General English Courses

Our General English Courses are designed to offer students the opportunity to take top quality English classes and have the flexibility to experience all that makes Dublin so special. Standard: Standard courses consist of 18.3 hours tuition per week (with a coffee break of 20 minutes each day). Classes are available from 09.00 13.00, Monday to Frid... ay inclusive. Intensive: The intensive course consists of 22.5 hours tuition per week 20 morning lessons as above, Monday to Friday inclusive + 5 lessons per week, 14.00 16.05 Wednesday and Thursday. Super Intensive: The Super-Intensive course consists of 26.6 hours tuition per week 20 morning less as above, Monday to Friday inclusive + 10 lessons per week, 14.00 16.05, Monday to Thursday. Course Organisation There is a detailed syllabus for each level and a course book and supplementary material are used in conjunction with the syllabus. The syllabus covers the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing as well as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar activities. Classes are generally task-based and always interactive with students and teachers continually working together to improve language output. Class work includes individual, pair and group work, teacher-led discussions, debates, presentations, written tasks and listening exercises. At the beginning of each week the language objectives for that week are posted in the classrooms so that students can see what language areas and activities will be covered. Students take a progress test at the end of each week on aspects of the work covered during that week. The first class each Monday morning is a revision session which focuses on language covered during the previous week and in particular on areas of the previous progress test which may need some extra clarification or practice. The new material for the week is introduced in the second period of the first morning when a new module of the course book is started. In addition to the course book teachers supplement up to 50% of the course with ...Read More