Course length:  8 weeks
Hours per week: 20 
Self-study hours per course: 30
Activity:  One afternoon per week
Objectives: 

• Improve your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills
• Equip you with the necessary language skills to survive well in an English university environment
• Read academic texts, write reports and essays, expand vocabulary, perform research, and prepare presentations.
• Learn to communicate in various situations with a degree of fluency and spontaneity typical for native speakers
• Read and understand well authentic materials such as contemporary articles and reports
• Master your pronunciation

Structure:  We will help you reach the course objectives through the introduction and practice of the following language points:

• passive voice in different tenses;
• comparing things, talking about similarities and differences;
• adverbs of degree;
• cause, purpose and result;
• review all different tenses;
• past simple or present perfect;
• defining and non defining relative clauses with who, that, which, whose, where and when;
• talking about the future;
• countable and uncountable nouns;
• -ing forms and infinitives;
• articles;
• should, had better, ought to;
• conditionals;
• if only / I wish + past perfect;
• if and unless
• talking about possibilities – may, might;
• must, can’t;
• modals verbs – obligation, lack of obligation and prohibition;
• phrasal verbs;
• unreal present and future;
• paraphrasing
• descriptive adjectives;
• words used in academic writing;
• collocations related to research;
• word formation;
• compound nouns;
• confused words;
• relative clauses;
• correct pronunciation;