Pre-Academic 3

• Prepare for life in Canada while building your English.
• Develop academic skills while improving your accuracy and fluency.
• A great choice if you prefer a structured learning environment.
• Practise all four skills in a balanced way: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• Express your ideas with greater confidence.
• Focus on academic vocabulary and higher-level grammar.
• Explore different types of writing and learn to make your writing flow.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Use English confidently at an upper-intermediate level
• Use modifiers, gerund phrases, and infinitives in writing
• Use phrasal verbs more naturally in speaking and writing
• Understand higher-level vocabulary and work out meaning from context
• Identify the topic sentence of a paragraph
• Distinguish fact from opinion
• Paraphrase texts with a high level of accuracy
• Write a short narrative paragraph
• Write a coherent paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion
• Use correct sentence structure, appropriate vocabulary, and effective transitions in writing

• Group discussions
• Group assignments
• Homework assignments
• In-class presentations
• Monthly individual presentations