COURSE
English Courses in the UK, USA, Canada and Brazil
Why learn English with St Giles?
St Giles offers you a wide choice of courses to meet your personal needs, whatever your level, age or your interests. Whether you are learning for your career, for higher education, travel or just for fun we have a programme for you.
- General English - short courses to help you build confidence
- Academic - long term courses for your education goals
- Vacation - short courses combining English with leisure
- Career - courses for your professional life
- Platinum Training - tailor-made training for business executives and professionals
- Teacher Training - courses for both native and non-native speakers who wish to teach English as a Second Language.
- Junior Programmes - fun and educational programmes for young learners
- Cactus Foreign Language Courses
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Making Progress
Whatever course you choose, your progress and results are important to us. Find out more about making progress with St Giles.
Test your English level
Use our online English level test to check your current level of English. This will help you to see which courses you can take with us.
Teacher-contact time
All lessons at St Giles are 50 minutes long. Therefore the contact time for courses will be as follows:
- 35 lessons (Platinum Courses) = 29.1 hours
- 30 lessons (Platinum, UFBC) = 25 hours
- 28 lessons = 23.3 hours
- 25 lessons (Platinum Courses) = 20.8 hours
- 22 lessons (San Francisco) = 18.3 hours
- 20 lessons = 16.7 hours
- 15 lessons = 12.5 hours
Level Descriptions
We use the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to determine your English level. There are six levels, ranging from A1 to C2.
For each of these you can download below a description of each level and the learner outcomes for each level. These are things you will be able to do when you have that level of English:
Examination Results
To see the results obtained by students taking recognised English examinations in 2012, click here