Full Time English Program - L4

Course Description

Morning Course:

This course will help you expand and extend your knowledge of English to more complex situations. You will be learning more complex English constructions. Instructors will direct you to rely less on body language and to incorporate all the knowledge you have learned in previous courses when speaking, listening, reading and writing in English and/or with English speakers. There is a focus on fluency and accuracy at this level as well.

Afternoon Course:

This course is designed to help you connect with the real English speaking world and to involve you in real language situations. You will be given lots of opportunities to practice your listening comprehension and speaking skills. You will integrate your language skills to increase your ability to communicate effectively to native speakers of English. The purpose of the course is to broaden your knowledge and use of speaking and listening abilities in real-life contexts in the context of North America especially, and to help you speak English in a culturally and linguistic acceptable way.

TEXTBOOKS

Morning: On Target 2
Afternoon: North Star

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, we hope that you will be able to:

Morning Course:

1. Communicate fluently and with confidence in most common situations.
2. Increase your vocabulary repertoire.
3. Develop increasing fluency and sophistication when using English for more specific purposes.
4. Refine and expand the use of grammatical functions.
5. Expand your reading skills necessary to interpret authentic and increasingly more technical articles written by English speakers.
6. Develop some basic critical thinking skills needed and required in the English speaking working world.
7. Develop effective listening skills when communicating and relating with people.

Afternoon Course:

1. Develop appropriate listening skills, so that you can comprehend even the basic meaning of complex conversations.
2. Refine your conversational skills when talking about common daily activities.
3. Build confidence when discussing more challenging topics with other English speakers.
4. Build more vocabulary about different topics so that you can express yourself better.
5. Understand and value different cultures.
6. Interact with real reading and writing materials, and short TV news reports.
7. Develop some academic learning skills needed to continue to higher-level learning.

Review the course descriptions for all of our Full Time English levels:
   Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5, Level 6