The Human Resources Department is pleased to announce the start of Winter Communication Skills courses for spouses.
Spouses of faculty, staff and students who live within the KAUST community are welcome to join. The courses will run from November 22 through December 17. Courses meet twice a week for 90 minutes and focus on spoken English.
This is a great opportunity to improve your English, as well as interact with other community members with a desire to learn English!
Conversation courses cost 400 SAR and range from beginner to upper intermediate levels.
To register please click here.
Registration will close at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, so don’t delay!
6 comments
Dear Team,
my wife is working till 13:PM could she participate in this course , is there any session afternoon time .
please let me know ASAP.
thanking you for your kind cooperation
with regards
yassine mostafa
KAUST , LEM
Campus Support
Hello Yassine,
As many of our spouses have children in the schools, our classes are generally offered in the mornings. We have one business English course for spouses in the afternoons. This is an upper intermediate level group.
Matt
Dear Team,
Is there any chance for late registration? My wife is interested for ’Certified English Courses for Spouse’ but we just came back from our holiday and missed to register this course before 12 November.
With regards,
Raju Dey
Hello Raju,
You can contact me at matthew.fechtmeyer@kaust.edu.sa and we’ll try to arrange a placement test for your wife.
Matt
What is upper intermediate level considered? Would it be beneficial for someone who already speaks English?
Thank you?
Hello Saheena,
At the Upper Intermediate level, speakers should be able to have conversations with little or no stress in trying to understand or be understood. At this level, the main area of growth is increase in vocabulary as well as improving on some grammar errors that may arise.
If you’d like, we can meet to have a conversation and I can let you know how you’d fit in at our more advanced levels.
Feel free to send me an email at matthew.fechtmeyer@kaust.edu.sa to discuss further or to arrange a time to meet.
Matt