Theme 1: Identity and Culture

This session will focus on the key vocabulary and language structures relating to friends and family; technology in everyday life; free-time activities; and customs and festivals.

Equal emphasis will be given to all four skills to ensure that students are absolutely able to gain top marks in this theme that can sometimes lend itself to simpler language only.

Theme 2: Local, National, International and Global Areas of Interest

This session will focus on the key vocabulary and language structures relating to home neighbourhoods; social issues; global issues; and travel and tourism.

Equal emphasis will be given to all four skills to ensure that students are completely confident speaking and understanding the local and international contexts of language.

Theme 3: Current and Future Study and Employment

This session will focus on the key vocabulary and language structures relating to school studies; life at school; education post-16; jobs and ambitions.

Equal emphasis will be given to all four skills to ensure that students are completely confident with the present and future demands inherent in this theme.

Mock examinations

We will round off the revision centre by doing full mock exams in all of the four skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing. The purpose of this is for students to build confidence, and to remove the possibility of any nasty surprises in the upcoming exams. Students will also be able to see how much they have progressed over the week, and target their own personal areas for future revision.

Students’ Speaking mocks will be conducted by a teacher who has not taught them before, allowing them to benefit from different feedback to what they usually receive.