Excellent TOEIC Score

One of the students who took our last TOEIC course recieved their test results last week and received the excellent score of 960. They said that our TOEIC course with Sam teaching was a great help to them and that it helped them to get this score.
Our TOEIC course is a a two week course to prepare students for what to expect in the the test and lots of handy exams tips and techniques.
The TOEIC course has a maximum score of 990, so our student's score was almost perfect. We offer our congratulations to her.
The next TOEIC course starts next week, with the next public test on the 5th of August, we hope we can achieve the same excellent results again.

Now on Facebook

JET English College now has a Facebook page, find us on Facebook to keep up to date with news and information about our school and what is happening.
Other things happening this week are that we have started a new business course and also the TOEIC Course. We have a TOEIC test happening here next Friday on the 8th of July. For more information about our courses please feel free to contact us

Photos of our new office

As promised, here are some photos of our new school

This is the entrance foyer looking down towards the classrooms.

Here is Alison teaching in the new green room. Alison has now moved to Melbourne to a new job and we wish her the best of luck there.

And here is Mark teaching in the new red room.

As you can see the new campus is larger and also very light.

JET english College will be closing for a break over Christmas, we will be open until Christmas Eve and then will be closed the following week. We open again on the 4th of January after the public holiday for new years day.

During this time there will be some renovations done to the campus to improve it for the students.

We hope that evryone has a good time over the festive season.

New Premises!

JET English College has moved to new premises on George St. We are now located on level one of 552 George St. This new location is very convenient as it is directly outside Town Hall Station.
The move has been completed and we are just settling in to our new building which is larger and more spacious than our campus on Castlereagh St. We are going to be making further renovations in the future, so watch this space to see the changes. The classrooms are large and airy and we will continue to provide a great fun place to study English.
As well as this we have some new teachers which I will introduce you too in another post soon. So this is a period of exciting change for JET. We are always trying to improve your experince studying and hope to see you at our new campus soon.
I will post some photos of the new premises as soon as I have some, watch this space...

TOEIC 2010

Hi there,
Here are some dates for the TOEIC Course and test.
As you know, JET English College is an authorised TOEIC test centre, so we run the public tests once or twice a month.
Before each test we have a TOEIC Course to help people to prepare for the exam.
Our TOEIC Course includes practice tests and preparation with what to expect in the exam as well as help with how to understand the exam and how to answer. A lot of people like to get used to the place where they will be taking the test as well so that it is not as nerve wracking on the day and it gives them the best chance that they have to do well in the test.
JET English College is running a special offer of the course and the test together for only $400.
Please contact us if you would lke to take advantage of this special offer.
Whatever you need to take the TOEIC test for, whether it is to find work, or just to show yourself how much you have improved. Give yourself the best possible chance and take the exam at JET English College.


TOEIC Course and test dates.

Course 03/05-13/05 Test 14/05

Course 31/05-10/06 Test 11/06

Course 28/06-08/07 Test 09/07

Course 26/07-05/08 Test 06/08

Course 23/08-02/09 Test 03/09

Course 20/09-30/09 Test 01/10

Course 18/10-28/10 Test 29/10

Course 15/11-25/11 Test 26/11

Course 06/12-16/12 Test 17/12

New class style for JET

Improve your English with our new and improved classes.
We have been teaching with the Callan Method at Jet English College now for four years, and we have decided to change the format of our third hour lesson. Until now this lesson has been a revision hour to help students catch up with any work that they might have missed, or to give them a chance to practice material that they had already studied.
With the Callan Method normally the teacher asks a question twice and then helps the student with the answer so that the student is speaking without thinking, but we have decided to make the student work a little bit harder and make their own answers to the Callan Method questions. We also give the students words and ask them to make a sentence with them.
Of course, the teacher is ready to help and correct the students as much as they need and the classes are still fast moving and fun.
One of our students said. "I really look forward to the third hour class now because it is very difficult for me, but I think that it will really improve my English.
At JET English College we are always trying to make our school a better place for studying and this development is an exciting one for us.

The Callan Method and the Cambridge Examinations

The Callan Method and the Cambridge Examinations.

The Callan Method is very good for getting students through the Cambridge examinations because they are very closely connected. If you look on the back f any Callan Method book you will see that they mention the Cambridge exams and the fact that they say that you can reach the level of the Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) in a quarter of the time that it takes with other methods.
Since the Callan Method was introduced the Callan Method Organisation has used the FCE as a way of measuring the effectiveness of the method by seeing how long it took students studying with the method to reach the standard required.
The Cambridge exam also influenced how the method was written, and which words were included in the method and which words were left out.
English has a huge vocabulary of nearly half a million words, but most native speakers only use a very small percentage of these words in their everyday conversations. We have many words which are used very rarely and some almost not at all.
The Callan Method teaches the most commonly used words in the English language, they were chosen from the Cambridge English Lexicon and Michael West’s ‘General Service List of English Words’. These books show which words are most commonly used in the language, and so which are the best words to study to get through the examinations.
With the vocabulary and grammar taught in The Callan Method the student should be able to pass the Cambridge examinations because they know and understand the vocabulary needed because of all the repetition in the classroom.
The student should be able to pass the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET) at about the end of stage five of the Callan Method. The First Certificate (FCE) is at about the level of the end of stage 10, and the Certificate in Advanced English is at the end of stage 12, which is when the Callan Method has been completed.
Many students around the world have used the Callan Method to help them to success in the Cambridge examinations.