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LANGUAGES
The Regency School provides language courses in English, French, German,
Portuguese, Spanish and other languages, on request.
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‘AD HOC’ COMPANY COURSES
- available in all languages
Group Company Course
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practical language skills for everyday life and work. Students
learn to read and write but the course is focused on active
skills: speaking and listening. |
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Specialist Course
This type of course is suitable for people with a good general
grounding in English (intermediate level) who wish to improve their
specific understanding and use of work-related terms and expressions.
Specific tasks include: speaking on the telephone, social English
with colleagues and customers, meetings, discussions, negotiations,
travel.
Group Refresher Course
Available in all languages, but open only to students at an intermediate
level or above. The course aims to refresh and maintain the student’s
language level. Suitable for students who cannot take part in a
full course but do not wish to lose their language skills.
Organization and teaching
 Classes
have 6 – 8 students at the same language level.
The duration, timetable and number of lessons per week are based
on specific teaching aims and the organizational requirements of
the company.
Courses take place either on the company premises or at the Regency
School.
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Individual Course
All individual courses are tailor-made to the student’s requirements.
Advantages include flexible timetables and greater focus on
the student’s needs.
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STUDENTS JOINING GROUP COURSES AT THE REGENCY SCHOOL
Companies may not wish to create courses "ad hoc" and
may wish
for employees to take part in the regular courses provided by the
Regency School.
STANDARD COURSE
Suitable to all levels, the standard course aims to give students
a basic grounding in the language, in order to properly handle most
everyday situations and to express him/herself with self-assurance
and pertinence. Students will learn to read and write, but he focus
on the course is on active skills: speaking and listening.
English
duration: 9 months – 100 hours
period: October / June
lessons per week: twice a week for 1.5 hours
students: 6/10
timetable: early evening / evening
French – German
duration: 8 months – 90 hours
period: mid October / mid June
lessons per week: twice a week for 1.5 hours
students: 6/10
timetable: lunch-time
GROUP "5"
This course ahs the same contents and same number
of lessons per week as the Standard Course. The difference is
the duration and the smaller group, for more focused study and
a closer relationship to the teacher
English - French – German
duration: 4 months – 45 hours
period: Oct-Feb / Feb-June
lessons per week: twice a week for 1.5 hours
students: 4/6
timetable: early evening / evening
CAMBRIDGE EXAMS
English only
Cambridge University certificates of language ability are recognised
throughout the world as proof of competence in English. There are
four levels: KET - Key English Test, PET - Preliminary English Test, FCE - First Certificate
in English, CAE – Certificate in Advanced English, CPE - Certificate
of Proficiency in English. Each exam tests all four skills - Listening,
Reading, Writing e Speaking – and require classroom work and self-study.
KET/PET
duration: 8 months – 96.5 hours
period: October / May
lessons per week: twice a week for 1.5 hours
students: 6/10
timetable: early evening / evening
FCE - CAE - CPE
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Duration: 8.5 months - 99 hours
period: October / mid June
lessons per week: twice a week for 1.5 hours
students: 6/10
timetable: early evening / evening |
CONVERSATION
Open to students who have reached Regency School level 5, this
course is ideal for those who have little time but want to keep
up their language skills by practising English in an informal, enjoyable
way.
English - French – German
Duration: 45 hours
period: Oct / May
lessons per week: once a week for 1.5 hours
students: 4/6
timetable: early evening / evening
ENGLISH AT WORK - seminars in 'Business' English
ENGLISH AT WORK is for people with a good grounding in general
English, but with difficulties related to the specific terminology
of work, and unable to use business terms accurately. The programme
includes the following subjects:
On the Telephone
Making Conversation
Meetings and Discussions
Getting About (travel)
Entertaining
Giving Presentations
Company Performance
Each subject is dealt with in two sessions (one seminar). The first
is a presentation of specific language and an analysis of the problems
involved. The second is a workshop with the opportunity to use the
language learnt in roleplays and simulations. The course also includes
five 'case-studies' (real or realistic) where the language of the
7 seminars (see above) needs to be used accurately and forcefully.
duration: 9 months – 51 hours (full 60')
period: Oct - June
lessons per week: 3 hours a week (every other week)
students: 4/6
timetable: early evening / evening
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THE E.L.T. SCALE
The Regency School uses the ELT scale to establish a student’s
language level and to monitor progress. |
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Close to Mother Tongue
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A command of the foreign language close to the
command of the student’s own language. |
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Competent and Independent
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P: The student understands practically everything, including
specialist discourse.
A: He/she communicates freely and fluently, with very few
errors. He/she uses idiomatic expressions and a variety of
different types of discourse.
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7
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Very Competent
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P: The student understands nearly everything written and
spoken, including complex texts and discourse. Some difficulty
with specialist language.
A: He/she communicates easily on a range of subjects and
is easy to understand. Despite this, the lack of idiomatic
expressions, the precise and rather formal way of talking,
and some errors, show the student’s foreign origin.
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6
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Fairly Competent
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P: The student often requires spoken language to be rephrased
or paraphrased in order to properly understand what is said.
Almost no ability in specialist language fields.
A: He/she makes grammatical mistakes, chooses the wrong word
or makes errors of pronunciation outside a rather generic
language context.
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Survival threshold
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P: The student is able to understand a mother tongue speaker
in an ordinary work or social situation.
A: He/she can use a range of vocabulary for ordinary every
day situations and is understandable despite pronunciation
and grammatical errors.
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4
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Simple level of communication
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P: The student still finds it difficult to understand a native
speaker in unfamiliar contexts. He/she can read simple texts.
A: He/she makes frequent mistakes but manages to communicate
in simple contexts, stringing some sentences together to make
fairly simple statements.
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3
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Minimum level of communication
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P: The student is able to understand written or spoken English
only if it is simplified.
A: He/she can answer when prompted in a controlled and targeted
fashion. A fair understanding of basic grammatical structures.
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Basic level
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P: The student understands simple phrases such as instructions
and descriptions.
A: He/she uses isolated words, phrases or parts of sentences
without communicating any real information. Insufficient understanding
of grammar
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1
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Beginner
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P: The student recognises some words and common expressions.
A: He/she is unable to use the spoken language.
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Total beginner
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No knowledge of the language. |
P = passive skills (reading and listening)
A = active skills (speaking and writing)
MONITORING PROGRESS
English
This graph will help you understand how many contact hours with
a group are needed to reach a given level of English. The Regency
School uses a 9-tier ELT scale to assess a student’s ability and
to monitor his/her progress. Click on "Levels" to see
more about the ELT scale.
NB After level 5 the graph is less reliable because subjective
factors predominate, i.e. motivation, aptitude, lessons per week,
contact with the language, etc.
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Certified language level and general consultancy
When requested by corporate clients, the Regency
School certifies employees language levels through a test. The
School establishes realistic language aims for each student and
helps the company find the best type of organization for the lessons
and for optimum language performance during the lessons.
To assess the language abilities available in your
company try our language test on-line.
Continuous assessment and reporting
The Regency School uses a powerful, sophisticated
database to obtain real time information on students progress
and participation. This information is provided upon request by
the company together with individual reports responding to the
company’s requirements.
The self-access centre (available for English, French, German
and Italian)
Self-access allows students to increase their contact
hours with the language by self-study, using a variety of additional
teaching materials outside the classroom. The centre is open to
all students (including students who do lessons outside the school)
and includes the following facilities:
- 12 IBM computers with specific teaching programmes
- Language Laboratory
- Listening Centre
- Multimedia books on CD ROM
- Video library in English, French and German
- Simplified reading
- TV via satellite
- English, French and German newspapers and magazines
- INTERNET
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Regency Activities
Regency Activities were created to provide learning opportunities
outside the classroom. During the year, the Regency School organizes
a series of cultural activities, including conferences in English
on a variety of subjects, films in the original language, discussions
of poetry and literature, etc. All students may take part.
Study abroad
The Regency School is able to recommend the best ways to learn
a language abroad (worldwide)..
For more information go to the page headed 'Studying
abroad'.
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