Course Description
This intensive 30-hour course enables professionals from healthcare areas (Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Radiography, Dietetics, Optometry, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Speech Pathology, and Veterinary Science) to gain the English language skills needed to work as a healthcare professional and prepares for the OET examination. The comprehensive course puts equal weight on reading, writing, listening, speaking and test taking strategies whilst supporting each skills-based lesson with activities designed to enhance vocabulary and grammar language systems. In addition, it focuses on providing students with the skills required to address the questions and tasks accurately and efficiently. In addition to the 30 contact hours in the classroom, students get support on practice tests outside of teaching. Teaching, therefore, focuses on providing students with the language, grammar and test-taking strategies required for the OET exam while the practice tests allow students to put into practice the knowledge and skills acquired in class.
Course Objectives
- Recognize and overcome challenges presented in the OET exam
- Be prepared for the mechanics of the OET exam, e.g., time allotted, format and order of questions.
- To learn and use listening techniques such as listening for gist, detail, purpose, and opinion for the listening sub-test
- Understand a variety of different healthcare text types
- To develop reading skills and techniques for the exam including skimming and scanning texts at high speed, reading for detail, and reading for gist
- To develop letter-writing strategies and exam strategies such as select, organise, transformfor the writing sub-test
- To learn techniques for the speaking sub-test and to improve and develop your fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, and confidence to succeed in the exam
- To develop and practise advanced English grammar and gain confidence when using it, particularly for the writing sub-test
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Teaching Philosophy:
To help students improve the level of their English, we use the Communicative Approach to teaching. Students use English during the lessons to learn English. Students are expected to work together and participate in class activities. They are asked to work out rules for themselves and encouraged to become active learners. Teachers choose the classroom activity to suit the needs of students and the aims of the student. As a result, lessons may include audiovisual materials, lessons, role plays, essay writings, individual and group discussions, language games and practice tests.
North Star Management Consultancy delivers the OET Course over 10 sessions of 3 Hours each (A Total of 30 Hours)
Course Plan
- Detail Introduction to All Modules & Assessment Criteria
- Speaking Role Play I – (Greetings, Introduction, Open Ended Questions, Taking History, Diagnosis)
- Speaking Role Play II – (Management, Reassurance, Dealing Tough Patients, Checking Understanding, Signposting, Breaking Bad News, Persuasion, Ending)
- Writing Task I – (Purpose, Content, Conciseness & Clarity)
- Writing Task II – (Genre & Style, Organization & Layout)
- Writing Task III – (Resources of Grammar & Sentence Structures)
- Reading I – (Part A – Text Types, Strategical & Speed Reading, Scanning & Skimming)
- Reading II – (Part B & C – Understanding Gist & Main Points, Focusing on Specific Content & Analyzing the Paragraphs)
- Listening I – (Note Writing Technique, Active Listening, Quick Scan Technique)
- Listening II – (Elimination Technique, Approach Style, Gathering Specific Information, Speaker’s Attitude, Inferred & Direct Meaning)
Remarks:
- No more than 14 Participants are allowed in the same Class.
- Exam Results are based on attention and contribution to class discussions and assignments.
- Absences from class will negatively affect your grade in the main exam, since being absent for more than 3 sessions out of the 10 Sessions that compose the course will disqualify you from getting Attendance Certificate.
Course Fees: K.D 100
