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Course Overview

Cactus Language Training

LILA* has teamed up with Cactus Language Training to provide a range of foreign language courses in. Cactus is an award-winning company with a proven reputation for providing high quality foreign language courses in the UK and worldwide. Cactus currently offers evening classes in 25 languages across the UK, tailor-made language training to a wide range of companies and individuals, and language courses in over 200 partner schools worldwide.

Choose from French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish. We offer part time group lessons in the evening, one to one lessons, intensive, survival lessons and much more. This is the perfect opportunity to take on the challenge of learning a new language, or of consolidating and extending what you already know. You can also create your own learning plan with one of our bespoke group or individual language courses. You can come to LILA* or our experienced teachers can visit you at your home or workplace.

Languages

LILA* and Cactus will offer evening foreign language courses in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish. Arabic (Level 1,2), Mandarin (Level 1) and Japanese (Level 1) will also be available from 14th April 2011.

Course Content

All of our courses are carefully structured and designed to cover a wide range of topic areas, grammatical structures and skills. A Cactus Foreign Language Course includes the following elements:

  • Developing and improving your spoken language
  • Building your communicative confidence so you can talk with native speakers
  • Developing your listening and comprehension skills to improve understanding
  • Learning and reviewing the grammatical structures of the language
  • Focusing on language that you can use in real-life situations, both written and spoken
  • Building a base of core vocabulary
  • Working on pronunciation so people will be able to understand what you say
  • Reading practice and comprehension testing

The Teachers

All of our teaching staff are fully qualified and experienced foreign language trainers. They are either native speakers or of native speaker level.

Methodology

Cactus trainers will adopt a 'learner centred' approach to modern language teaching, which enables them to meet your individual needs. Courses cover practice in all 4 skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing; however, you will find the focus of our Cactus Foreign Language Courses is on speaking and listening - the main requirements of today's modern language learner. Teachers will use the target language, activities will be communicative, and the language learnt will be relevant to you.

The right level for you

The courses are offered at a variety of levels. To help you decide which level is right for you, please look at the level descriptions, and, where possible, do the online language test.

Course Details

Course length - 10 weeks
Hours per week - 2 hours
Average Group size - 8

Course Fees

FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSESTART DATESPRICE
FRENCH14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£165
GERMAN14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£165
ITALIAN14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£165
SPANISH14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£175
PORTUGUESE14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£195
TURKISH14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£195
ARABIC (Level 1, 2)14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£195
MANDARIN (Level 1)14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£195
JAPANESE (Level 1)14/04/2011
14/07/2011
13/10/2011
£195

 

Book a Course

To book a course on the Cactus website please click here.

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