GENERAL ENGLISH
These courses focus on developing all 4 core skills of the English language: speaking, listening, reading and writing and provides students with the skills and confidence to use English both in an academic environment and at the workplace.
English programmes can be taken with supplementary One-to-One tuition, should students wish to focus on any particular area of interest.
How many hours per week will I study?
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I want to study for 15 hours per week Expand
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General English TIMETABLE (15 hours)
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Time
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Morning
(8.45 – 12.00)
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Course code
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GEAM
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I want to study for 20 hours per week Expand
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General English TIMETABLE (20 hours)
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Course code
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Morning
(8.45 – 12.00)
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Midday
(12.30 – 3.45)
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GEAM C5
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General English
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Plus
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Conversation
(1 hour)
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I want to study for 30 hours per week Expand
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General English TIMETABLE (30 hours)
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Course code
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Morning
(8.45 – 12.00)
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Afternoon Classes
(14.45 – 18.00)
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GEAM IEPM
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General English
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Plus
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IELTS
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IELTS
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is an examination developed by Cambridge University and used internationally by universities and colleges to assess a student's suitability for academic undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
All the students who have externally sat the Cambridge University IELTS examination in 2010 have been accepted onto their postgraduate and professional programmes after completing their English courses. LSBF students who sat this examination since April 2010 have attained 6.5 as minimum score needed to progress to a Masters or Bachelors programme, while many achieved 7.0 and 7.5.
How many hours per week will I study?
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I want to study for 15 hours per week Expand
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IELTS TIMETABLE (15 hours)
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Time
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Afternoon Classes
(14.45 – 18.00)
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Course code
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IEPM
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I want to study for 20 hours per week Expand
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IELTS TIMETABLE (20 hours)
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Course code
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Midday
(12.30 – 13.30)
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Midday
(12.30 – 13.30)
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C5IEPM
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IELTS elective (1 hour)
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Plus
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IELTS
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I want to study for 30 hours per week Expand
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IELTS TIMETABLE (30 hours)
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Course code
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Morning
(8.45 – 12.00)
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Afternoon Classes
(14.45 – 18.00)
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GEAM IEPM
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General English
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Plus
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IELTS
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CONVERSATION CLASSES
This course aims to improve your conversation and speaking skills. It builds your confidence by providing opportunities to discuss, debate and exchange ideas, through communicative activities and tasks.
During the classes you will develop oral communication skills in a number of different areas including daily lives and the work place. The course will focus on improving fluency, and will also incorporate the vocabulary and functional language that you need to become a ‘natural English’ speaker. The classes are one academic hour long and can be taken in addition to the core 15 hour courses.
The course will cover a number of areas:
- Functional language used in everyday situations
- Vocabulary specific to particular topics and contexts
- Using conversational devices such as fillers and sentences markers
- Building confidence with both speaking and listening
- Improving the communication in terms of message and meaning
- Developing fluency and clarity of speech.
- Pronunciation work
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Converse with greater confidence and ability
- Recognise and use different conversational devices
- Use functional language in a variety of contexts.
- Communicate orally with greater success.
- Understand and improve some of your own pronunciation issues.
ONE TO ONE CLASSES
These courses are a unique opportunity to learn and practice English on a One-to-One basis in a comfortable and uninterrupted environment. These sessions are created for each individual student to help them achieve maximum results. The one-to-one English courses can be combined with any one of the School's programmes to maximise results, and provide for a more tailor made programme.