Direct English

Short course

In 9 Great Newport Street

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Location

    9 great newport street

Writing is important, grammar is essential and reading is necessary, but communicating these skills is what really matters. This is the fundamental idea behind Avalon Direct English. Suitable for: Students

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9 Great Newport Street (London)
WC2H 7JA

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Course programme

Avalon Direct English is unique. It is the force behind Avalon School. In 1993, the founder of Avalon saw a huge and important gap in the ESL sector. Every school in London offered the same type of class, based on the same type of textbook. The only difference was price. Students were missing something. Avalon Direct English was the answer – an audio-lingual method based on speaking and communication. Since 1996, Avalon has taught over five million Avalon Direct English classes. We know what works.

Writing is important, grammar is essential and reading is necessary, but communicating these skills is what really matters. This is the fundamental idea behind Avalon Direct English. Students all around the world are desperate to speak and communicate in English. This is what Avalon Direct English does better than any other method.

This is how it works

The lesson is very simple. The class (no more than 12 students) will learn some grammar, some vocabulary or some phrases. The teacher then asks a series of question from the book based on what the class has just learnt. Each student is asked a question. The student answers immediately. The teacher listens, and corrects all the mistakes. The student then repeats the sentence correctly.

You will talk about yourself, your friends, your life, your job, the world in general, but each student has equal time, and everyone receives correction for their own mistakes. This way you can be sure that everything the teacher explains is useful for YOU… NOW! Students learn from qualified, native English teachers and as they are always speaking to the teacher, they do not continue to make mistakes by working in pairs with another class mate.

‘How do I study Avalon Direct English?’

The timetable is structured so that students who take Avalon Direct English as one of their classes will study two fifty minute sessions (two lessons) each day. The first session is revision. You revise what you learnt yesterday, the week before, the month before. The second session is new material. Everyday you revise and learn new work. This makes the class fast paced and means that you learn very quickly. There are some writing exercises, there are some written questions to be answered, but the majority of the time spent in an Avalon Direct English class, students will be speaking.

This method teaches grammar and it teaches new vocabulary, but the Avalon’s distinction is that we practice these skills by speaking and communicating. This makes classes fun, enjoyable, but also extremely effective. Other schools do not offer this. Try this class and you will see the difference.

Direct English

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