Introduction

• Recommended Duration : 3 months (12 weeks x 15 hours per week)

1. understand straightforward information in the spoken and written language;
2. express himself/herself in speech and in writing for simple practical purposes in everyday situations, requiring a simple and direct exchange of information.Upon completion of the Lower-Intermediate Level, the student should be able to:understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type;
3. introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has;
4. interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

1. understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance;
2. communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters;
3. describe in simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

1. understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, college etc;
2. deal with most situations likely to arise while living in an area where the language is spoken;
3. produce grammatically accurate simple connected texts and essays on topics that are familiar or of personal interest;
4. describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

1. Managing your study time
2. Identifying the study skills you need
3. The best conditions for learning
4. Planning how to meet your workload
5. Recognising good study skills
6. Using feedback to improve
7. Learning logs and reflective journals
8. Working with other people
9. Prioritising tasks
10. Managing stress
11. Dictionary use and your learning

1. Understanding essay titles
2. Improving paragraphs with topic sentences
3. Structure in writing
4. Using examples to support written statements
5. Expressing fact and opinion in writing
6. Recognising the different functions of language
7. Describing graphs and tables
8. Comparing graphs
9. Finding out about plagiarism
10. Identifying plagiarism and avoiding poor practice
11. Using quotations
12. Using paraphrase in writing
13. The role of the introduction to a report or essay
14. Creating cohesion in your writing
15. Revising your written work
16. Writing an effective conclusion
17. Proofreading a text
18. Compiling a reference list
19. Presenting your written work

1. Introduction to reading skills
2. Reading online and printed texts
3. Prediction strategies for reading
4. Speed reading and scanning practice
5. Good practice in note-taking to avoid plagiarism
6. Reading to identify main points
7. Identifying text types
8. Scanning for specific information
9. Reading and critical thinking
10. Skim-reading practice

1. Understanding choice of tense
2. Reviewing verb groups
3. Structures for expressing purpose
4. Impersonal style and passive verb constructions
5. When do you need to use an article with a noun phrase?
6. The meanings of modal verbs
7. Using noun phrases instead of clauses
8. Forming complex noun phrases
9. Reviewing dependent prepositions
10. Expressing causality and sentence structure
11. Verbs followed by gerunds and/or infinitives
12. Changing emphasis in a sentence
13. Using colons and semicolons
14. Hedging or using language cautiously

1. Introduction to vocabulary learning
2. Building your vocabulary
3. Language for classifying
4. Forming words with prefixes and suffixes
5. Business vocabulary in wider use
6. Homophones, homonyms, and homographs
7. Introduction to abstract vocabulary
8. Stylistic effects of abstract vocabulary
9. Using online concordances to improve your vocabulary
10. Confusable words
11. The importance of semi-technical vocabulary
12. The structure, meaning and use of phrasal verbs
13. Using idiomatic language
14. Researching specialist vocabulary

1. How to take good notes while listening
2. Prediction skills for listening
3. Using clues to understand lectures and presentations
4. Listening practice: setting up a business
5. Listening for signposting language
6. Recording data
7. Focusing on the language in a lecture
8. Listening for key points in a science lecture
9. Listening to a complex description
10. Listening for idiomatic phrases
11. Listening closely to follow presentations
12. Recognising different features of spoken English language
13. Listening for and understanding new vocabulary

1. Communicating online
2. Contrasting spoken and written language
3. Communicating in seminars
4. Listening and speaking in seminars
5. Checking and clarifying when speaking
6. Unstressed aspects of pronunciation
7. Word and sentence stress
8. Sound linking in speech
9. How to deliver an oral presentation
10. Useful language for oral presentations
11. Contractions in speech
12. Occupational varieties of language
13. Identifying varieties of spoken language
14. Speaking without hesitating

1. Biological sciences: producing a lab report
2. Law assignments: answering the problem question
3. Business studies: reading part of a case study
4. Business studies: business jargon
5. Nursing studies: assessing patient-based scenarios

• GCE ‘O’ level or equivalent with Elementary English standard

• Recommended Duration : 12 months
• Weekly Time-tabled hours (teaching) : 15

• Recommended Duration : 18 months
• Weekly Time-tabled hours (teaching) : 9 per week

1. Acquire, organize and communicate information effectively;
2. Utilize study skills effectively in acquiring knowledge, and in gathering, organizing and presenting information;
3. Use correct grammar for academic writing;
4. Use appropriate vocabulary for report writing;
5. Achieve English level equivalent to IELTS 5.5

1. To prepare students for the test-taking skills and strategies needed to successfully tackle the four IELTS modules: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
2. To equip students with a broad range of language skills for academic study in an English-speaking environment.

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