English Courses in Toronto, Canada

World Life Education Center, Toronto:
World Life Education Center is an innovative school, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, aimed at a diverse audience seeking to learn English in a native English speaking country. We cater to students from within Canada as well as international students. World Life Education Center is here to develop quality English educational services to meet the needs of a diverse student population. By placing its students in an ideal learning environment and providing them with the proper structure and exposure, students at World Life Education Center will gain the expertise in the English language enabling them a successful academic life and career in an English speaking country. World Life Education Center is a part of our founder's vision to establish a system for the education of adult and adolescent English language learners that provides high quality language and literacy services for this linguistically and culturally diverse population.

Intensive Integrated English Program
This course has a total of 8 Levels

- Beginners 1 and 2
- Elementary 1 and 2
- Intermediate 1 and 2
- Advanced 1 and 2

A Placement test will be conducted prior to the course to gauge the appropriate level of the student.

This course offers integrated skills with an emphasis on improving English proficiency and understanding of Canadian culture. It includes continued practice in listening, speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary building, grammar, reading, writing and learning strategies. It also includes using computer technology and community resources. Students use various activities to practice English conversation including listening tasks, role plays, and discussion. Practical reading and writing tasks and vocabulary studies are presented as well.

Intensive Integrated English Plus
This program focuses on the speaking and writing aspects.


This course will give you the opportunity to do extra 10 hours per week.

Phonology:

This option gives learners a good 'technical' basis for improving their pronunciation. It will focus on the following aspects of phonology:

- Study of the 'points of articulation' for vowels, diphthongs and consonants
- Work on stressed and unstressed syllables and words in sentences
- Linking words together
- Spelling and pronunciation 'rules'
- Sentence intonation


This course will give you the opportunity to do extra 10 hours per week.

Phonology:

Pronunciation – Twice a week - 4 hours per week

This option gives learners a good 'technical' basis for improving their pronunciation of Standard British or American English. It will focus on the following aspects of phonology:

- Study of the 'points of articulation' for vowels, diphthongs and consonants
- Work on stressed and unstressed syllables and words in sentences
- Linking words together
- Spelling and pronunciation 'rules'
- Sentence intonation

Conversation:

The English Conversation course is designed for Elementary to advanced English language level participants to help them learn how to organize their thoughts and converse in a natural way. This course is customized to match your current level of verbal communication skills and business language needs with a focus on practical conversation.

Academic Writing:

Improving your writing skills to contribute to your education and employment- Academic Writing is a course designed to help you acquire the writing skills you will need in your academic career. This course will help you learn to write clearly, persuasively, and effectively. It will also teach you the fundamentals of writing a research paper.

Aptitude Test Preparation
We prepare our students for various aptitude tests, enabling them to write the exams with confidence. The following are some of the aptitude tests we help students prepare for:

- TOEFL
- TOEIC
- IELTS
- SAT
- GRE
- GMAT

Business English Certificates
The Business English Certificates (BEC) are internationally recognised qualifications that show employers your skills for using English in the workplace. BEC is an ideal English language exam if you are preparing for a career in business. There are three different levels of BEC: BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher.

Study Tour Program
The Study Tour Program begins with Pre-Tour English instruction for a special purpose. The program participants will be provided with the vocabulary, definitions, history and culture of the various Canadian locations, events and activities they will be visiting. The pre-tour English instruction will prepare tour participants to understand and communicate in English during these events and tours.

The Study Tour Program consists of 10 to 15 students per group.

This Study Tour group program can be structured for any industry group: media, accounting, education, government, mining, oil and gas, forestry, hydro sun or wind power generation, transportation, medicine, dentistry, fitness or any niche market place for technology transfers, education, sales or joint ventures.

University Bridge Program
The UBP curriculum has been designed to meet the needs for English for Academic Purposes and future needs for Education for Professional purposes. The curriculum, has the objectives derived from the needs analysis. The curriculum is outlined to provide ESL or English services in reading, listening, writing, and speaking to students whose native language is not English in order to give them the opportunity to enroll in the university of their choice.

The program also gives extra support by providing foundation courses in the areas of Mathematics, Sciences, Business, Economics, and Social Sciences.

Outline:

• Strategies for Academic Success
• Integrated Skills- Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
• Use effective self-organizational strategies
• Demonstrate information literacy skills
• Develop text attack skills
• Develop vocabulary attack skills
• Make use of language features to understand texts
• Distinguish between facts and opinions
• Demonstrate understanding of nonlinear information: graphs, charts, tables, Tables, diagrams and maps
• Exploit features of academic texts
• Carry out various stages of writing process
• Write multi-paragraph texts which contain logical, coherent and cohesive development Ideas
• Note Taking
• Contextualize spoken text
• Establish content
• Interact effectively in social, classroom/academic and professional exchanges, conversations and discussions
• Use language features appropriate to text type, purpose and audience
• Use communicative public speaking techniques and conventions
• Describe narrative information from graphs and tables
• Use effective interview skills in the role of interviewer/interviewee

Academic English
A comprehensive and stimulating Foundation Course for overseas and local students who wish to upgrade their Academic Skills in English Language and Literature.

Tutorials for TDSB and IP programs
This tutorial is designed to support the high school students in all areas of academic gaps. We provide study skills support along with free counseling. The main objective of our program is to conduct a needs assessment, identify the learning gaps, design a program that will be able to bridge the gap and enable the student to excel academically.