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Address 1-13 Lord Montgomery Way
Portsmouth PO1 2AH
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 (0)2392 291811
Fax +44 (0)2392 750435
E-mail address contact@lsi-international.co.uk
Type of courses Adult General English

Adult General English: 17.5 hours (60 mins) per week, + 5 hours self-access
Intensive Plus General English: 25 hours (60 mins) per week, + 5 hours self-access
General English plus Examinations Preparation: 25 hours (60 mins) per week, + 5 hours self-access
General English plus One-to-One: 17.5hours group, 5 hours 1:1

General English plus Business English

All Executive programmes are 32.5 hours Contact Training per week
Executive One-to-One
Closed Group programmes
Executive Open Group – maximum 4 per group
Combination Programme: 50% 1:1, 50% Executive Open Group

Level of courses Adult General English
  • from Elementary to Advanced (CPE)
    Executive courses
  • from Lower Intermediate to Advanced
    Beginners
    Elementary accepted on One-to-One
  • Work Experience / Internship programme All placement Candidates are required to have an English Language level of at least Upper Intermediate (IELTS band 6.0) before starting their placement. In most cases, this will mean following an Intensive General English course of at least four weeks
  • Examinations offered I.E.L.T.S. (LSI is a testing centre)
    Date of commencement Any Monday throughout year
    Adult General English: where Monday is Bank Holiday, courses start on Tuesday
    Class size Adult General English
  • Maximum 12 (10 on Exams and Intensive elements), average 8
    Executive courses
  • Open Group courses: Maximum 4
  • Closed Group courses: Maximum 6
  • Student accommodation Standard and Executive Host Families (highly recommended)
    University Hall of Residence: self-catering or half-board (Summer only)
    Flat/House rental

    Adult and Executive Courses
    Standard Family, single room half-board £90 per week in non-summer period and £95 per week in Summer period
    Executive Host Family (including Trainer-accompanied lunch) £215 per week
    Hall of Residence from £185 per week
    Apartment/House from £250 to £500 per week

    Fees All courses carry a Registration Fee of £60.
    Fees are shown per week. On all Adult General courses one weeks free tuition given for every 10 weeks paid. Fees exclude accommodation.

    ADULT GENERAL ENGLISH
    SEP-JUN / JUL-AUG

    Adult General English: £136/£160
    Intensive Plus General English: £175/£199
    General English plus Examinations Preparation: £175/£199
    General English plus One-to-One: £341/£358
    General English plus Business English £375/£375

    EXECUTIVE PROGRAMMES
    ALL YEAR

    Executive One-to-One £1200
    Closed Group programmes: per group of up to 6 people £1780
    Executive Open Group – maximum 4 per group £750
    Combination Programme: 50% 1:1, 50% Executive Open Group £950

    Admission requirements Completed registration form & payment of Registration Fee
    Minimum Ages:
  • Adult General English: 18
  • Executive Programmes: 25
  • Work Experience / Internship programme: over 18, and candidates over 20 are preferred
  • Student profile Adult General English: average age around 25, young undergraduates/graduates/professionals
    Key nationalities: Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arab, Russian
    Executive: Average age 35-45, middle/senior management from multinational companies/governments
    Key nationalities: all Western European plus Japanese and South American.
    Director Mr. Peter Gray
    Name of contact
    person for application
    Ms. Lisa Marsh
    Welfare and Accommodation Manager


     


    About the Courses


    All courses are designed to be stimulating, focused, enjoyable and immediately useful.

    Adult General English courses:

    Flexible and fun, they combine attention to structure and grammar with an emphasis on communication skills and fluency. A wide range of the most modern techniques is used to ensure maximum progress in all areas. Exam courses are taught by accredited examiners. Books and materials are provided free of charge, and all students have free access to the schools excellent Self-Access Centre outside of class hours. A lively and varied social programme ensures that students integrate rapidly and quickly make friends of other nationalities, further improving their progress in the English language.

    Executive Programmes:

    LSI carries out training for over 350 multinational companies, including household names such as Alcatel, Alstom, Anderson consulting, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Pioneer, Shell.

    Trainers are specialists, mainly with business/technical or financial experience. Areas focused on include language and strategies for meetings, negotiating tactics and language, professional presentation skills in English, business telephoning.

    Specialist courses are available for finance, pharmaceuticals, sales and marketing, military applications, telecommunications, insurance, human resources, law and engineering/technical English. Executives have their own stimulating extra-curricular social and cultural programme available.


    About the School


    LSI owns its own superb, purpose-built premises in the centre of Portsmouth, one of the most attractive and historically interesting cities in the South of England.

    The school has possibly the best facilities of any school of its size in Britain: 45 beautifully-decorated and furnished , light, airy classrooms; student Cafeteria and separate student lounge with snooker, pool, table tennis, TV and video; excellent self-access centre with video-points, listening room, language laboratory, computer/CD-Rom facilities with access to the Internet and the World Wide Web.

    LSI also offers a separate Executive Suite within the building, with its own executive coffee-lounge and private study facilities, together with a fully-equipped Presentations Training room.

    With only two language schools in a city of 200,000, we are also able to guarantee an exceptionally high quality of host families. Portsmouth has a lively and cosmopolitan atmosphere, being an important ferry port and University city: excellent night-life, a wide range of restaurants, discos, pubs and music venues to suit every taste and pocket, and with first-class sports facilities: tennis, swimming, gymnasium, multi-sports centre, squash, sailing and windsurfing.

    The city is just 8o minutes from London by fast train, and 1 ½ hours from Heathrow or Gatwick airports, with excellent road and rail connections to all the other major cities and places of interest in the South.



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