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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:
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.
