GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE

LEVEL BOOSTER BEGINNER
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This course is designed to take you from zero to hero (zero English to at least basic understanding).

If you have absolutely no English at all it is perfect for you, otherwise join the elementary course.

GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE

LEVEL BOOSTER INTERMEDIATE

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Level booster courses improve your grammar and vocabulary range and start to prepare your English level for the exam. This is equivalent to a 4.0-4.5 at IELTS if completed successfully.

The courses focus on speaking and listening and reading, grammar and vocabulary is normally set for homework so it can be used in class.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Improve your grammar range and accuracy
   
2. Improve your range of vocabulary
3. Improve your pronunciation
4. Improve your fluency
5. Understand your learning needs
   

Course details:

Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday 6-9pm for 15 weeks = 135hrs. Payment is in 3 parts.

This course develops the essential grammar and vocabulary

• Speaking practice and pronunciation advice
• Past tenses and narrative tenses
• Present tenses
• Future tenses
• Conditionals 1, 2 and 3
• Relative clauses
• Complex sentences using because, however, for example etc

Different writing styles

• Vocabulary across a range of topics - sport, money, family, personality, transport etc

Modals

• Language of recommendation
• Language of deduction
• Language of possibility and ability

GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE

LEVEL BOOSTER - UPPER-INTERMEDIATE

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This Level Booster course helps develop your language toward a 4.5-5.5 IELTS bandscore and is perfect preparation for students who need to try and get a 6+ after an IELTS exam technique course. You should have successfully completed a general English intermediate course.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and use higher level grammar with higher degree of success
   
2. Understand and use a wider range of formal and informal vocabulary and idioms
3. Develop a variety of writing styles
4. Improve your listening and reading skills to more native-speaker levels of ability
   
5. Practice and improve fluency and pronunciation
6. Understand your own learning needs
   

Course details:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 6-9pm for 15 weeks. Total of 135hrs.

Coursework:

• At least 3 writing task in different styles – including IELTS type questions
• Regular homework sheets – grammar and vocabulary

Essential grammar and vocabulary needed for higher bandscores in IELTS:

Review of tenses and the more unusual uses

• Present
• Past – narrative tenses
  
• All perfect tenses
  
• Future

Modals:

• Conditionals
• Language of recommendation
• Language of deduction / cautious language

Complex sentences using various structures and conjunctions:

• Relative clauses and reduced relative clauses, because, however, for example, besides, although, as, while, when, in case, unless etc

Introduction to different writing styles, including:

• essays, biographies, letters, reports

Plenty of speaking practice to use the grammar and vocabulary learnt - emphasis is given to pronunciation and grammatical accuracy

Vocabulary across a range of topics and styles, including but not limited to:

• crime
• media
• health
• relationships
• food
• more formal and informal expressions and idioms suited to the reading, listening and speaking exams

GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE

LEVEL BOOSTER ELEMENTARY

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135hrs so you can actually speak English!

This gets you speaking and using English.

This is for students who can't communicate, who speak in single words and don't know what a sentence is.

It provides:

• Present simple and continuous
• Past simple
• Future simple and going to
• Vocab on essential topics from colours to numbers and more
• Lots of pronunciation practice
  

GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE

LEVEL BOOSTER PRE-INTERMEDIATE
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This course develops the basics for later study. This is equivalent to around IELTS 3.5 if completed successfully.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and use a variety of basic past, present and future tenses
2. Understand and use essential English vocabulary
3. Understand and use basic complex sentence structures
4. Understand your own learning needs
   

Course description:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 6-9pm for 15 weeks, 135 hours in total. Payment can be made over 3 parts.

• Past simple, past continuous, present perfect, future simple, present tenses
• 1st conditional and 2nd conditional
• Relative clauses
• Vocab on family, work, towns and cities, transport, hobbies and interests, education etc.
• Writing practice for a variety of writing styles
• Speaking practice for communication, fluency and pronunciation