English Courses in Canada, in Toronto

The course consists of the 20 morning classes plus 20 afternoon specialised elective lessons per week, allowing students to maximise their study day and develop a wide variety of skills. Our General English Super Intensive course covers the key language learning areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening, using one-to-one tutorials and regular progress tests to respond to the student’s individual learning needs. These electives are: academic speaking and writing, exam skills, confident speaking, English for journalism... among many others.

Our English language Academic Semester courses in Kaplan Vancouver are five-month English courses that aim to take you from your current level of English up to a very high level of fluency. This course has 20 hours of classes per week. Immerse yourself in the English language, and spend a year studying and getting to know a new location and culture. The course is an effective way to increase your fluency, and you will be helped by our exclusive and specially designed study materials.

Our General English program is ideal for all English language learners, from absolute beginners to advanced proficiency. Classes cover everything from reading and writing to speaking and listening, as well as vocabulary, idioms, grammar, and pronunciation. Our outstanding teachers and small class sizes create an optimal learning environment. New students can start any Monday!

This is the most popular English language course at CES Toronto. The Standard General English Language Course takes place every morning from Monday to Friday. English lessons concentrate on building your knowledge of the English language, focusing primarily on helping you increase your vocabulary and improve your grammar so that you attain the levels of accuracy you require. Lessons also work on improving your overall communicative proficiency and fluency, focusing on the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. In addition to this, you will work on specific pronunciation difficulties and expand the range of language you use in real-life situations.

Our foundation program offers a comprehensive communicative approach to learning English. The objective is to rapidly improve your English fluency through the development of the four essential language skills - speaking, listening, reading and writing. The mornings (periods 1 to 4) focus on developing core English skills in language structure and oral communication.

This intensive ESL program is designed for students who wish to cooperatively improve both their practical English speaking and grammar and writing skills. In the morning, students will experience a wide range of practical, real-life activities applicable to many social situations intended to maximize vocal interaction. Teachers focus on accuracy, fluency, pronunciation, and meaningful communication, including body language and voice tone. In the afternoon, students focus on sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation at all levels to help support their speaking and to gain confidence and accuracy when writing. A variety of activities are utilized including essays, free writing, videos, paragraph construction, and common error correction.

This program is designed for students interested in improving their ability to speak and communicate in the English language. Students will improve their linguistic and strategic conversational skills, while at the same time improving their pronunciation. Students also learn about North American culture and social customs to assist them in learning how and when to say the right thing.

On our Combination Course, you will follow the Standard Course in the mornings and have two afternoons of private individual lessons. These are designed to meet your individual requirements and give you the perfect opportunity to work on specific language areas of your choice with your own teacher. In advance of your course or during your first individual lesson, you will complete a Needs Analysis form with your teacher, in which you can identify particular areas to work on. This helps your teacher to plan your programme according to your learning needs, and ensures you get the maximum benefit from your lessons. There are 25 lessons per week; each class is 50 minutes long.

Our ESL classes are based on a unique UMC Model that maximizes student-teacher interaction and communicative learning when studying English. Designed and created in UMC, our unique techniques and activities used in the classroom are designed to develop both fluency AND accuracy with the ultimate goal of language production. Each lesson is allocated to different skills such as listening strategies, vocabulary development, reading, writing skills, pronunciation, fluency improvement and so on. That maximizes our 4-week terms and allows you to focus on the core skills you need to become proficient. UMC has official start dates every 4 weeks in Toronto.

CLLC’s Semi Intensive Program gives students flexibility to study 15 hours per week (20 lessons/ week) of quality English language instruction. Students can choose from Reading & Writing, Listening & Speaking, IELTS Preparation or Business English as their primary class while studying the Semi Intensive Program.