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Pre-Intermediate On Campus 12th May 2025 for September main programme intake
Course starts: 12 May 2025Apply now
Pre-Intermediate On Campus 09th June 2025 for October main programme intake
Course starts: 09 June 2025Apply now
Improve your English language skills. Build on academic skills such as taking notes, contributing to seminars, making presentations, handling reading assignments, and writing essays and reports. Reach the correct level of English for your university course.
This course will help you improve your English language and academic skills and develop your knowledge of life at university in the UK. You will build on your existing knowledge of English and develop academic skills such as taking notes, contributing to seminars, making presentations, reading strategies, and writing essays and reports. You'll gain a head start by learning about the University before you start your main course and reach the required level of English to be successfully accepted to the University.
This pre-sessional course uses a variety of teaching methods in order to develop your English skills and prepare you effectively for university study in the UK. You will participate in small group classes, larger group lectures, and small group or individual tutorials enabling you to practise your English with the help from both your teacher and your classmates. You will receive regular feedback on your work and be well supported to develop your English language to your best level. There is also a large bank of extracurricular material that you can use to help you during your independent study time which is available on our Virtual Learning Environment, CANVAS.
There will also be lots of opportunities for you to practise your speaking during the course, as well as group projects which you will take part in, and you will stay in regular contact with your teacher in tutorials and classes.
The typical contact time for this course is 315 hours over 15 weeks. By the end of the course we expect you to have a level of English that is the University of Sunderland equivalent to an IELTS score of 6.0. This is the English language requirement for most University of Sunderland courses.
We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.
This course is for people who do not speak English as a first language to help you improve your English and be successfully accepted to a main course at the University of Sunderland.
We welcome applications from those with an IELTS or equivalent score of 4.5 or above with no individual skill score (speaking, listening, reading and writing) lower than 4. If your level of English is higher than IELTS 4.5 you can study this course and achieve a score 1.5 bands higher than your entry score.
If your IELTS or equivalent score is higher or lower than 4.5, you can choose one of these alternative courses to improve your English language skills:
IELTS 4.0: English for Academic Purposes Pre-sessional Course A
IELTS 5.0: English for Academic Purposes Pre-sessional Course C
IELTS 5.5: English for Academic Purposes Pre-sessional Course D
If you need any help completing your application, please contact our student support team.
The fee for this course is to be confirmed.
This information was correct at the time of publication.