Au Pair English

Make friends and improve your English as an Au Pair in Boston with Language Skills

The Au Pair English program is designed to help au pairs living in America make friends, improve their English, and have fun while completing the educational requirement for all Au Pairs. As an au pair, you are required to take 6 credits, which is equal to 80 hours in the class room.

The Language Skills Au Pair English Course

Class Schedule

In the Au Pair English course, you will be able to choose between the integrated core skills and communication skills classes. You may decide to take either class from 9:30am to 11:10am or 11:20am to 1pm, or if your schedule allows both periods.

Topics covered:

Orientation & Placement

Orientation

Before your first class, you are required to attend Orientation. During Orientation, you will have many opportunities to mingle with your new classmates, as well as the Language Skills faculty and staff. You’ll have the chance to explore academic options, campus and student-life activities, government regulations and school rules, the city of Boston and its resources, and our expectations of you as a student. During Orientation, each student will receive a welcome kit, a counseling session with an academic counselor, a student ID card and a placement test.

Placement

Our placement test has a written and a spoken part. The written part is designed to give students and teachers of English a quick way of assessing the approximate level of a student’s knowledge of English grammar and usage. This part takes approximately 60 minutes to complete. The spoken part is designed to assess the student’s approximate level of communication skills. You will be placed into the class level that best suits you based on the results of your placement test.

The placement test is free and cannot be repeated.