Intensive English Program - Level 3

Course Description

Morning Course:

This course will prepare you to enter the intermediate language proficiency level: this means that you will be able to use the basic language skills you learned in at the beginners level courses and extend that knowledge and usage to more complicated settings. You will learn how to learn and practice increasingly more complicated topics, and will be expected to use your communications skills inside and especially outside the class with native speakers.

Afternoon Course:

This course is for Intermediate level students who want to practice and solidify their listening and speaking skills. As an Intermediate student, you are still developing the foundations of your knowledge of English. This course will give you more opportunities to talk and practice conversational English at your proficiency level. Your teacher will give you a lot of exercises that focus on a theme, so that you can develop more effective speaking and listening skills. You will work in groups, discuss different real-life topics and express and share your opinion and your culture's perspective about the topics. The purpose of the course is to broaden your knowledge and use of speaking and listening abilities in real-life contexts, and to help you understand some cultural aspects of North American society.

TEXTBOOKS

Morning: Top Notch 2
Afternoon: North Star Listening & Speaking, Book 2

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

Morning Course:

1. Communicate comfortably in most common situations.
2. Increase the number of useful everyday vocabulary you need to communicate basic ideas.
3. Increase your fluency and sophistication levels when talking about common daily topics such as health, marriage, jobs, and transportation.
4. Refine and expand the use of grammar needed to function effectively.
5. Expand your reading skills necessary to interpret authentic articles written by English speakers.
6. Develop writing skills needed to describe desires, facts and opinions.
7. Understand your learning style and be able to check your own progress.
8. Learn and appreciate different ways people see the world.

Afternoon Course:

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

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