About Us

GEOS Corporation was founded in 1973 with the goal of furthering International Communication through English language education. Today GEOS offers its educational services through a network in over 550 schools and offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania. In these regions GEOS is providing students from all over the world the opportunity to become proficient in English while experiencing the lifestyle associated with many interesting cultures. GEOS seeks to differentiate itself from its competitors by the quality of its client services, its professionalism and its international capability.

GEOS Language Academy - Vancouver

The city of Vancouver has so much to offer, with its long list of both indoor and outdoor activities, that it is guaranteed to please absolutely everyone. Vancouver was voted “The Best City in the Americas” in 2004 by Condé Nast Traveler magazine because of the wonderful atmosphere, the friendliness of the city, the great restaurants, and so much more.GEOS Language Academy-Vancouver is especially well-known for its warm, friendly, academic atmosphere, and you can look forward to meeting people from all over the world. Our curriculum always focuses on communication in English, so you will be able to improve your speaking ability, as well as work on your grammar, pronunciation, writing, and listening.

Courses

C.E.P.(Comprehensive English Programme)

  • Full Time/ Part Time / Intensive Courses

CEP is to help students improve on all aspects of the English language. It balances speaking, listening, reading and writing, while reinforcing grammar and vocabulary. GEOS offers 6 levels of instruction from Beginner (Level 1) to Advanced (Level 6). The class sizes are small; averaging 8-10 students, with a maximum of 12 per class. The small class size means teachers and students interact much more and each student has more opportunity to improve. GEOS Language Academy is a friendly, warm place where you can learn and grow!

TOEFL Preparation Class

This comprehensive course helps students prepare for all sections (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) of the iBT TOEFL test by developing special skills and strategies that lead to more efficient test taking.

  • Creative learning activities
  • TOEFL skills and strategies.
  • Small classes; Maximum of 14 students per class
  • Professional, experienced, attentive instructors
  • TOEFL resource materials students can use for after school study
  • Enrollment every Monday

TOEIC® Preparation Course

The TOEIC® Preparation Courseis designed to prepare students for the TOEIC® exam. This advanced course concentrates on the three required skills for the internationally recognized TOEIC® Certificate: Reading , Writing and Listening. At the end of the course students can take an official TOEIC® exam at our school and receive on official certificate of their score.

 PRIVATE ENGLISH LESSON COURSE

 With a specially designed program to help the student reach specific goals, the private lesson gives intensive one-to-one training for the highly motivated individual. It is ideal for students with test goals or job requirements. Also, private lessons can be a very valuable step for beginner students to help improve confidence.

BUSINESS ENGLISH COURSE

Our Course focuses on grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, pronunciation and conversation as well as realistic business problems and situations, case studies, realia, the ever-changing world of business and the learnersÕ own experiences and opinions. To be flexible for the students, the course start date can be chosen by them as well as the number of hours, the time and the day of the week.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION COURSE

This course does not use traditional ways of teaching pronunciation, but innovative methods based on current research. It focuses on the rhythm and melody of the English language, and helps the students develop the knowledge and skills needed to be understood by native speakers and the ability to follow spoken language. To get course details, contact us.

ENGLISH WRITING COURSE

Whether you want to use English for personal, academic or work purposes, this course will help you develop good writing skills in an interesting, communicative and fun setting. You do not have to be an advanced student of English to join this course. The focus is to help you develop good writing skills and become a well-rounded English user. To get a course detail, contact us.

SPECIALTY ENGLISH COURSE

Sometimes, a group of people have particular goals in common and would like to study together in a program tailor-made for them. This is no problem at GEOS Language Academy. We go the extra distance to help our students.

OTHER LANGUAGE COURSES - French, Japanese and Spanish

This program is designed to help students build fluency skills in spoken as well as written  These skills are developed through classrooms conversational interaction with qualified native instructors, as well as practical and entertaining activities. GEOS believes that the fastest and most effective path to fluency is through conversation. Thus, students are encouraged to use their new language skills as quickly and as frequently as possible. Early, continued success in speaking and understanding helps built the confidence needed in real-life conversational situations. Building confidence is the primary goal of all GEOS language courses.  

Location

GEOS Language Academy – Vancouver is located in the very center of the downtown core, just a few minutes’ walk from Sky Train stations, bus stops, local shopping, and Stanley Park.

Accommodation

Students have lots of alternatives for accommodations in Vancouver. Hostels and apartment-hotels are options year-round. Prices and availability are based on the seasons, so students should contact us if they are considering these alternative accommodations . Our home stay program is the most popular choice of accommodations for everyone who wants a true Canadian experience!

To find out course fees, intake dates, entry requirements and more details about courses and the Institute please click on the Enquiry button and complete our form.