Duration: Next Intake: Awarding body: LSC offers General English courses designed for both students who require additional English language training to meet minimum entry requirements for British degree programmes or students who wish to further improve their English language. The General English Language course at LSCM is primarily designed for students who wish to develop their ‘practical’ English language for typical every-day social, personal, and work-related communication and interaction. The course specifically: Students achieving the General English Language certificate of attendance could* progress onto the Academic English programme. *subject to interview. (We offer classes at 8 internationally recognised levels from beginner to advanced.) LSC Malta’s General English course is designed for international second language learners and typically covers a variety of modules designed to improve learners’ proficiency in different areas of language use. These modules help students become more confident and effective in using English in everyday situations. Each module is 3 hours. The General English Programme Modules and Skills are: Focus: Developing the ability to understand spoken English in various contexts. Content: Listening to conversations, interviews, lectures, or podcasts to improve comprehension. Students practice understanding main ideas, details, and specific information. Focus: Enhancing verbal communication and fluency. Content: Students practice pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns, as well as improving their ability to engage in conversations, discussions, debates, and presentations. Role-plays and dialogues are common exercises. Focus: Improving the ability to understand and interpret written texts. Content: Reading a variety of texts such as articles, short stories, emails, advertisements, and academic texts. Students focus on extracting key ideas, vocabulary, and the structure of texts. Focus: Developing clear and coherent writing abilities. Content: Writing exercises range from short emails and letters to essays, reports, and creative writing. Topics often include grammar, structure, coherence, and cohesion. Focus: Understanding and using correct grammatical structures. Content: Lessons on tenses, articles, prepositions, modals, sentence structure, passive voice, conditionals, and more. Grammar exercises help learners apply rules in context. Focus: Expanding the range of words and expressions used. Content: Learning new words, phrases, idioms, and collocations. The focus is on acquiring vocabulary for various topics such as travel, business, technology, and culture, and understanding how to use them in context. Focus: Improving the clarity and accuracy of speech. Content: Emphasizes sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation. Activities may include minimal pair drills, tongue twisters, and practice with difficult sounds that may be different from the learner’s native language. Focus: Understanding how sentences are built in English. Content: Introduction to word order, subject-verb agreement, questions, negatives, and using conjunctions and connectors. This helps with fluency and accuracy in spoken and written communication. Focus: Understanding cultural contexts and improving intercultural communication. Content: Students are introduced to social norms, customs, and cultural differences that affect communication in English-speaking countries. They also learn how to navigate different registers and tones in conversations. Focus: Preparing students for everyday use of English in practical contexts. Content: Role-plays of situations like ordering food at a restaurant, asking for directions, making appointments, or traveling. Focus on useful vocabulary and expressions for real-world communication. *The programme may have a different focus depending on the learners’ needs and proficiency levels, ranging from beginners to advanced.
Overview
4, 6, 12 Months
Every Monday
LSC Malta
Entry Requirements
Any level
Key Features
Course Modules
1. Listening Skills
2. Speaking Skills
3. Reading Skills
4. Writing Skills
5. Grammar
6. Vocabulary
7. Pronunciation
8. Pronouns and Sentence Structure
9. Cultural Understanding and Communication
10. Real-life Situations and Communication (e.g., Survival English)
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