University pathway Programs
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Take academically-focused courses to help you improve your English level, and prepare for success at the college or university level.
Speaking Excellence
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Develop strategies for critical thought by delving into controversial issues. Improve use of complex language structure such as irony, problem solving and debate.
- Levels: Intermediate 3, Intermediate 4, Advanced 1
Speaking Dynamics
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Refine your expressive language skills by discussing current events. Advance communicatively through scripting and performing, debating, and use of persuasive language.
- Levels: Intermediate 1 and 2
General English
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Our General Intensive English course is recommended as a first step in language learning. For those just starting out with English, General Intensive English gives you a solid grounding in grammar and you improve your social and functional communication.
General Intensive English is practical and uses everyday situations in which to improve your communicative skills. Cultural situations are learned and students learn a lot of new vocabulary as well as idioms and colloquialisms. It is also a lot of fun.
Why Study the General Intensive English Course in Sydney with ELSIS?
• One to one lesson (Every Friday)
• Great nationality mix (ELSIS is always proud of our great mix of students)
• Flexible timetable (Morning, Afternoon and Evening classes)
• Start every Monday
• Progress test every 6 weeks
Study Tour
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ELSIS can design a high-quality, on or off campus program of English language classes and recreational activities to suit the individual needs of your group. Lessons are especially designed for short-term educational visits with class sizes of 10-15 students. The lessons are interesting and fun, and encourage you to speak in English. They are connected closely with the afternoon activities, so you can apply what you learn in class to real life situations.
Our Study Tour teachers are native English speakers, with University degrees and specialist TESOL qualifications. They are highly qualified and experienced professionals, who provide the highest standards of English language training.
You can stay with our carefully selected Australian homestay families, or we can arrange alternative accommodation such as boarding houses or hotels.
General English
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Our General Intensive English course is recommended as a first step in language learning. For anyone who is starting learning English the course gives a solid foundation in grammar and improves your social and functional communication.
The General Intensive English course is practical and uses everyday situations to enhance your communicative skills. The course uses everyday situations to teach the student vocabulary with idiomatic and colloquial expressions besides being a lot of fun.
Why study the General Intensive English course at ELSIS?
- Private lessons (every Friday)
- Great nationality mix (ELSIS is proud of its mix of nationalities)
- Flexible timetable (Morning, afternoon and evening classes)
- Start of new classes every Monday
- Progress test every 6 weeks
English
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Our General English course teaches all the skills you need to be highly competent in the English language. We make sure all your skills are developed to a high level and we continuously check that you are improving well. Our teachers work hard to keep your English improving as fast as possible. These classes are fun and interactive, with excellent English and lifelong friends being common results.
Pronunciation & Fluency
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This course is an intense and personalised speaking correction course to help you sound more like a native speaker. It is a full-time focused class that re-trains the way you speak English. We teach pronunciation
and fluency skills using a unique teaching method only available at ABILITY English. We give our teachers specialised training in how to analyse your personal speech problems and intensively re-train your speech
patterns. The method trains you to build new muscle memory so that your brain and emotions connect better to the English language.
Course Features
- Learn how to speak English like a native speaker
- Unique pronunciation teaching method, only available at ABILITY English
- Intensive speaking training
- Personalised diagnosis of your speaking problems
- Builds confidence & fluency
- Smaller class sizes for personal attention
- Builds vocabulary for everyday situations
- Improves listening
- Use of mouth model to clearly demonstrate corrections needed
- Intensive error correction & strong training in self-correction techniques
Survivor English
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You may feel afraid or shy speaking with locals, so in this course we teach you how to overcome your fears and connect. Every day we teach you practical communication skills with lots of detailed feedback from your teacher, so you
are more confidently prepared to manage and control real-life situations that challenge you. We give you opportunities to practise common, real-life communication using the appropriate language with English speakers in a variety of environments including workplace. You will also be able to enhance your interview skills.
Course Features
- Regular speaking practice in real situations
- Learn how to speak like a native speaker
- Highly interactive sociable classes
- Learn how to interact with others in workplace
- Builds your confidence with native speakers
- Builds intercultural communication skills
- Experienced teachers giving detailed feedback
- Enhance your interview skills
- Only available at ABILITY English
General English Plus
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If you want English learning that takes you quickly towards a focused goal, this course is the best option for you. This course is an option at the Intermediate and Upper Intermediate level of English, and helps you succeed better in IELTS
Test Preparation, Cambridge Test Preparation and EAP courses. This is the perfect course if you have academic goals and like to be pushed to study hard for better results. ABILITY English won the 2011 English Australia
Innovation Award for this course because we teach General English in different ways for different types of students.
Course Features
- Innovative award-winning course
- Develops all English language skills strongly
- Serious teaching style
- Motivates students to develop academic skills
- Prepares for study & work goals
- Trains you to think critically
- Weekly testing & teacher counselling help you to improve your English faster
