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the hague university preparatory programme it is obvious that good language skills are essential if you want to succeed in a university programme with its new subjects unfamiliar teaching methods and cultural differences taught entirely in english the preparatory programme or prep school is the opportunity to acquire the academic skills and level of english you need for studying in the international classroom.

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prep is more than an intensive course of english it also offers training in critical thinking building an argument presenting a case working in teams project work use of ict tools and many other skills you need to study at university teaching takes place in small classes 16 hours per week and is done by experienced and highly qualified university lecturers who will take a personal interest in your progress throughout the programme four hours per week you will receive individual coaching by senior international and dutch students they will help you study and adjust to dutch society and university each term there will be excursions project assignments and parties dutch style where you will be able to meet many other international friends depending on your level of english you may chose from a full terms 1,2,3 and 4 or half year prep programme terms 3 and 4 with the following curriculum prep school curriculum semester 1 term 1 weekly programme generalenglishpractice i 4hoursreading/writing/listening/speaking­ contentandlanguageintegratedapproach englishforspecialpurposes4hours usingenglishonthetelephone grammarpractice2hours vocabularypractice2hours teambuildingskills2hours interculturalcommunication2hours individualcoaching4hours projecti studyweek termexam excursion term 2 generalenglishpracticeii:reading/writing/listening/speaking englishforspecialpurposes businessenglish grammarpractice vocabularypractice teambuildingskills presentationskills interculturalcommunication individualcoaching projectii termexam christmasholidays end of first semester final exam semester 2 half-year programme term 3 generalenglishpracticeiii reading/writing/listening/speaking englishforspecialpurposes businessenglishii grammarpractice vocabularypractice academicwritingi interculturalcommunication criticalthinkingi individualcoaching projectiii termexam excursion term 4 generalenglishpracticeivreading writing/listening/speakingor englishforspecialpurposesacademic writingiior grammarpracticeor vocabularypracticeor academicwritingiior interculturalcommunic or criticalthinkingiior individualcoaching projectiv cambridgeskillsdevelopmentprogrammesdp sdp sdp sdp sdp sdp sdp

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application requirements to enrol you need to have obtained the following minimum scores in one of the two internationally recognised tests below minimum scores for toefl test of english as a foreign language and ielts international english language testing system tests requirements toefl computer-based toefl internet-based ielts overallscore 1/2yearpreparatorycourse 1yearpreparatorycourse 197 173 71 61 5.5 5 for chinese students a nuffic certificate is required and enrolment in prep school will depend on their passing an interview and a prep school writing test another diploma prep school rewards excellence by inviting the top scoring students to take part in the new cambridge skills development programme sdp this is a 7 week programme offered in term 4 april-june although there are additional fees students scoring 7 overall in the prep school exam can take this diploma course for free the sdp diploma equals the united kingdom s a-level skills certificate and is recognised by the world s leading universities alternatively the regular programme offers additional exam training for the ielts exam for more information about please visit our website www.thehagueuniversity.nl/prepschool or contact our international office by phone fax e-mail 31 70 445 8505 31 70 445 8594 prepcourse@hhs.nl

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