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Individual Programs
- Develop fluency and quality
- Prepare for IELTS, TOEFL and CELPIP
- Improve pronunciation and accent
We will customize your individual training based on your interests and objectives. You may, for example, be preparing yourself for new professional challenges, or you may need to take a test, such as the IELTS, TOEFL or CELPIP. Perhaps you already speak English fluently but wish to improve your pronunciation.
Communicating in English is a matter of using the four skills: speaking, listening, writing and reading. However, you may need or want to develop one area more than another and, if that is the case, we will include the right amount of each skill practice in your program.
In class, you will mostly practice speaking, which is the ability you need the most direct interaction with the teacher to develop; in order to practice speaking, you need someone to talk to. The teacher supports you in different ways depending on your level. This could be by helping you build your first sentences if you are a beginner, stimulating you to develop fluency with quality if you are more experienced, and also drilling your pronunciation if it is a need.
To develop the other three skills – listening, reading and writing – you don’t need the same level of direct intervention from your teacher. Therefore, in order to maximize the cost-benefit relationship of your program, we will recommend you work outside class on most of the activities to develop these skills. Your teacher will review them and give you feedback in the following class.
IELTS, TOEFL and CELPIP Preparation
We will make sure you speak, understand, read and write with quality using the approach we described above, however, when you are preparing for the IELTS, TOEFL or CELPIP, we will use specific test materials and focus the work on each skill based on the score you need to get. To make sure you are successful, you will be expected to dedicate a good amount of time to studying on your own. After you have covered the assigned homework activities, your teacher will carefully go through them and give you feedback on how to improve the points that need attention. With our support, you will also become very familiar with each part of the test, learn how it is carried out and the best strategies to take it.
Pronunciation and Accent Training
You may speak using good grammar and vocabulary, but if your pronunciation is not clear and correct, many people will find it difficult to understand what you are saying. They may not be comfortable about asking you to repeat when they don’t understand and may also feel the conversation is awkward.
We offer a specific individual pronunciation and accent training, which is a comprehensive, tested and proven method that will allow you to pronounce the most challenging sounds in English correctly and clearly. We will also help you with intonation, rhythm and stress which are not only very important for your English to sound natural and pleasant, but they often affect the meaning of what we say. Improving these features will make you feel much more confident and effective in your interaction with others.
Group Conversation
An excellent alternative if you just wish to focus on conversation to develop fluency.
Groups have a maximum of 4 participants, which will give you ample speaking time every class.
Your teacher will make sure everyone takes part evenly.
Developing fluency in a language is directly related with how much you practice it. Our conversation groups provide you with that opportunity.
We will approach topics of your interest and also include discussions about intercultural communication. People in various cultures have different worldviews and consequently different behaviors. That is what we call “cultural differences”, and they often indicate the way in which you should use your English. Some attitudes or forms of expression which may be adequate in one culture or country, may quite well be considered inadequate in another. In our conversation practice, we will examine them and discuss what we can do to use English effectively in this context.
Combination Program
Get the best out of both, Individual Program + Group Conversation
The Combination Program maximizes results and is an excellent cost-benefit option to develop your English.
In the individual classes you work on your needs at your own pace, and in the group classes you get further speaking practice through conversation with different people in a multicultural setting.
Suggested combinations:
Option A: 1 Individual class + 1 group class per week
Option B: 1 Individual class + 2 group classes per week
Option C: 2 Individual classes + 1 group class per week
Option D: 2 Individual classes + 2 group classes per week
