General English Intensive
General English Intensive
Most students choose our full-time Intensive course which has lessons every morning and on four afternoons per week (view timetable).
The emphasis of all afternoon classes is on activating your
English and providing you with maximum opportunities to practise
your speaking. In addition a typical class includes vocabulary
development, pronunciation practice and the everyday English you
will need during your stay in England. If your level of English is
at intermediate level or above you will also practise essential
work- related activities such as telephoning and email writing, and
current affairs work using radio and television news, newspaper and
magazines. If your speaking skills are at a different level from
your grammar skills we will place you in the most suitable class for
your level of speaking. Intensive students also join the HELC
options programme.
HELC Options Programme
A General English Intensive course includes two 50 minute optional lessons each week. These options take place on Tuesday and Thursday and usually run in 1 or 2 week modules. For these lessons you can
choose from pronunciation, grammar or supervised self-study. During the busy summer months we add other options and you can see other examples of options in the list on the right. Your class teacher will
help you choose the most suitable options.
Please note that some options are run as workshops and usual HELC maximum class sizes do not apply.
Overview
Example options:
- Pronunciation.
- News and Current Affairs.
- Speaking practice.
- Drama.
- Grammar Workshops.
- Song.
- Supervised Self-study.
- Film.
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