A. Listening: To accustom students to the sounds, pronunciation, accent, word-stress, sentence-stress and intonation of the English language and to train them to understand the key points of listening texts, suitable for their level, and answer questions on them.
B. Grammar and Syntax: to help students develop criteria for correct use of the language and to become sensitive to major errors in written or spoken English.
C. Speaking: to train participants to acquire fluency in speaking English and take part in conversations about topics of common interest without mispronunciations or errors in choice of words, sentence-stress, word-stress or intonation, through participating actively in discussions on interesting topics, speak in class impromptu, ask for and give instructions and directions, make short presentations, describe persons, scenes or objects, tell stories, narrate incidents, work in pairs or groups, and play various roles in specific situations (“role play”).
D. Reading: to enable students to read fluently, clearly, and correctly written texts of the level aimed. To read aloud at a normal pace, so as to accustom themselves to the sounds, accent, pronunciation, word-stress, sentence-stress, proper pauses and intonation of the English language. Increased the participants’ reading power by helping them develop the most important reading comprehension skills (skimming, scanning, intensive reading and speed reading), aiming at reading with understanding. Also, Teachers give participants timed reading assignments and regularly ask them to demonstrate their degree of text comprehension of the by answering productive questions, i.e. multiple-choice, ‘true or false’, contextual-reference questions, recognizing synonyms and antonyms, guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words from the context, and finding the main idea.
E. Vocabulary / Dictionary Skills: to enable students to build up a substantial general English vocabulary, learn idioms and use them productively in both speaking and writing and to use English-English dictionaries to obtain useful information.
F. Writing: to train students to express themselves in writing fully, coherently, concisely, correctly and lucidly in an organized manner and without errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, syntax or choice of words and to write short pieces of composition such as descriptions, directions or instructions, narrations; write paragraphs from information contained in maps, tables, charts, diagrams or pictures; compose short dialogues such as telephone conversations; compare objects, persons, countries and write letters of correspondence.