Overview

Available in our Twin English Centre Dublin, students can study for a whole academic year, which is 25 weeks of tuition and 8 weeks of holiday. 

Students have 3 course options to choose from. Morning course options include 20 lessons (15 hours) per week of either General English or Exam Preparation. Afternoon course options are limited to 20 General English lessons per week.  Students who would like a more intensive experience, can choose  English Unlimited which will allow them to combine 2 Academic Year courses for a maximum of 40 lessons (30 hours) per week.

The Academic Year course is a great offering to non-EU students, because they have the right to work part-time while completing their course in Ireland. Our course will help you communicate well in everyday situations and our qualified teachers approach to teaching English ensures that classes are kept interesting. Students have the option to enrol for either morning or afternoon courses leaving plenty of time to work part-time.

Non-European (EU) Work Rights: Non-EU students can work up to 20 hours per week during their course and up to 40 hours on fixed holidays June - September and 15th December to 15th January exclusively. 
You can read the Policies and Procedures for Non-EEA Students here.

General English

Our courses are designed to prepare students for real-life and provide students with the opportunity to improve their overall language skills. All of our classes have a strong focus on communication to help you speak English confidently and clearly. In order to better your fluency and accuracy, you will need to improve all of your key English skills. Our Project Based curriculum will encourage you to learn by doing different projects or tasks with your classmates. Your classwork will include individual and group work, teacher-led discussions, debates, presentations, written homework and listening exercises. Using Project Based learning, we want to help you build 21st-century skills such as working together, creativity and problem-solving, and communication.

We want to make sure that you get the most out of your lessons so our General English course will focus on improving:

• Speaking and Listening
• Pronunciation
• Reading and Writing
• Grammar and Vocabulary

Exam Preparation

A course designed to help you achieve better results. Our Exam Preparation course provides academic development sessions and mock exams to help prepare you for: 

B2 First (formerly Cambridge English: First/ FCE)

C1 Advanced (formerly Cambridge English: Advanced/CAE)  

IELTS (International English Language Testing System)

IELTS is the most popular measure of English ability in the world for those who do not speak English as a native language. 

The better prepared you are for an exam, the more likely you are to succeed. This course will provide you with exam techniques, test-taking strategies, and mock exams so that you can get the results you want. Your teacher will give you feedback and advice to help you with your final exam.

This course will help you to: 

• Focus on improving your fluency, accuracy and confidence in English
• Familiarise yourself with the Academic IELTS exam format while improving your exam technique
• Help you develop a strategy so that you are able to perform to the best of your ability 
• Improve your skills in all four core skills; reading, writing, speaking and listening