
- Material Man reports (optional)
Day Four
- Practicing Emails with focus on the routine emails provided by WDI
- Practicing Different Reports provided by WDI
- Every Position will work on his/her own reports
- Introduction to Oil Well Control
- Introducing the assessment
Day Five
- Revision and Questions
- Week two Assessment
- Written Assessment
- Reports and Email Assessment
- Presentation