General Language Courses
General language courses are provided at a variety of levels. The chart below outlines the basic content and objectives for each level. For optimum results, teachers adapt their lessons to the specific needs and wishes of the students.
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Course Levels |
Course Objectives and Activities |
Course topics and vocabulary |
Grammar Points |
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Basic 1 |
Building basic vocabulary; forming simple sentences; practicing everyday situations |
Alphabet, numbers, colors, time, food, drink, descriptions |
Present tense; sentence; word order; singular/plural nouns; question words |
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Basic 2 |
Building up vocabulary; improving listening and speaking skills |
Family, going to the store, ordering at restaurant and bar, public transportation, adverbs of time and place, prepositions, at work |
Regular verbs, Present simple, Present perfect and past simple verb tense, modal verbs; personal pronouns; possessive pronouns; negation |
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Intermediate 1 * |
Extending vocabulary and grammar knowledge; focusing on listening and speaking fluency; emphasizing pronunciation; reading authentic texts |
Work and professions; going to the store (part 2); phone conversations travelling and holidays; the weather; reading newspaper articles |
Irregular verb forms (present perfect/simple past); separable verbs; reflexive verbs; |
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Intermediate 2 * |
Politics; influence of the media through newspapers, magazines, radio, television, computers, websites and the internet; writing e-mails |
Clausal structures; conjunctions; |
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Advanced 1* |
Developing, practicing, and extending business language skills; focusing on accuracy and tone; role plays; reading complex texts; |
Business idioms and colloquial language; formal vs. informal language; tact and diplomacy; synonyms; telephoning |
Conjunctions (part 2); conditional structures; modal auxiliaries; active and passive forms; infinitives and |
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Advanced 2 * |
Business idioms and colloquial language (part 2); verb-noun and adjective-noun combinations; phrasal verbs; communication strategies; business correspondence |
Grammar review from Intermediate 2 and Advanced; |