LAL Torbay offers a Budget English course several times a year, which costs less than a third of our cheapest General English course.

Why do we do it? This course is part of our teacher-training programme. This programme, for the qualification of Cambridge English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), is a Cambridge University validated course for training teachers who are new to teaching English as a foreign language - and these trainee teachers need practice.

The students who attend the Budget English courses are taught by the new teachers.

The Budget English lessons are taken as either 2 or 4-week courses consisting of 3 hours of lessons a day. Each day the students will have 1 hour with a qualified teacher and 2 hours with teachers-in-training who are closely supervised by a Cambridge University approved trainer. Students MUST attend for the full 3 hours each day.

2012 – Course start Dates

Lessons per week:

   Varying number of lessons, always 15 hours total

Lesson length:

   1 or 2 hours (60 - 120 minutes)

Lesson schedule:

   Monday to Thursday afternoons, Friday mornings

Class size max:

   12 students

Course length:

   2 or 4 weeks

Starting dates:

   2 weeks:  05 Mar, 19 Mar, 30 Apr, 14 May, 3 Sep, 17 Sep, 5 Nov, 19 Nov

   4 weeks:  5 Mar, 30 Apr, 3 Sep, 5 Nov

Levels:

   Minimum Level Pre-intermediate or Upper-intermediate

Sample timetable:

12.50 – 14.50: Two hour lesson with trainee teachers. During this time students will be taught by a number of trainees. After 2 weeks students will have a different group of teachers. The trainers will help the trainees to plan the lessons and will always be in the classroom.

15.00 – 16.00: One hour lesson with a qualified and experienced teacher.

On Fridays lessons are 10.30 to 12.30 with trainee teachers only.

We can only accept students of one of two distinct levels on this course therefore we need to confirm that you have the correct level; all students will be pre-tested before being enrolled on the course. The levels we set for the course are pre-intermediate and upper-intermediate.

We need written confirmation from your client that they are aware that they will be partly taught by teachers-in-training and partly by fully qualified teachers on this course.

Students will be working with a course book that must be returned at the end of the course.

Price to pay LAL:

Enrollment fee: 60 GBP

Accom. placement fee: 35 GBP

Trans. Heatrow Ret. : 100 GBP

2 week course: 90 GBP

4 week course: 180 GBP

2012 Accommodation Prices:

   Host Home half board ( Breakfast + Evening Meal ) per week:

   Shared £105 TOTAL:   2 weeks: 560 GBP /   4 weeks: 860 GBP

   Single £119 TOTAL:    2 weeks: 590 GBP /   4 weeks: 920 GBP

   Hunters Lodge residence:

   Shared £98 TOTAL:   2 weeks: 560 GBP /   4 weeks: 860 GBP

   Single £112 TOTAL:   2 weeks: 590 GBP /   4 weeks: 820 GBP

*Total Prices include enrollment fee + accommodation placement fee + return transfer + course fee + accommodation*