Academic Requirements

• Sit for placement test to determine suitability.
• Except for entry into CAE Level 1, students need to submit their IELTS results or take a placement test to qualify admission to the appropriate entry level. Subsequent level advancement will be qualified through his/her exit test results at each level.

Non-Academic Requirements

• At least 12 years old

Outline of grammatical contents at this Level:

• Revision of the differences between Present Simple and Present Continuous and the use of state verbs. 
• Revision of the Past tenses 
• Revision of Future tenses 
• Revision of the differences between Present Perfect and Past Simple 
• Revision of Present Perfect Continuous 
• Revision of Comparative and Superlative adjectives 
• Verbs of obligation, deduction, ability and possibility 
• Revision of the First Conditional 
• Revision of the Second Conditional 
• Revision of articles and their use 
• Gerunds and Infinitives 
• Reported Speech 
• The Passive Voice 
• Defining and non-defining relative clauses 
• The Third Conditional 
• Question tags 
• Indirect questions

Outline of vocabulary contents at this Level:

It covers the following topics: 

• Food and restaurants 
• Sport 
• Family 
• Personality 
• Money 
• Transport and travel 
• Mobile phones 
• Describing people 
• Education 
• Friendship 
• Work 
• Shopping 
• The cinema 
• Television

Delivery Mode

• Full-time/Part-time

Delivery Methods

• Lecturers, audio-visual presentations, worksheets, conversational English and role play.

Duration

• Full-time: 6 months
• Part-time: 12 months

Timetable

• Full-time
  • 9.15am – 12.30pm and 1.45pm – 4.45pm
  • 3 hours per session, 1 session per school day
  • 15 hours per week, 5 sessions per week
• Part-time
  • 9.30am-12.30pm or 1.45pm-4.45pm
  • 3 hours per session, 1 session per school day
  • 9 hours per week, 3 sessions per week

Commencement Dates

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

Assessment Methods

• Students will sit for exit tests at end of each level
• Exit Test at end of each level

Graduation Criteria

• Completion of course
• Total marks must be at least 50% in the Final Exam.

Awards

• Certificate in Academic English Level 4 (Intermediate)

Academic Progression

• Students may pursue to further study in the respective English courses.
• Students have to pass the respective level exit test (by at least 70%) to qualify for advancement to the next level
• Meet Minimum Attendance Requirement
  • Foreign Student: At least 90% attendance (absence with valid reason)
  • Local Student: At least 80% attendance (absence with valid reason)

Full-time

Part-time