The teacher’s lectures helped me, not only to learn techniques and strategies for the exam, but also to acquire basic grammatical knowledge which would be useful for daily conversation.

Time management was the biggest problem for me in the past, but this time I could answer all the questions during the exam and even had the time to recheck some of my answers.

As a result, my score was increased by more than 100 points.
I trust this score will be to my advantage to get a new job in my near future and I would like to thank the teacher!
　

I am so happy to have got a “B” for all the subjects in a single sitting! I would not have made it before my graduation from Uni if I had not decided to take this course. Thank you very much, JET English College!!

He is currently a third year student majoring in nursing in Australia. He has seen many foreign nurses giving up their dreams of becoming a registered nurse in Australia due to their inability to reach the English standards, so he decided to take the OET course at JET English Course, even though he had about two years before he earned his degree. While taking the OET course, he received many tips and encouragement from the teachers and staff at JET English College, and he finally achieved “B” on all the subject areas in a single sitting. He just cannot wait until he graduates from the university to become a registered nurse. Congratulations!!!!

＜The story of the achievement of “B”s＞
Jack was a registered nurse in Hong Kong and he came from Hong Kong to Australia in order to become a registered nurse in Australia, he enrolled for the Bachelor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), one of the most famous universities for nursing in Australia.
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Jack struggled with and suffered from learning Academic English. While he was facing with his struggles, he saw many other overseas nurses who wanted to become registered nurses and who had been agonizing about the ongoing changes in the regulations of the Nursing Board in Australia.
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Jack realised that he would not make it if he did not study for it, so he decided to enroll in the OET course at JET English College (Jack was in the first semester of his second year at the Uni.)
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Jack received many tips and learnt many techniques for the OET from this course, and the school staff always encouraged him in his studies. During the course period, he took the OET test and received a “B” in 3 subjects in his first sitting of the test; this convinced him to have a lot of confidence in continuing with the OET. (Jack was in the second semester of his second year at Uni.)
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After having finished the OET course, he took the OET test again, and YES! He did it all! He achieved “B” marks in all the skills in a single sitting! (Jack was in the first semester of his third year at Uni.)
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He still has six months left until he receives his degree in nursing. Now that he has achieved the OET “B” marks, he can apply to become a registered nurse in Australia and can start looking for a registered nurse job! He has no doubt about getting a job in a medical institution because he already passed the OET test, way earlier than he had planned and long before his current visa expiration date. He is now so happy with his decision to have taken this course at this time.

Examples:
A very similar phrase to this is ‘touchy subject’, or ‘a no go area’.
They both have the idea that it is something that you should not really talk about, a sore point is really something that is unpleasant for somebody for a particular reason.

Sentences：
Don’t ask him why he had to sell his car last year; it’s a sore point with him.

Don’t speak about what happened on holiday last summer; it’s a sore point with her.

Don’t ask Fukuda-san if she got a salary increase this year; she didn’t, and it is a sore point with her.

Conversation 1
A: Hi there, have you seen Jane?
B: No I haven’t, why do you want to see her.
A: I heard that she split up with her boyfriend.
B: Yeah, that’s right, about a week ago.
A: The thing is, I lent him some CD’s, and he said that he would give them back to me through her, but if they are not seeing each other that could be a problem so I wanted to get his number off her so I can call him myself.
B: Oh I see, I’d wait a little while before you ask her, the subject of him is a bit of a sore point with her, she’s still very upset about what happened.
A: Ok then, but I can’t leave it for too long because I need my CD’s back.

Conversation 2
A: Hi, what’s the matter with Sarah?
B: I don’t know, what happened?
A: I was just talking to her and she started crying and walked off.
B: What did you say to her?
A: Nothing, I just said that I would rather die than go for dinner with that guy I met in the bar last night.
B: Didn’t you hear, her grandmother died yesterday, so it’s a sore point with her.
A: Oh no I didn’t realize, what a stupid thing to say! I’ll go and apologize.

(Callan book4, Stage 8 799p) 

Examples:
He’ll see red
I saw red
It just make me see red

Sentences：
I was so angry, I just saw red for a moment and hit him.
It makes me see red when I see someone hitting an animal.
When he laughed in my face, I just saw red.
Some internet customers are seeing red as a result of the new virus that slowed Web traffic last week.

Conversation 1
Two women talking
A: I’m so angry, you’ll never guess what I just saw.
B: Really? What?
A: I saw a woman in the shop hitting her child.
B: Why was she hitting it?
A; I don’t know, I think it was because it would not stop crying
B: Well hitting it is not going to make it stop!
A: I know, it just make me see red when I see people being so cruel and stupid, it almost made me want to hit her!
B: Well, it’s probably a good job that you didn’t!

Conversation 2
Two men talking
A: What happened to your face?
B: Oh, I went out drinking last night and I got into a fight.
A: Why, what happened?
A: I’m not exactly sure, I was a little drunk so I can’t remember clearly.
B: What can you remember?
A: This guy said something to me, I’m not sure what, but all I remember is seeing red and the next thing I remember is fighting and being thrown out of the club by the bouncers.
B: Wow, it sounds like you had quite a night, maybe you shouldn’t drink quite so much.
A: Yeah you are probably right.

Other colors.
feel blue = feeling a little sad(We have the blues, I feel blue.)
a black mood = very bad mood(Don’t talk to her, she’s in a black mood today.)
green with envy = very envious(When I saw his new girlfriend I was green with envy because she was so beautiful.)
rosy= someone looks in good health, because they have colour in their cheeks

(Callan book4, Stage 8 799p) 

Synonyms：
precarious, delicate, dangerous, unsafe

Examples:
a touch-and-go situation
the touch and go of city traffic

Sentences：
The car was in a very bad condition, and it was touch and go whether it would get us home or not.
It was touch and go there for a while during the operation.
a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
It was touch and go but they finally gave me a seat on the plane

Conversation 1
A: How is your car?
B: Not good, sometimes it starts and sometimes it doesn’t.
A: Didn’t you just drive back from Melbourne?
B: Yeah, it was touch and go all the way, I kept thinking that it was going to stop and never start again, I was so glad when I got home.
A: I’ll bet, why don’t you take it to a garage?
B: I would but I don’t have enough cash at the moment.

Conversation 2
A: How is your father?  I heard he was in hospital.
B: Yes, he had a heart attack last week.
A: Is he going to be ok?
B: They don’t know, it is still touch and go, but they should know more when they have done some tests.
A: I hope he is alright, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.

(Callan book5, Stage 9 852p)

I have taken the TOEIC exam quite few times in the past. I have not studied for it seriously, other than having just done some of the past exams as a practice, but I had thought that I should put myself in the proper course to achieve a higher mark on TOEIC.

This 2 weeks of TOEIC course really paid off. In the class, I can learn how to tackle on a question from different perspectives and the teacher explained us the tips part by part.

At the same time, the teacher taught us how to understand each grammatical structure in each question and how to build more vocabulary lists for TOEIC, so I could say that this course has inspired me to keep studying English in the future. I would like to appreciate for the teacher and proudly state that this course is very effective for the TOEIC learners to study English in the future.

JEC Higher Career Course

I have been on leave from my studies at university and had been in Fiji to study English, particularly for TOEIC for 5 months. From these studies, I was fairly confident for TOEIC, but I was aware of the fact that I was weaker at the listening section than the reading section. I was struggling to find a way to bring up my listening ability, and I found the Callan Method and JEC to be the solution for this.

The main reason why I chose JEC was that I was not completely attracted to the General English courses I had seen as they had made me feel “slow” in learning English. Moreover, in the Callan Method, while focusing on increasing my speaking ability, I could increase all the other English skills by the way they are integrated together. This might be exaggerating a bit, but I want to say that as for the pronunciation correction and the increase in speaking ability, JEC is the best language school to choose among all the schools in Australia. I can further tell that if you feel that something is lacking in your English, this school can offer the opportunity for you to find your way and provide the changes to your English life in a positive way.

I can say that my English life has changed dramatically. The 2 week TOEIC course at JEC starts just two weeks before the actual TOEIC test, so it was very proper for me to neatly organize my study toward the day of the TOEIC. Honestly speaking, I do not believe there is such a magic course existing to deliver such perfectly suitable tips for students to significantly affect their score. The TOEIC course at JEC gave me some special insights; two mock tests, a lot of assignments, and skills for self-study, and the special tips for the TOEIC from Sam, the great teacher who teaches the Callan Method course as well. With all these aspects, I believe that this course is very effective for one to study for TOEIC.

I am foreseeing that I will score over 900 on TOEIC by fostering my listening ability with the Callan Method as well as my reading ability with the TOEIC course. You can do so as well at JET English College!!

Hi, I’m Romaine and I’m French. I found JET English College by accident! I took lessons in the Callan Method and also the TOEIC preparation course to help me get through the exam.

The staff are great and the teachers are very good. It’s a good atmosphere for learning English and to meet new people.

Sentences：
I’ve told him a hundred times not to go out without his coat on, but what I say just goes in one ear and out the other.

Why don’t you let in one ear and out the other?

Conversation 1

Wife to her husband.

A: Hi there.
B: God, you’re home early, I wasn’t expecting you so soon.
A: Did you put the washing out on the line for me?
B: No, you didn’t tell me to.
A: Yes I did, I told you before I went out. I said that it was really important because I need to get the clothes dry.
B: I don’t remember that, was I awake?
A: Yes you were, I swear everything I say just goes in one ear and out the other.
Do I have to write everything down for you?
B; That would probably be a good idea.

Conversation 2
Two women discussing their partners

A; Why is it that they never do what you ask them to?
B: I don’t know, it’s like they are deaf half the time.
A: Yeah, but they are only deaf when you ask them to do something.
B: I know, everything that I say that he doesn’t want to hear just seems to go in one ear and out the other. For example, last week I reminded him about his sister’s birthday, I even bought him a card, and then on her birthday I asked him if he had sent it. He hadn’t! The card was still on the table where I had left it. It drives me crazy!
A: But if it is something that they want to do then they never forget.
B: Of course.

(Callan book4, Stage 8 791p)

Synonyms:
discourage or depress someone

Examples:
Don’t bring me down
Don’t let things get you down.

Sentences：
He had to stop work, because the problems and difficulties of the job got him down after a time

Day after day of rain really gets me down

Conversation 1

A: Are you still looking for a job?
B: Yes, it has been two months now, and still no luck.
A: That’s really bad, you must be worried.
B: Yes, it’s really starting to get me down, it feels like I’ll never find anything.
A: Something will come up, you’ll see

Conversation 2
A: Hey, what are you doing?
B: I’m just thinking about my family.
A: Why, is something wrong?
B: Not really, but so much is happening and it gets me down that I can’t be there to share it with them.
A: Well you knew it would be like that when you came to Australia.
B: Yeah, but I just feel homesick sometimes.

(Callan book5, Stage 9 826p)