Academic Requirements

• Secondary one equivalent, and/or completed Junior high year three
• English Language Proficiency: Beginning English Learner
• Internal Examination: Entrance test (if do not meet above requirement). 

Non-Academic Requirements

• At least 15 years old

Modules Covered

• Listening Skills
  • Following the development of anargument
  • Recognizing opinions, attitudes and purpose of a speaker
  • Understanding of specific factual information
  • Understanding of main ideas
• Reading Skills
  • Following the development of an argument.
  • Recognizing writer’s opinions, attitudes and purpose
  • Understanding inferences and implied meaning
  • Reading for detail
  • Reading for main ideas
  • Reading for gist
• Writing Skills
  • Evaluate and challenge ideas, evidence or an argument
  • Compare and contrast evidence, opinions and implications
  • Present and justify an opinion
  • Present a solution to a problem
  • Explain how something works
  • Describe an object or event or sequence of events
  • Describe stages of process or procedure
  • Organize, present and compare data
• Speaking Skills
  • To express and justify opinions and to analyze, discuss and speculate about issues.
  • To speak at length on a given topic using appropriate language and organizing ideas coherently
  • To communicate opinions and information on everyday topics and common experiences and situations by answering a range of questions

Delivery Mode

• Full-time/Part-time

Delivery Methods

• Schemes of Work (encompassing the learning objectives)
• Lesson Plans (encompassing the learning outcomes of each lesson) 
• Appropriate Teaching Pedagogies
• The teachers will utilize a variety of academic resources to conduct the lessons, including group work, presentations, audio-visual materials, field trips, lecturing and internet research

Duration

• Full-time: 3 months
• Part-time: 10 months

Timetable

• Full-Time
  • 3 months x 30 hours/week 
  • Total contact time: 360 hours
• Part-Time
  • 10 months x 9 hours/week 
  • Total contact time: 360 hours

Commencement Dates

• Full-time
  • January
  • April
  • July
  • October
• Part-time
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December

Assessments Methods

• Formative assessments will be conducted every month in the course, testing two components alternatively each time.
• There will be a final assessment comprising of all four components in the third month.
• Assessment format will be in accordance to IELTS format.

External Grading and Certificate

You will receive your test results within two weeks of taking the IELTS test. Your score is reported as a number between 1 and 9 for each module, as well as an overall score. A score of 9 is the best possible, and indicates that you are an expert user of English. A score of 1, on the other hand, indicates that the candidate cannot use English. The overall score, as well as the scores for listening and reading, are reported in half bands. The writing and speaking scores are reported in whole bands.

You can take the IELTS at any one of more than 270 centres in over 100 countries. Your results will be available within two weeks. You are not allowed to repeat the test within 90 days at any centre.

Full-time (3 months)

Part-time (10 months)