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Percentage of students that pass the exams:
Courses Organisation:
- Standardised - 2 times in a week by 2 hours
- Intensive - 2 times in a week by 3 three lesson hours or 3 times weekly by 2 two lesson hours
- Supper intensive - four times by 2 lesson hours weekly
- Weekends - saturdays and sundays 2 times by 2 lesson hours or saturdays 4 four lesson hours
- Time table for Individual lessons are set up individually
Lesson hours
Methods of teaching:
- visual
- conversation
- analysis of emitted/transmitted TV programmes
- listening and comprehension
- pure and detailed grammar
- sentences and structural analysis reading proof abilities and speaking( as major aspect)
- Proper usage of vocabularies, tenses, prepositions, phrases, ( Callan's methods)
Number of people in a group:
Prices:
- 48 lesson hours for children/kids - 540 zł
- students - percentage bonuses
- adults - 680 zł
- legal english (48 lesson hours) - 800 zł
- companies(48 full hours/clock hours) -900 zł
- individual lessons - 1 full hour 65 zł
- banking transactions in English (48 lesson hours) -750 zł
Does the school offer rebates:
- Special rebates for students
- Special rebates for those that register for one full year
Lecturers:
- tutors
- Native speakers from countries where the language is mother tongue
- professors
- PhD holders in Education
- graduates with cultivated talents
Additional didactic activities:
- Film Projections
- conversation clubs
- debating societies
- excursions to realities
Detailed descriptions of the levels
The descriptions below are a guide to the level of ability and
competence in English of which students should be capable having
completed a course at Acitve School .There are eight levels from
beginner to proficiency.In Active School, the beginner and
elementary levels are combined . Certificates are only issued to
students who have completed a course and scores at least 80%
during the trial test at the end of the course.
This high score demand is to give guarantee that during the
course, students have made absolute use of the time spent during
the course. Besides, it is one of the objectives of the
school that after graduating in a specific level from Active
School, the student should be able to pass any exam in that
language in which he/she followed the course in this school;
irrespective of that in which country he/she will take the exam.
Our courses are not only general english but as well economic,
business, banking, medical, electronical, etc and are fully
integrated to give students practice in all four skills (reading,
writing, speaking and listening) and exposure to the features of
English pronunciation,grammar,functions and vocabulary.
Level A:Beginner and Elementary:
The student has attended an integrated course which covered the
basic features of the language;he has gained a command of,
simple everyday situations and can express needs and deires in
written and spoken English. He is is ready to take a course which
will prepare him for the KEY English test.
Level B:Pre-Intermediate :
The student who has successfully completed this stage has reached
the Council of Europe's Waystage specifications.He is able to
meet his most urgent communication needs, to extract factual
information from short texts, write simple messages messages and
letters, understand public announcements and phone information
and survive as tourists. The student will have some, although
limited, capability to communicate in unfamiliar situations.
Level C: Intermediate
The student who has successfully completed this stage is now
ready to take the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET). He is
able to understand public notices,signs and short factual texts,
give information and express opinions in writing, understand
short dialogues and have general conversations.
Level D: Upper Intermediate
The student who has successfully completed this stage has reached
the Council of Europe's Threshold specifications and is able to
survive in basic social and work situations. Although he is able
to express opinoins, attitudes, moods and wishes, he will
still have difficulty with unpredictable and unfamiliar situations.
He has a passive familiarity of more complex structures and idiomatic
use of English, but at times these may cause considerable difficulty
and confusion.
Level E : First Certificate
The student who has successfully completed this stage will have
no difficulty in living in an English speaking environment and
is ready to take the Cambridge First Certificate
According to the Council of Europe's specifications the student
would be classed as an Independent User. He has encountered all
the main structures of the language and is able to handle these
with some confidence, demonstrating a wide range of vocabulary
and the use of appropriate communicative strategies in a variety
of social stuations. Written work will be competent though will
still show inaccuracies.
Level P1 : Advanced
The student who has successfully completed this stage will have
no difficulty in both living and working in an English speaking
environment and is ready to take the Cambridge Advanced English
exam. The learner, who has reached this level will have a sound
theoretical knowledge of the spoken and written features of the
language as well as an understanding of style, register and
appropriateness. He will be able to read authentic texts of
various kinds, to write with an awareness of the audience and to
interact effectively in most situations except for those of a
high specialised nature. However, if well prepared by the teachers,
such exception should not exist.
Level P2 : Proficiency
In this level,a minimum of twelve specified books should be read
and analysed in a literature style.The student should have total
command to talk about topics in different fields of discipline
irrespective of the subject from which the topic or material is obtained.
Analyse international (different categories of) magazines and difficult topics without
difficulty. The student has a level of spoken and written English
of near native ability: is able to display a wide range of
structure, vocabulary and idiomatic usage: has a good appreciation
of the features of English pronunciation.Contributes with ease in
all contexts (formal and informal) and would have no difficulty
in working in an English speaking environment. This is recognised
as the entrance requirement by a growing number of British Universties
and other English speaking Universties in the world. It will not
be accepted if exam malpractices are noticed in a particular exam
year.