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Upper Madison College

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Cursus onderwerpen

Het luisteren, sprekend, uitspraak, lezing, het schrijven, woordenschat en grammatica

Klas schema

Tijdsduur van de cursus
2-52 weken
Start data
13 jan 2025, 10 mrt 2025, 05 mei 2025, 30 jun 2025, 25 aug 2025, 20 okt 2025 en 15 dec 2025
Lessen per week
20 lessons per week (elke les duurt 45 min)
Lesdagen
maandag - vrijdag
Schoolvakanties
23 dec 2024 - 03 jan 2025

Upper Madison College heeft geen lessen tijdens de bovenstaande vakantie data. De school geeft geen vergoeding voor deze vakantiedagen dus verzeker u ervan dat u de correcte startdatum kiest.

Lestijden

You can choose from the following class times:

Ochtendsessie
09:00 - 12:15

Les rooster kan veranderen afhankelijk van beschikbaarheid en seizoen.

Cursus beschrijving

There are 6 two-month levels in the language program going from a A1-C1 (Beginner to Advanced).

There are 2 morning classes dedicated to grammar, reading, writing, listening, pronunciation, and intonation. There is one class in the afternoon focused on speaking and conversation, oral fluency.

Integrated Study - Grammar

- This class will continue using the same textbook as the first class but will be focused on grammar. However, again the context of the class would be integrated. Therefore, grammar skills will be developed through readings and listening to produce grammatically correct writing and speech.

Integrated Study

- This class focuses on all four skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening in an integrated manner.
- The focus of this class is two-folds. First is to teach the individual skills so that students develop fluency in the skill. The second goal is to help students develop confidence to use the skills in combination of with others such as a real world situation dictate.

Listening and Speaking

- UMC’s ESL program’s main goal is to help students in the end to speak English. Therefore, this class is first of 2 classes dedicated to speaking. This class is focused on oral accuracy using the context that only if you can hear it, can you say it. Also this class will work on pronunciation and intonation.

Advantages of Language Program

1. Integrated Study
a) Different class structure to core ESL classes, which provide variety.
b) Several classes with same teacher for beginner students to feel comfortable
c) Opportunity for advanced students to practice learnt skills.

2. Oral Accuracy
a) Focused lesson on the fundamental aspects of oral communication such as pronunciation.
b) Plenty of teacher feedback and voice recording.
c) Activity, practice and task-based lessons to ensure exciting and active learning.

3. Reading and Writing
a) New concepts are presented in each level.
b) Focus on practical application and usage rather than only theory.
c) Importance on comprehension and understanding rather than the right answer.

4. Oral Fluency
a) Structured classes that are objective-centred with tangible goals.
b) Clear levels which give students a sense of progression.
c) Connection to Effective communication classes to develop fluency alongside accuracy.

On the first day, the student is tested on his/her level. According to the result, the corresponding books will have to be purchased at the school.

Study materials are NOT included in the price. Textbook Fee : 50 - 100 CAD depending on student level.

Klasniveau

Alle niveau's, beginner tot geavanceerd
U zult een toets afleggen op je eerste dag om zo te kunnen evalueren welke uw klasniveau is. U kunt deze test ook doen voor aankomst in !Regio.

Klasgrootte

Gemiddeld 8 studenten
Maximaal 12 studenten

Studenten leeftijd

Leeftijdsgroep 13 - 55 jaar oud
Gemiddeld 23 jaren oud
(20 tijdens de zomer)

Certificaat

Een certificaat van voltooiing zal uitgereikt worden aan het einde van de cursus.
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Beoordelingen

87% aanbevolen

gebaseerd op 15 beoordelingen
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"Untitled"

John Blanton, student van USA

The website was well done, which is why I enrolled. The class size of 10, should have been split because it was too large with a wide range of levels. My teacher, Albana (sp?), always had a smile, did her best, and encouraged her students. The classroom had uncomfortable chairs, was cramped, and there was no air conditioning. The break room was also cramped. The only men's room always had a large puddle under the urinal, not sure if it was a plumbing problem but it was gross. Overall, I worked hard to concentrate and made the best of the experience. Not sure I would recommend the school, unless someone already had a history of learning another language to draw from.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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School locatie
Studieduur
2 weken
Studie datum
5 Sep 2023 - 22 Sep 2023
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Nee
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Excellent, from the teachers to the classmates and the ciudad itself."

Carlos Berganza, student van Spanje

Really nice school! I took the FSL Débutant A2 course for 2 weeks and I have no complaints! Ideal location, very good facilities and amazing staff and classmates. They take everything very seriously, and everyone is very kind!! Thank you for such an amazing 2 weeks! I think I learned a lot.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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Studieduur
1 week
Studie datum
8 Aug 2022 - 19 Aug 2022
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.
Lama Rahman, Regional marketing Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at at Upper Madison College responded to this review.
25 August 2022

On behalf of Upper Madison College I want to thank you for taking the time and effort to leave us the review.
It was a pleasure having you as student at Montreal campus and we are glad you enjoyed your experience there.
Good luck and hope to have you again in the near future.

"This experience was beautiful"

Mary REVEL, student van Frankrijk

All is very good, classes, teachers, the level is great

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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Studieduur
2 weken
Studie datum
19 Oct 2015 - 6 Nov 2015
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"I did not complete the course. I studied 4 week instead of 8 weeks."

Majed Nawaf T Aloraier, student van Saudi-Arabië

The student in class is not close to my age, big deferent which we did not know this before this is not fair and not comfortable.
The teachers are very nice I like them.
Location very good.
Facilities and activities and housing are normal.
I did not improve my English enough that why I decided to not complete the course.
We spent lots of money which is not equal the benefit.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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Huisvesting
Studieduur
7 weken
Studie datum
8 Jul 2019 - 30 Aug 2019
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Nee
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Unexpectedly beautiful"

Tiffany Yazmin Wences Chirino, student van Mexico

I was in Upper Madison College for three weeks in a French course. The first examination is great because you are placed in your French level with other students who are your same level. Even though I would've liked to stay longer, I really loved the sense of family between the students and the teachers, the level is very good and you really practice all aspects of the language. The location is great, just a block away from all the fun in summer and walking distance from the metro. The facilities are clean and organized and the teachers are very good. Also, there are extra activities on weekends sometimes, I really enjoyed the soccer match. The visit to the evolution museum was not perfectly planned but the teachers managed to make a great day out of it. Definitely going back!

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
School faciliteiten
Sociale aktiviteiten
School locatie
Studieduur
2 weken
Studie datum
1 Jul 2019 - 19 Jul 2019
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.
Lama Rahman, Marketing manager at Upper Madison College responded to this review.
31 July 2019

We are so happy that you were satisfied with your learning experience at UMC.
Thank you Tiffany for taking the time and effort to leave us this appreciated review.
Looking forward to have you again in the near future.

"Chaotic and unorganized school/teachers but good learning experience"

Anna Hubatsch, student van Duitsland

The Classes are always really small. I was in a group with 5 other students. Each classes every day are divided in 4 different parts, unfortunately they were all given by the same teacher. I learned a lot and had fun in/ with my class, yet my teacher wasn’t really a professional teacher which showed form time to time. We learned by the book and did a weekly test and a daily dictat. The school organization itself was a bit chaotic and unorganized but the staff is very friendly.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
School faciliteiten
Sociale aktiviteiten
School locatie
Studieduur
3 weken
Studie datum
13 May 2019 - 7 Jun 2019
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.
Lama Rahman, Marketing Manage at Upper Madison College responded to this review.
26 June 2019

Hi Anna

I appreciate what you wrote. Your review will push us to do our best to make things better.
I would be happy if you email me with more details or examples from your experience about school being chaotic and disorganized. That would help us a lot fixing the issue.
My best regards
Lama
[email protected]

"It allowed me to accomplish what I wanted to do regarding my objective with the language. Basicallly a review of grammar, reading, writing. I gained more vocabulary and have to continue working on my listening and oral expression."

Llui Montero, student van USA

The school is well located and easily accessible by metro. The administration is welcoming and helpful. They have much experience with foreign students who speak a variety of languages and have a variety of accents and levels of understanding of the French language. They are open, listen attentively and motivate the student to express himself/herself in French. The first day you go through a placement test that involves oral comprehension, reading and writing as well as a face to face interview with the program director. This is how they determine your proficiency level and which class to place you in.

I am not sure how clear this is when signing up but books are required for the courses at a cost. They offer used books for less money, which is what I did since I was only going to spend a few weeks there and not an entire semester.

The teachers are of different backgrounds. All native French speakers but of different origins. France, Belgium, Morocco, Vietnam, Quebec. Therefore, they themselves have different accents. Some a bit more difficult to understand than others, although the idea is that they speak standard French. Except for one, all made the effort to modulate and articulate well enough for the students to understand their instructions and lectures. All of them were willing to answers questions and repeat what was not understood by the students, All in all, it appears to be an institution dedicated to advance and support the student's individual goals.

The classrooms in the school are accommodating and well distributed for the most part. Bathrooms were generally well equipped although, I imagine because of the high traffic of people they often ran out of toilette paper or paper towels and one had to ask for it. This was generally taken care of quickly. On about three occasions I noticed that the place had not been cleaned up the day before and garbage not disposed of.

Every 10 days or so they had difficulty with the internet, you had to take time to go to the administration and report it, and they had to reset it. A bit annoying.

The administration was also helpful with items unrelated to the school such as helping with location of places in Montreal or ways to go about accomplishing a certain task or finding something specific within the city.

I rented an Airbnb so I have no comments regarding housing. I understand that staying with a local family would be better in acquiring and practicing the language but I have allergies and cannot stay in just any place. Too bad for me.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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School locatie
Studieduur
2 weken
Studie datum
10 Sep 2018 - 28 Sep 2018
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"I would back to this school after"

Joyce Contreras , student van Costa Rica

I liked the experience, there are differents nationalities, this was so good for me, because I improved my listening.
The teachers, location are so good. The classroom have good size; however, the school needs to be better about cleanning and other sevices like wifi and the audiovisual classroom.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

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Studieduur
8 weken
Studie datum
23 Apr 2018 - 22 Jun 2018
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"My son and I had a wonderful experience. We learned a lot of French. We had an excellent professor , Mr. Vang. The classes were very interesting . Definitely we will take advantage and will take more classes when ever we have a break . The teacher made us more eager to learn and study at home. Keep up the good job. Thank you Professon Vang from Clara and Daniel"

Clara Osorio-Dussan, student van USA

Excellent. We came home eager to learn more and be ready to go back to study French soon.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

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Studie datum
23 Apr 2018 - 27 Apr 2018
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Awesome!"

Seïf Bellatti Ceccoli, student van Frankrijk

I really liked the teachers and the way they teach and also the mixture of all these cultures from around the world. It was pretty enjoyable and makes you expand your view of the world.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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Studieduur
5 weken
Studie datum
30 May 2016 - 8 Jul 2016
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Good job!"

Gaia Tornone, student van Italië

Great location, excellent teachers, good classes (maybe should be a little bigger room), great activities. I didn't use the housing provided, so I can't comment about that.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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Studieduur
5 weken
Studie datum
6 Jun 2016 - 15 Jul 2016
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"A great opportunity"

domenico privitera, student van Canada

It has been a nice experience, not only because of the English class, but also for the friendships I created in only two weeks! The teachers have a lot of passion and it is a good environment. I suggest that you attend this college!

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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School locatie
Studieduur
1 week
Studie datum
14 Sep 2015 - 25 Sep 2015
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Awesome"

Akiko Otake, student van Japan

Because the teachers, students and staff were very friendly and kind, I enjoyed learning English. In the class, I was surprised at the students' active participation and high motivation. That gave me good influences. In addition, its location was very convenient. I offten went sightseeing after school with friends, which was very nice.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
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School locatie
Huisvesting
Studie datum
10 Aug 2015 - 14 Aug 2015
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Excellent school"

Helena Braga, student van Brazilië

The teachers are wonderful, patient, happy, and they explain the subject very well. The location the school has a lot of stores, restaurants, and the metro is next to the school. The classes are great, and we have classes with 3 different teachers

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
School faciliteiten
Sociale aktiviteiten
School locatie
Studieduur
2 weken
Studie datum
6 Jul 2015 - 24 Jul 2015
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.

"Very good!"

Zhihuan Wan, student van Canada

I loved the classes and would go back again if I have time.

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Mijn waardering voor deze school

Onderwijskwaliteit
School faciliteiten
Sociale aktiviteiten
School locatie
Huisvesting
Studieduur
1 week
Studie datum
8 Dec 2014 - 19 Dec 2014
Zou u deze school aanbevelen?
Ja
Dit is een geverifieerde recensie. Deze student heeft een opleiding aan deze school geboekt via Language International.
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Visa assistentie

We kunnen geen visas voor studenten aanvragen. De school kan u echter wel met alle benodigde documentatie voorzien die u nodig heeft voor uw visa aanvraag.

Uw acceptatiebrief zal gratis naar uw huisadres per normale post worden gestuurd. Indien u uw documentatie per express post wilt ontvangen zal C$ 75 in rekening gebracht worden bij uw registratie.

Vlucht en airport transfer

Please note that we do not book flights for our students. If you are researching airfare costs, we recommend using Kayak.com, a search engine that lets you compare flight options from your home country to Montréal based on your budget, schedule and preferences.

Reisverzekering

Studeer in het buitenland zonder zorgen met Language International's medische en persoonlijke effecten verzekeringsdekking. Wanneer u een cursus met ons reserveert, kunt u kiezen om een internationaal plan te kopen die niet alleen uw medische kosten dekt maar ook het verlies van persoonlijke spullen. U moet uw verzekering van te voren reserveren wanneer u registreert.

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