GEOS Vancouver Students

Full Time English Program - L5

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Course Description

 

Morning Course:

This course will focus on developing your fluency and accuracy abilities. Since you should have a good foundation in general English skills by the time you enter this course, this course will extend your communicative competence further, refining your usage of the language. You will have many opportunities to carry out communicative tasks that require an exchange of information and negotiation of meaning. In addition, you will extend your oral and grammatical skills, and will have a lot of opportunities to practice them in authentic communicative contexts.

 

Afternoon Course:

This course is designed to help you reach a level of competence that will allow you to interact with a variety of more challenging, sophisticated current topics. You will have lots of opportunities to study a topic and react and respond to it and to your classmates. You will discuss the topics that native English adults like to discuss with each other, and will be given the skills and knowledge needed to effectively participate in such discussions in the real world.

 

TEXTBOOKS

Morning: Summit 1
Afternoon: Real Talk 1

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

Morning Course:

  1. Expand the topics you can discuss and understand in English (develop an ability to discuss topics in further detail).
  2. Expand your knowledge and use of grammar and vocabulary.
  3. Speak English fluently that is, express a wide range of ideas without unnecessary pauses or breakdowns in communication.
  4. Use an acceptable standard of pronunciation and grammar when communicating.

 

Afternoon Course:

  1. Develop appropriate advanced level listening comprehension skills, so that you can understand conversations of controversial and complex topics.
  2. Build confidence when discussing complex and academic topics with other English speakers.
  3. Build more vocabulary about specialized topics so that you can express yourself better.
  4. Understand and value different cultures; and use this knowledge when interacting with other speakers.
  5. Comprehend and express complex feelings and points of view on a topic.
  6. Interact comfortably with real reading and writing materials, and short TV news reports.

 

 

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

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