Teeline Professional

Course Content
Shorthand remains a respected and essential skill in professions such as Administration and Journalism. This course is designed to help you start your shorthand learning experience from the beginning and will guide you through a comprehensive lesson plan until you are able ultimately to write up to 80 wpm (words per minute).

This is a comprehensive shorthand course with fourteen lessons in total. You will also have use of dictation material between 40 to 80 wpm, key shorthand outlines, exercises, quizzes and crosswords and keys to transcribed passages.

Lesson One: The Teeline Alphabet from A to M.
Lesson Two: The Teeline Alphabet from N to Z.
Lesson Three: Join letters, T, D and F, punctuation marks, short sentences.
Lesson Four: Joining S, word endings, soft C.
Lesson Five: Downward and upward short L, special use of L, joining the letter B to letters, G and N, joining the letter J with B, C and K, outlines with R followed by M.
Lesson Six: More common word outlines, writing outlines for words beginning WH, grouping words together to form one outline, transcribing a short passage from dictation.
Lesson Seven: The use of vowels, more vocabulary using vowels.
Lesson Eight: Outlines to represent double vowels, vowel indicators for word endings, simple word groupings.
Lesson Nine: Blend letters, lengthening L, M and W to add R, extending the use of R, writing further special outlines.
Lesson Ten: Words ending with –TION, more blends, common word groupings.
Lesson Eleven: Words using the CM, CN and CNV blends, outlines for words ending –NCE, additional special outlines
Lesson Twelve: Shortened outlines for word beginnings, more special outlines and word groupings
Lesson Thirteen: Using full vowels to form word endings, abbreviations for different word endings, Teeline outlines for figures and dates, days of the week and months of the year
Lesson Fourteen: Further vocabulary, more simple and common words, additional word groupings, consolidation.

• Core secretarial skills with shorthand speeds of up to70 wpm.
• Recommended by Teeline Education Ltd, and written by the co-author of Teeline Revised. Sufficient shorthand knowledge for the OCR Stage I examination.
• A wide choice of training locations and times, and the flexibility and value of self-study training methods that allow for different learning speeds and styles.
• A workbook, with glossary and hands on exercises, which complements the audio-visual materials (CD), to provide step-by-step learning, and a future reference manual.
• The opportunity to gain a widely recognised Pitman Training certification.