i s h e k e y o y o u r s u c c e s s r i e n c e x p e r e O u English Language Courses Cork Ireland
Welcome o he world of ACET To improve your English skills, you need a professional language organisaion where academic excellence is of prime imporance. Since our foundaion in 1975, we have developed he experise o help you achieve your language learning objecives. We are proud of he inernaional repuaion our courses enjoy and he aenion we devoe o each suden. In selecing ACET, you are invesing in a qualiy service. We guaranee you academic excellence, accommodaion of he highes sandard and an unrivalled suppor service. Our simulaing social programme gives you he opporuniy o make friends wih people from all over he world. Living in an Irish home gives you an unforgeable insigh ino he Irish way of life. Throughou your ime in Cork, you have he suppor of our dedicaed and friendly adminisraion saff who ensure ha your say is enjoyable and rewarding. I look forward o welcoming you and helping you achieve your ambiions. Odile Migieu Founder and CEO of ACET
CONTENTS Qualiy Service 2 Desinaion Ireland 3 The Complee Learning Experience 4-5 Build your Level of English 6-7 General English Courses 8 Afernoon Course Opions 9 Cambridge Examinaion Preparaion Courses 10 Professional Developmen Courses for Teachers 11 Corporae Language Training 12 Gold Programme, Work Experience, Sudy Tours 13 Pahway Universiy Programmes 14 Accommodaion 15 Social Life 16 Unique Feaures 17 Mission Saemen 18 Friends from all over he World 20 Enrolmen Informaion 21 Our experience is he key o your success 1
QACET is recognised by he Naional Qualificaions Auhoriy of Ireland for English Language Teaching Evaluaion and Accrediaion of Qualiy Language Services recognising he highes academic sandards The Inernaional Associaion of Language Cenres is a worldwide group of qualiy independen language schools promoing he 'learning of a language where i is spoken' Markeing English in Ireland is he leading associaion for independen language schools in Ireland and we adhere o is code of pracice ACET holds Bildungsurlaub recogniions for all federal saes in Germany. ACET is an auhorised TOEIC Lisening & Reading es cenre, and he only auhorised TOEIC Speaking & Wriing es cenre in Ireland. ACET is an Auhorised Open Cambridge ESOL examinaion cenre. 2
Sudy English in he ideal desinaion and he friendlies ciy in he world! Grea naural beauy, rugged mounains, blue lakes, sandy beaches and picuresque harbours in a safe environmen Irish people are relaxed, friendly, sponaneous and have a grea love for conversaion Ireland has an inernaionally respeced educaion sysem and Cork is recognised for being a major cenre for hird level educaion Cork is he second ciy of Ireland wih a populaion of 190,000 Cork is a beauiful ciy o wander around wih is remarkable charm and unique amosphere creaed by he 19h cenury narrow lanes and markes Cork people are friendly, alkaive and humorous There are no srangers, only friends you have no me Our experience is he key o your success 3
The complee learning experience 08.45 I s my firs day. I came o he school a 08.45. My hos family showed me he way. Morning Learning English is really enjoyable.the eachers are grea and he use of echnology in he classroom is brillian. 10.45 Break ime! I cha wih all my friends and he saff in English... 4
Lunch Time Lunch ime, pleny of lovely places o have lunch in Cork. 15.00 Afernoon In he afernoon, I can do my homework in he sudy room. ACET has free Cambridge Examinaion pracice oo! 13.30...and I have ime o connec wih my family. In he evening, I join my friends in a Cork pub, where we lisen o live music! Evening 22.00 Our experience is he key o your success 5
Build your Level of English Scan here o ake our online level es... Angela Senior Teacher a ACET BASIC USER 8-10 weeks I Beginner A1/ Elemenary A2 Pre-Inermediae A2-B1 IELTS 3.0-4.0 TOEIC 255-400 TOEFL ibt 30-40 Inerm IELTS TOEIC TOEFL 6
NDEPENDENT USER 8-10 weeks PROFICIENT USER 10-12 weeks ediae B1 4.0-5.5 400-600 ibt 40-60 Upper- Inermediae B2 Cambridge FCE IELTS 5.5-6.5 TOEIC 600-750 TOEFL ibt 60-90 Advanced C1 Cambridge CAE IELTS 6.5-7.5 TOEIC 750-900 TOEFL ibt 90-110 Very Advanced C2 Cambridge CPE IELTS 7.5-9.0 TOEIC 911-990 TOEFL ibt 113-120 These score bands are a guide. The hours of sudy required will vary depending on several facors, such as he learner s background, he inensiy of he sudy, he inclinaions and age of he individuals as well of he amoun of sudy/exposure ouside of lesson imes. Our experience is he key o your success 7
General English Courses STANDARD ENGLISH INTENSIVE ENGLISH TIMETABLE Monday-Friday 09.00-12.55 Monday-Friday 09.00-12.55 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 14.10-16.00 HOURS PER WEEK 20 26 LEVELS A1-C2 (Beginner Very Advanced) A1-C2 (Beginner Very Advanced) GROUP SIZE Average 8-10 (maximum 12) Average 8-10 (maximum 12) STARTING DATES Any Monday Any Monday COURSE LENGTH Any number of weeks Any number of weeks KEY POINTS Dynamic and creaive eachers using up-o-dae eaching echniques Courses are augh in an ineracive and communicaive way Learner-cenred o develop communicaion skills and learning sraegies o increase learner auonomy Progress ess and personal uorial each week Clear learning oucomes in line wih he Council of Europe s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Culural componen o give an insigh ino he Irish culure and way of life 7 levels of English mapped o he CEFR A1 - C2 (Beginner - Very Advanced) 8
Afernoon Course Opions COURSE REFERENCE & NAME TOEIC Examinaion Preparaion IELTS Examinaion Preparaion TOEFL Examinaion Preparaion HOURS PER WEEK 20 +4 20 +4 20 +4 Individual Tuiion 20 + Any number of hours English for he Workplace 20 +6 These afernoon course opions are booked in conjuncion wih a Sandard English Course. Tes of English for Inernaional Communicaion (TOEIC) ACET IS AN AUTHORISED TOEIC EXAMINATION CENTRE Tess your English proficiency in an inernaional working environmen Two ypes of es: Lisening and Reading or Speaking and Wriing Minimum level: B1/Inermediae Inernaional English Language Tesing Sysem (IELTS) Recognised as a language requiremen for enry o a universiy or college in Ireland or Grea Briain Four pars: reading, wriing, lisening and speaking Minimum level: B2/Upper-Inermediae Tes of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL ibt) Four pars: lisening comprehension, speaking, reading and wriing Inerne based Minimum level: B1/Inermediae Individual Tuiion You can choose any number of hours o sui your individual needs and objecives. English for he Workplace Skills needed for communicaion in he world of business Leer wriing, elephone skills, meeings, noe-aking, wriing curriculum viaes and exchanging informaion Minimum level: B1/Inermediae Our experience is he key o your success 9
Cambridge Examinaion Preparaion Courses The bes way o demonsrae your level of English is by obaining an inernaionally recognised qualificaion. ACET is one of he leading schools in Ireland in he preparaion of EFL examinaion candidaes. Our experience is refleced in he consisenly high level of success our cliens have achieved since 1975. Firs Cerificae in English / Cerificae of Advanced English / Cerificae of Proficiency in English TIMETABLE Monday-Friday 09.00-12.55 HOURS PER WEEK 20 LEVELS B1-C2 (Inermediae - Very Advanced) GROUP SIZE Average 8-10 (maximum 12) STARTING DATES Refer o Fees & Daes COURSE LENGTH Refer o Fees & Daes KEY POINTS Five componens (reading, wriing, grammar, lisening and speaking) Teachers are fully rained Cambridge examiners wih many years of experience in examinaion preparaion Supplemenary examinaion pracice You have a personal uorial wih your principal eacher each week o monior and review your progress. ACET offers oher examinaion preparaion courses: KET Key English Tes PET Preliminary English Tes BULATS Business Language Tesing Service TKT Teaching Knowledge Tes You can si your examinaions a ACET as we are an Auhorised Open Cambridge ESOL Examinaion Cenre. 10
Professional Developmen Courses for Overseas Teachers of English ACET is a eacher raining cenre approved by he Naional Qualificaions Auhoriy of Ireland and has over 30 years of experience in eacher raining. The courses provide a balanced programme of mehodology, classroom resourcing, curren heory, culural exposure and language enrichmen. As a eacher of English, you can expec a challenging learning experience which updaes and refreshes your eaching. The course is pracical and provides you wih new aciviies, new skills and new echniques. TIMETABLE Monday-Friday 09.00-12.55 + wo afernoons HOURS PER WEEK 25 GROUP SIZE Average 8-10 (maximum 15) STARTING DATES Refer o Fees & Daes COURSE LENGTH Two Weeks The Professional Developmen Courses for Teachers of English aim o mee your professional needs in all aspecs of English language eaching. You have a choice of hree courses: Refresher Course for Overseas Teachers This course provides pracical aciviies and ideas o use in your own classroom. Teaching Knowledge Tes Course (TKT) This course prepares you for he TKT examinaion wih focus on erminology and mehodology. Especially suiable for newlyqualified eachers. Conen and Language Inegraed Learning Course (CLIL) This course provides funcional, grammaical and lexical componens o help you deliver more effecive CLIL lessons. Afernoon Programme The afernoon sessions complemen he academic componen of he programme. Through a series of visis o places of hisorical ineres as well as lecures and workshops, you gain an overview of he culure, he hisory and he educaion sysem of Ireland. These courses are eligible for Comenius Funding. You can si he TKT and CLIL examinaions a ACET Our experience is he key o your success 11
Corporae Language Training Execuive and Professional Course TIMETABLE Monday-Friday 09.00-12.55 + wo afernoons 14.10-16.30 HOURS PER WEEK 25 hours uiion + 5 hours lunchime LEVELS B2+ (Upper-Inermediae+) GROUP SIZE Average 4 (maximum 6) STARTING DATES Refer o Fees & Daes COURSE LENGTH One Week The Execuive and Professional Course develops he communicaion skills you need o conduc professional asks wih complee confidence. I is highly ineracive and based on exensive use of problem solving, pracical role-plays and realisic case sudies. The course may include: conducing meeings and discussions making presenaions dealing wih facs and figures inerviewing negoiaing echniques managemen syles and leadership describing rends a choice of simulaing opics such as sales and markeing, human resources, qualiy managemen and cross-culural issues During he afernoon, he course focuses on ask-based pracice relaed o he areas covered in he morning. You can supplemen your Execuive and Professional Course wih individual uiion during he free afernoons. Individual Tuiion Individual uiion offers he mos rapid, relevan and cos-effecive form of language raining. To maximise success, your uors can focus on general English or on he language skills you require for your profession or sudies. You can choose any number of hours o sui your specific needs. You can sar any Monday and coninue for any number of weeks. Areas ha can be covered by our exper uors include: English for Markeing English for Banking and Finance English for Docors and Nurses English for he Hoel / Hospialiy Secor English for Aviaion English for Miliary Corporae Training ACET provides ailor-made English language raining o companies. Please conac us a info@corklanguagecenre.ie for a quoe. 12
Gold Programme The Gold Programme is an ineresing language and culural aciviies course developed o sui he over-50s age group. ACET offers a special ailor-made programme combining enjoyable language pracice while discovering Ireland, and in paricular Cork and is culure. The programme is flexible and aims o sui he needs and ineress of he group. The English course focuses on developing pracical communicaion skills boh inside and ouside he classroom. In he relaxed and producive amosphere in class, you develop your skills, increase your vocabulary and become a more confiden speaker. The programme includes a full social programme. Professional Work Experience / Inernship Programme ACET arranges placemens wih suiable companies and you benefi from he opporuniy o improve your English and your career prospecs, as well as your knowledge and experience. You are placed in a company doing business ha is complemenary o your planned career. The work underaken during he placemen is UNPAID and mus be considered as educaional and par of he on-going raining programme. For furher deails please visi our websie. Sudy Tours ACET organises sudy ours for schools and businesses. Please refer o our websie. Our experience is he key o your success 13
Pahway Universiy Programmes TIMETABLE Monday-Friday 09.00-12.55 + wo afernoons 14.10-16.00 HOURS PER WEEK 24 LEVELS A1-C2 (Beginner-Very Advanced) GROUP SIZE Average 8-10 (maximum 12) STARTING DATES Refer o Fees & Daes COURSE LENGTH 6 monhs (January-June) 10 monhs (Sepember-June) ACET offers Undergraduae Pahway Programmes designed for cliens who require supplemenary sudy prior o admission in a hird level insiuion. The courses include inensive raining in English for academic purposes as well as sudy skills and are pahways o universiies in Ireland and he UK. Pahway Universiy Programmes aim o: help increase your range of academic language improve recepive and producive skills build confidence and develop your learning sraegies Universiy Placemen ACET works closely wih a number of Irish universiies and oher hird level insiues. 14
Accommodaion Suden Residence We are proud of our accommodaion qualiy sandards developed over he years. We monior qualiy hrough regular inspecion visis by our experienced Accommodaion Advisors. During your say, you complee evaluaion quesionnaires on your homesay or your aparmen, which help us o ensure he highes sandards are mainained. I is imporan o choose he accommodaion opion which suis your needs and preferences. Wheher you selec he culural experience of living in a homesay or he independence of an aparmen or a hoel, you can be sure he highes sandards are me. You can choose from he following opions: Living in an Irish Home Homesay accommodaion is ideal for you if you wish o immerse yourself in he unique culure of Ireland. Living in an Irish home is an excellen way of improving your English and experiencing everyday life in Ireland in a welcoming and supporive environmen. You say in a good residenial area of Cork, close o a bus roue. You live in a home we have seleced on he basis of a warm friendly amosphere and clean comforable surroundings. Coppinger Cour Homesay You are accommodaed on a half board basis from Monday o Friday and on a full board basis a he weekend. To ensure ha you pracise English, you are he only speaker of your moher ongue placed in your homesay. Living Independenly in an ACET Aparmen If you wan o be more independen, selec one of our comforable modern aparmens. The conemporary aparmen complexes are locaed 10 minues walk from ACET and he ciy cenre. Living in an Inernaional Communiy in a Suden Residence Aparmen You can choose o live in a suden residence aparmen. You have a single room in an aparmen which you share wih oher sudens. Ard Parick Gues Houses and Hoels for Exra Luxury and Flexibiliy ACET has special arrangemens wih gues houses and hoels. We can help you o find a hoel o sui your preferences wihin walking disance of ACET. Our experience is he key o your success 15
Social Life Beyond he Classroom Cork is a welcoming ciy o all is visiors. There is an ongoing programme of enerainmen including he Jazz fesival, he Choral fesival, he Film fesival and many weekend fesivals. You have he opporuniy o experience and familiarise yourself wih Irish culure while in Cork. From radiional Irish pubs o modern European nighclubs, from cosy heares o muliplex cinemas, you can improve your English while enjoying a varied social life. Cork is an ideal locaion for spors enhusiass wheher you are ineresed in fooball, golf, cycling, ennis, sailing, fishing, windsurfing, canoeing or oher spors. ACET organises many social and culural aciviies. You migh wan o learn Irish dancing and pracise your new skills a a radiional Irish dance known as a "céili". You can join our experienced guides on excursions o he beauiful souh and wes, visi Blarney Casle where, according o he legend, he magic sone gives you he gif of eloquence or become a qualified Irish whiskey aser a Jameson Disillery. From barbeques o alks on Irish hisory and weekends in Dublin, here is a choice of simulaing aciviies available every day! 16
Unique Feaures Nearly 40 years experience in eaching English Flexible courses and programmes focusing on individual learning needs Firs-class experienced eachers using modern echnology Grea choice of accommodaion Excellen value for money bu do no ake our word for i. Here is wha some of our cliens have o say: I would recommend ACET o everyone. I really like he school. Everybody is very friendly. My eachers are grea - always encouraging and willing o help. My English has really improved. Ambre - France ACET has really high sandards. My say in Cork exceeded my expecaions. Kaori - Japan My homesay is fanasic. My spoken English is so much beer. I made los of friends from all over he world. Paris - Spain I really enjoyed my homesay. I fel like one of he family. I would love o come back. Jana - Germany Our experience is he key o your success 17
MISSION STATEMENT ACET s main objecives are o provide English Language Training o a level above Inernaional Sandards in a posiive and inclusive clien-cenred environmen, wih a range of suppor services o enable cliens o improve heir English and enjoy heir say in Ireland. All employees of ACET are given he suppor and auhoriy necessary o maximise he level of cusomer saisfacion. ACET embraces he responsibiliy for he social, economic and environmenal impacs of is aciviies. ACET employees use sraegies o develop social responsibiliy and guide he company in a posiive direcion. Pa Coade Direcor / Qualiy Assurance 18
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Friends from all over he world! ACET welcomes cliens of all ages (he average age is 28) and from all over he world. 10% of cliens are from Norhern Europe, 26% from Souhern Europe, 15% from Easern Europe, 24% from Wesern Europe, 12% from Asia, 6% from he Middle Eas and 7% from Lain America. We love ACET! Find us on Follow us on 20
Alber S Enrolmen Informaion Enrolmen Enrol wih one of our parners/represenaives in your counry or complee our easy-o-use enrolmen form on our websie a www.corklanguagecenre.ie/booking Paymen Pay our parner/represenaive in your counry or pay ACET by credi card, PayPal or bank ransfer Confirmaion of Enrolmen You receive your confirmaion wihin 24 hours of receip of your compleed enrolmen form and deposi Glen Ave Glen Ave Grea William O Brien Sree Norh Ring Road The Ave 4 Popes Hill Rahmore Rd Bleasby S Popes Rd Old Youghal Rd Gerald Griffin S Leirim S Shandon C Shandon Richmond Hi l Audley Pl Old Youghal Rd Sidney Park Miliary Hill Wellingon Rd Sain Luke s Cross Sain Luke s Cross John S Leirim S 1 2 York S Summerhill N 3 Popes Quay Shandon Camden Pl MacCurain S S Parick s Quay Penrose Quay Cork S Main S Cork Opera House Paul S S Parick S Cork English Marke Princes S Merchans Quay Shopping Cenre Cook S Cork Sain Lukes Parnell Pl Souh Mall Souh Mall Souh Mall Union Quay Clarion Hoel Cork 1. ACET 2. ACET 3. Coppinger 4. Ard Parick Sullivans Quay Mary S Georges Quay Our experience is he key o your success 21
Our experience is he key o your success ACET is recognised by he Naional Qualificaions Auhoriy of Ireland for English Language Teaching Wellingon House, Wellingon Road, Cork, Ireland Tel: +353 21 4551661. Fax +353 21 4551662 Email: info@corklanguagecenre.ie www.corklanguagecenre.ie