General Tailor-Made Courses

Beginner

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Learn to:

*Use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.

*Ask and answer simple questions on familiar topics and personal details.

*Introduce somebody and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions.

*Make simple orders and purchases.

*Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Understand:

*Familiar everyday expressions.

*Simple questions and instructions.

*Simple directions from one place to other.

*Simple answers when making simple orders or purchases.

Understand:

*What is written on a letter, email, postcards, and sign boards.

*Questionnaires asking for personal details.

*When and where is an event when using a leaflet or calendar.

Learn to:

*Write simple letter, message, note about yourself, somebody, your family.

*Fill in a simple application form asking for your personal details.

Elementary

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Learn to:

*Describe yourself, your background and where you live.

*Describe somebody, your family.

*Make simple transactions in the shop, offices, banks.

*Use public transports, asking for basics information and buying ticket.

*Ask for and give directions.

*Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.

Understand:

*Questions related to personal details.

*Questions related to family.

*Simple sentences when making simple transactions in the shop, offices, bank.

*The main point in simple, short and clear messages and announcements.

Understand:

*Letter asking information regarding personal or professional situation matter.

*Short messages from colleagues, friends, family.

*Very simple and short writing in newspaper.

Learn to:

*Write simple email, letter, note letter about your personal or professional situation including expressions for greeting, addressing, asking or thinking.

*Write short and simple messages about everyday life.

Intermediate

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Learn to:

*Start/maintain or close conversation with one or 2 other people regarding familiar matters.

*Talk about your professional profile, background in further details.

*Deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken.

*Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations.

Understand:

*Clearly articulated speech directed at you.

*Most instructions when making transactions on face to face, over the phone.

*The main points or any extended discussion in clearly articulated in standard language.

*Short narratives and be able to guess what comes next.

*Express your idea on a program played on the radio, TV related to a personal or familiar interest.

Understand:

*The main points in short and standard written articles in newspaper and magazines.

*The meaning of unknown words from the context.

*Recognize the significance of events.

Learn to:

*Write simple, emails, letters, note on a range of topics related to your interest or experience, family...

*Writing simple email, letter, notes about events, facts and give accurate details.

*Reply in writing to advertisement and ask for specific or further information.

*Write your CV in summary form.

Upper Intermediate

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Learn to:

*Initiate and maintain and end conversation a various topics with one or a group of people.

*Express and respond to feeling such as feeling, surprise, happiness, sadness, indifference...

*Give your personal opinions in various topics such as politics, economy, culture...

*Narrate a story.

*Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and accurate reasons and explanations.

Understand:

*In detail what is say to you in standard language even in a noisy environment.

*Most radios or television programmes in standard Mandarin.

Understand:

*The main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics.

*Specialized articles outside your field with occasional dictionary use.

*Writers points of view and feelings.

*How to look quickly through a manual to find the relevant information and help for a specific problem.

Learn to:

*Write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

*Write summarise information from different media sources.

*Write a personal letter or email expressing different feelings and attitudes and emphasing the important aspects of a fact.

Advanced

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Learn to:

*Take part in all conversations with a native speaker.

*Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.

*Express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions and in any topics.

*Give a clear and detailed of complex matters such as politics, economy, history...

Understand:

*Any extended speech from a native speaker even if is not well clearly structured.

*A range of idiomatic expressions, slang including in a radio programmes, movies...

*Even poor quality public announcements and be able to extract information from them.

Understand:

*A wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning.

*Complex reports, commentaries, contemporary literary texts and correspondence with the occasional use of dictionaries.

Learn to:

*Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Expert

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Learn to:

*Take part effortlessly in all conversations with a native speaker.

*Talk with native speakers on any matter even in a noisy place.

Understand:

*Through TV or radio programmes even delivered at fast native speed.

Understand:

*Ironic and satirical texts.

Learn to:

*Write summaries of technical scientific or literary texts.