General English

ABOUT THESE COURSES

These courses are designed for adults (aged 12 and over) who wish to improve their English for general communicative purposes.

These courses are offered at Elementary, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, and Advanced levels. Each stage consists of four levels, each of which lasts 4 weeks (16 hours) with lessons twice per week (2 hours) either on Saturday/Tuesday, Sunday/Wednesday, or Monday/ Thursday.

Intensive English Courses
Choose 4 or 7 sessions per week if you aim to improve your confidence in the English language as quickly as possible. We work with a coursebook during the course enabling you to improve the four main skills – speaking, listening, reading and writing. As well as these four main skills we will also work on other key areas to help develop your fluency and accuracy – pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, idioms.

CONTENT
Each course has a set of prescribed learning aims which are aligned to the globally recognized Common European Framework (CEFR). The learning aims tell you what you should be able to do in English by the end of the course, and the alignment to the CEFR allows you to compare your level of English to other people across the globe.
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During the courses you will develop your speaking, listening, reading, and writing, in addition to increasing the range and accuracy of your vocabulary and grammar.

There is a strong emphasis on speaking, with plentiful opportunities for you to practise speaking on realistic topics and situations. Listening and reading material is integrated in a

number of different ways to develop your skills. Your writing skills will be developed through regular writing sections and tasks.

There will be work on your pronunciation throughout the course and also the development of learning skills to enable you to become a better, more independent student.

COURSE ASSESSMENT

We use continuous assessment and testing to measure learners’ progress. The teacher will grade your speaking and participation during the course and you will do two assessed

writing tasks and an end-of-term progress test. You must

attend at least 90% of the course and make satisfactory progress to move to the next level.

Elementary

Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

Pre-intermediate
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Intermediate

Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

Upper Intermediate
Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Advanced

You will develop your range of everyday English social expressions for adding emphasis, interrupting, contradicting, persuading and spontaneous speaking.
You will study a range of grammar including perfect forms, participle clauses, articles, complex sentences and discourse, conditional sentences, and inversions.
You will develop your vocabulary skills by guessing meaning from context, understanding subtleties in language, collocation, and multi-word verbs.

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