The non-intensive community-oriented course consists of 80 academic hours. Classes are taught twice a week (three hours per session) by a Bulgarian instructor, supplemented by a native speaker whenever possible. The Upper-Intermediate level course, Step 2, covers units 7 through 12 of Oxford’s New Headway Upper-Intermediate book by John and Liz Soars. Class materials include a Student’s Book and a Workbook. Any additional materials can be used at the discretion of the instructors.
The course is designed to consolidate the already acquired students’ knowledge and practical skills as well as to take them to new unexplored areas and develop their skills further by elaborating on grammatical subtleties, introducing new grammatical issues, and incorporating about 1,500 new lexical items. Grammatical areas are treated in greater depth, so that students start to perceive the systems that underlie the language. Headway Upper-Intermediate reinforces all four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing acquired previously by involving learners into a number of realistic and communicative activities. The course aims at increasing learners’ confidence in English and their ability to comprehend as well as use the language efficiently and productively.