General English
General English Language Courses
General English morning classes
From 9am to 12.15pm Monday to Friday
We offer 7 levels: Beginner, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced and Proficiency. Students are tested and placed carefully into their correct level on their first day at school. Students move up when they have passed the required skills tests. These tests are given on the first and third Wednesday of each month in two of the four skills: reading/speaking and writing/listening. In addition, teachers give regular grammar and vocabulary assessments. At each level we teach essential grammar and necessary skills and functions. We improve students' writing and reading skills. Students also have a lot of listening and speaking practice. Teachers want students to practise their speaking, give opinions and ask questions.
General English afternoon classes
From 1.30 to 3.30pm Monday to Thursday with Friday options. General English afternoon classes have even more speaking and listening. There is a lot of pair and group work, discussions on varied and interesting topics, games, songs, videos, vocabulary and exercises to improve speaking and listening skills used in everyday English.
Afternoon Special class options
From 1.30 to 3.30pm Monday to Thursday with Friday options.
As well as General English afternoon classes we offer other special afternoon classes for our full-time General English students. In addition to the Academic English afternoon options we offer: pronunciation, New Zealand studies, and Self Access. These options and other new options are offered depending on student interests. New options will be announced in classes the week before a new class begins. The schedule for options is always changing and new options are added regularly, therefore students cannot enrol for these options from overseas.
Self Access
Self Access is an afternoon option designed to improve students' English skills in a fully individualised program using a wide variety of self-study resources. The student, with the help of the teacher, decides what area of English he or she needs to improve and the teacher designs a programme that caters for each individual student's level of English, interests and problem areas. Students use the school library and computers. There are books, videos, tapes, magazines, grammar worksheets, computer programmes, websites and much more to work from. Students will have an interview with the teacher and complete a Task Card. Every day students will complete a Daily Planner and keep a record of their progress in their Personal Library File.
Friday afternoon options
Students can choose to do the Conversation/special topic Class, watch the Movie, take an IELTS or TOEIC practice exam or participate in an activity. The activity option is an extra cost. We try to select low cost activities, usually from NZ$10 but sometimes we offer more expensive activities for around NZ$50.