If your answer is yes, consider that Stamford International University offers an Intensive English Language Program which we guarantee will improve your wife’s English!
We offer 24 hours a week of instruction from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday to Thursday. Our program runs the length of Stamford’s fourteen week trimester. This Intensive English Language course was previously designed to help prospective university students gain the language skills necessary for university work. Lately, however, more and more people have been coming to us just to improve their English skills.
We have had Buddhist monks and Japanese nuns as students and we have attracted several businessmen and businesswomen from Thailand (and from other countries) who needed better English skills for their work. This term we have half a dozen “non-traditional” students in our program. These include several people from Huahin who just wanted to speak, read and write better English.
Our IELP classes are taught by four fully qualified native speakers of English. Our teachers are not “back-packers!” They all have two or more university degrees and/or TESOL certificates. All are professional teachers with years of experience teaching English here in Thailand and in other Asian countries. Our program offers classes in listening & conversation, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar and academic preparation.
At the end of the term, successful students receive a certificate of completion. We also send out a written report on student progress at mid-term and a final report at the end of the term. Our next term begins in mid-October so there is plenty of time to register.
For further information, please email me: vtcje@sover.net. I am happy to chat with prospective students (or their husbands) anytime!
Charles Emond, BA, MA, MAT
Head of Department,
Stamford Intensive English Language Program
BBC"s Word in the News
BBC's
Learning English is a very helpful site for increasing one's vocabulary in English through daily usage of the language.
Many articles and top stories are available in this section with some kind of what may be called as an "extra feature".
An example is that today's news features the following article:
An antique dealer on New York's Madison Avenue, is claiming a million dollars in damages from 4 homeless people. They've been sheltering outside his shop and he wants them stopped from coming any nearer than 100 feet of it. Guto Harri reports from New York:
The contrast could hardly be starker. Inside Karl Kemp and Associates, a pair of cast iron candlesticks can cost you almost seven-thousand dollars. Outside, an aging, bearded man lies hunched up above an air vent, struggling to keep warm in freezing temperatures. At times he's joined by three others.
The lawsuit, filed this week names them as John Doe, Jane Doe, Bob Doe and John Smith and accuses them of sleeping on the sidewalk, consuming alcohol, urinating and spitting. Karl Kemp says he has nothing against them and would like to see them put up in a shelter twenty blocks away. But he's concerned that customers are being put off by their presence.
Repeated complaints to police have achieved nothing, but an injunction would allow the authorities to move them on. The claim for a million dollars in damages was apparently necessary for technical legal reasons and there's no expectations of that aspect of the action being enforced.
Here in this article some words are taken up and then they are explained in teh context.
An example would be:
The contrast could hardly be starkerThe differences between the people or things that are being compared could not be clearer, more obvious, more opposite
hunched upcrouched, bent down and forwards so that your back is curved.
In this way the learning is made interesting and informative as well.
The
words in the news section is indeed a very educative section and a must read.
1 comment:
Good. Can I send my fiance?
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