Mandume Language Centre MLC
Our Centre, which is known as Mandume Language Centre, offers an intensive course of English at beginners, elementary, intermediate and advanced level.
Our courses have been designed in such a way that can stimulate the mind. They involve a mixture of teaching lessons and self computing practice in English using modern CD supported software.
Each classroom has a maximum of 5 students so that the attention of the teacher is not too decentralized. Students attend 3 hours of classes in the morning with one teacher, 3 hours in the afternoons with a different teacher as well as 1 hour of computer a day.
Our courses are not only classroom based. Students visit some historical places in the company of their teachers.
Transport for the students is provided by the Centre to and from the Centre.Regarding accommodation and aiming to maximize the English learning process we suggest accommodating each student in a Namibian English speaking family.
MLC English
It improves your English skills in conversation, listening, writing, reading and grammar. The aim is to give you the confidence to live and work in the English-speaking world. It is also an excellent preparation for Academic English programs.
You can enter at any level and progress at your own pace. Our teaching styles encourage interactive language use so you will have many opportunities to practice the skills you are learning.
Students can study for any amount of time from two (2) to fifty (50) weeks a year. Our courses are structured for flexible progress around five-week modules according to the students capacities.
A typical weekly timetable for our English Program - Intermediate level
Please note that this is only an example of a weekly timetable.
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 8.30-10.30 am | Reading and Speaking Life's ups and downs Idioms Meeting people | Language Laboratory | Grammar and Vocabulary Expressing abstract ideas e.g.Prefixes and suffixes | Listening and Speaking Tell a story from two points of view + talking about our frightening experiences | Grammar Narrative verbs Past tense Project Compare interview results in groups |
| 10.30-10.50 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 10.50 am-12.50 pm | Listening and Speaking What makes you happy, angry, etc | Vocabulary and Reading Adventures and mishaps | Electives | Writing Avoiding repetition Listening and Speaking Real life | Reading Summarizing newspaper articles Video Listening Behind the news |
| Homework | Quiz: Are you a risk-taker? (from text book) | Language summary in text book | Project: Prepare interviews for Friday | Prepare writing exercise from text book for next Tuesday | Language summary in text book; Grammar checkup |
