Intensive English

Our student-friendly Language Skills Boston intensive English program will provide you with the skills you need to begin speaking English freely

Our Language Skills Boston Intensive English Program is designed for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students who intend to improve their English rapidly for academic advancement. Students who successfully complete our advanced levels in this program should easily meet the language requirements for college admission in the United States.

The Intensive English Course is our signature program for students who are in the United States with an F-1 visa. In this program, we offer a 20 lessons, including integrating reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, culture, grammar, and pronunciation. This program is the most effective for students who have a clear short-term goal, such as passing a college entrance exam or accomplishing a research project, but who have very limited time to master the required language skills. Our teachers will be there for you to guide you through the stressful-yet-rewarding time before you reach your goal.

The Language Skills Boston Intensive English Course

Class Schedule

The Language Skills Boston Intensive English program includes three courses: integrated core skills, communication skills, and one elective. The integrated core classes highlight the presentation of grammatical and functional language, with the support of a wide range of reading, writing, listening, pronunciation, role playing, and discussion activities. In our communication classes, our teachers set up communication exercises around the grammar and structures that you learn in the integrated core skills class. This class focuses on situations that you are likely to encounter in real life. The elective classes are designed by our creative instructors to explore in-depth culturally rich topics in English. Our instructors are all university-educated professionals with many years of experience in English instruction and many other interesting areas—such as law, history, literature, fine arts, music, economics, politics, fitness and sports.

Our elective course offerings:

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.