Materials & Skills

At ELI, all educational materials are carefully curated to support a skills-based learning approach. Our content is regularly updated to align with current exam standards and evolving academic skillsets.

To ensure the highest quality, we’ve appointed an expert content creator dedicated to developing materials tailored specifically for our students. Every resource undergoes thorough vetting by our Academic Director, and our teachers receive monthly training to deliver engaging, effective lessons.

Key Skills Taught

Reading

  • Extracting explicit and implicit information
  • Vocabulary inference and context-based understanding
  • Interpreting language: denotations and connotations

Figurative Writing

  • Emotive language
  • PEEAL (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Analysis, Link)
  • Summary writing
  • Understanding the writer’s effects and language impact
  • Text response and directed writing

Grammar & Writing

  • Sentence structure and grammar foundations
  • Writing in various styles: formal, informal, persuasive, and creative
  • “Show vs. Tell” techniques for expressive writing

Our commitment to excellence ensures students are equipped not only for exams, but for real-world communication and critical thinking.

For further information, kindly contact our Academic Director. A comprehensive syllabus is provided to each parent upon enrollment.

Teacher Training programs

The English Language Institute (ELI) offers comprehensive Teacher Training programs for aspiring educators seeking to join our academic team or serve as tutors for Cambridge First or Second Language English at the IGCSE level, as well as for the Primary and Secondary Checkpoint assessments. These programs are rigorously skills-based, with a strong emphasis on equipping educators with practical methodologies and pedagogical strategies aimed at maximizing student performance in examinations.