INTO Academic English and Essential English Summer courses

Academic English

This intensive course of five or ten weeks, 21 hours per week, focuses on developing and consolidating the academic language and study skills of students preparing to enter the INTO Foundation programme in September.

Course content

The academic language and study skills modules focus on:

• academic listening and note-taking;

• academic writing;

• oral presentations;

• seminar discussions;

• academic reading and critical analysis of text;

• summarising;

• research and use of library and online resources.

In addition students spend class time working on on language development which focuses on improving:

• grammar;

• vocabulary;

• pronunciation;

• the four skills.

Course outcomes

Assuming students have met the academic entry requirements, successful completion of the course means that students can progress to the INTO Foundation programme without the need to take the IELTS exam. Further information is available from the INTO Admissions office.

Essential English

In the summer we offer short intensive Essential English courses of 20 hours per week, lasting either five or ten weeks. The courses are designed to improve general English proficiency in all skills, whether for personal interest, future academic study or to enhance career prospects.

 

Course content

• Language development focuses on developing students’ formal language awareness of grammar and vocabulary;

• topic-based skills lessons focus on developing listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through the study of a variety of topics about different aspects of British life and culture, with opportunities to attend talks given by visiting speakers;

• focus on fluency classes are designed to improve students’ spoken fluency and consist of a variety of communicative activities and tasks.

 

Course outcomes

• Enhanced level of accuracy and fluency in general English usage;

• progression onto further study of Academic English at INTO Scotland.

Social programme

A key feature of the course is the full social programme (at extra cost), which offers a series of organised events and activities to introduce students to the rich cultural life of Scotland and especially Glasgow. There is a team of social co-ordinators, many of them students from Caledonian University, whose job it is to run the social programme. Great emphasis is placed on students enjoying their time in Glasgow and making full use of every opportunity to socialise with a wide range of different nationalities. The summer social programme typically consists of three evening activities per week (for example: sports night, film night, story night) and a weekly whole-day excursion to such places of interest as Edinburgh, Ayr or Stirling or to popular tourist destinations such as Rothesay or Loch Lomond.