General English Plus TOEFL or TOEIC Summer Preparation in Mini-Groups

Overview

The General English Plus TOEFL or TOEIC Summer Preparation in Mini-Groups at the British Study Centres have weekly start dates and include a combination of 20 lessons of General English and either 2 private exam preparation lessons per week throughout the year or 5 lessons per week in mini-groups in summer.

Coursebook

We work with a coursebook enabling you to improve the four main skills – speaking, listening, reading and writing. As well as these four main skills we will also work on other key areas to help develop your fluency and accuracy – pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and idioms.

Speaking & Listening

This component of the course is an extra opportunity for fluency practice.

Grammar & Writing

This class will help you to improve your grammatical accuracy and develop your writing skills. You will be able to plan the grammar areas and writing skills you need or would like to study with your teacher and other group members. Grammar areas chosen may include past, present and future tenses, conditionals, gerunds and infinitives, comparatives and superlatives. 

Wordpower

This is an integrated skills class aimed to improve your vocabulary and the way you discover, record and use new vocabulary. You will have lots of practice using new language and will focus on using known language correctly. We will reinforce new areas of vocabulary through a variety of skills work. 

Exam Writing Skills

Available in London Central. This course component focusses on improving your writing skills as they relate to exam preparation.

Business English

Specialised Business English class where we cover all the skills but focus more on Speaking & Listening. Emphasis is placed on communication tasks which give you the opportunity to practise fluency and build confidence in business situations.