LANGUAGE SPECIALISTS INTERNATIONAL, PORTSMOUTH, UK

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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 per week, + 5 hours self-access Intensive Plus General English: 25 hours per week, + 5 hours self-access General English plus Examinations Preparation: 25 hours per week, + 5 hours self-access General English plus One-to-One: 17.5hours group, 5 hours 1:1. General English plus Business English – 12.5 hours General English (maximum group size 12 students), 12.5 hours Executive Minigroup (maximum 4 students), minimum age 25. Executive and Professional Communications courses All Executive programmes are 42 hours Contact Training per week (including optional Accompanied Lunch programmer & Social Evening programmes) 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 £105 per week in non-summer period and £110 per week in Summer period Executive Host Family (including Trainer-accompanied lunch) £270 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 week’s free tuition given for every 10 weeks paid. Fees exclude accommodation. ADULT GENERAL ENGLISH SEP-JUN / JUL-AUG Adult General English: £185/210 Intensive Plus General English: £235/270 General English plus Examinations Preparation: £235/270 General English plus One-to-One: £410/420 50% General English / 50% Individual: £735/735 General English plus Business English £470/470 EXECUTIVE PROGRAMMES ALL YEAR Executive One-to-One £1275 Closed Group programmes: per group of up to 6 people £1900 Executive Open Group – maximum 4 per group £795 Combination Programme: 50% 1:1, 50% Executive Open Group £995
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 Middle Eastern, Asian and South American.
Director	Mr. Peter Gray
Name of contact person for application	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 500 multinational companies, including household names such as Alcatel, Bosch, Lukoil, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Pioneer, Renault, Siemens, 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 among the best facilities of any school of its size in Britain: 48 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, unlimited free Wi-Fi access. LSI also offers a separate Executive Suite within the building, with its own executive coffee-lounge and private study facilities, together with two fully-equipped Presentations Training rooms.

With only three 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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