Improving Oral Fluency Program

Do you want to...
• Improve your English listening and speaking skills to be able to communicate effectively?
• Feel confident speaking English with native speakers?
• Feel comfortable making oral presentations?
• Improve your pronunciation?
• Perfect your English to help you get a good job in which you can use your English?

Most students learn English at school with a focus on reading and writing skills. For many students, there are not enough opportunities to engage in English conversation in their own country, and they don’t have the confidence to practice spoken English. Whether you have to use English in your work and want to improve your oral English, you are an English teacher in another country and want to enhance your teaching or practice your oral skills to have general conversations or conduct business in English, Improving Oral Fluency (IOF) gives you the oral skills and practice you need to communicate successfully.
Designed for advanced-level students, the IOF program is offered in 4-, 6- and 10-week sessions, four times a year, and focuses on improving specific oral skills including:
• Pronunciation
• Grammar for Oral Fluency
• Oral Skills Development
Students who do not provide an approved English assessment test score are tested upon arrival and may be advised to attend the Intensive English Program (pages 8 and 9) instead.

Electives
If you are an IOF student enrolled in a 10-week session, you have the opportunity to increase your oral English skills by joining an elective course as part of your weekly program. You may choose from a range of specialized courses in English that focus on a particular interest area. Choices may include:
• Advanced Vocabulary
• American Idioms
• Business English
• English Through Drama
• English Through Film
• English Through Music
• Global Issues
• GRE/GMAT Preparation
• Listening
• Public Speaking

Program Highlights
• 4-, 6- and 10-week intensive sessions
• 24 hours of oral skills development each week
• Offered winter, spring, summer and fall
• Advanced-level English required (minimum TOEFL 450 PBT, 45 iBT; IELTS 4.0; TOEIC 500; or IEP levels 500 or 600)
• Option to take university classes
• Small classes (average 15 students per class)
• Students from many different countries
• Minimum age: 15