Foundation to success

The 10-week Foundation OET Course, is meticulously designed to establish a strong linguistic foundation.

Whether you're a novice or aiming to enhance your language skills, this course provides comprehensive

training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, accompanied by ample practice materials. Throughout

the program, you'll explore fundamental grammar principles, enrich your vocabulary, and hone essential

communication strategies. Engage in dynamic classroom activities, interactive exercises, and practical

assignments to solidify your learning experience. Our seasoned instructors will accompany you every step

of the way, offering personalised feedback and tailored support to meet your individual needs. Enrol in our

Foundational OET Course today and unlock your linguistic potential!

Course Objectives & Outcomes

Listening

Course Objectives Course Outcomes
  • To enhance effective and objective listening skills.
  • Retrieve important information by locating and recording specific information and understanding the verb and grammar use.
  • Anticipate content by facilitating the comprehension of objectives of the verbal exchange understanding different accents.
  • Understand the gist and main idea by encouraging critical thinking to interpret viewpoints.
  • Understand a view or speaker's perspective by enhancing your ability to analyse and interpret workplace scenarios.
  • Skills – Active Listening, listening for detail, listening for key word, synonymous and inference language, identifying the gist, developing grammar language to follow discussion.
  • Improved unbiased listening, leading to better understanding and collaboration.
  • Increased accuracy and detail in information gathering and documentation identifying verb and grammar use.
  • Able to facilitate understanding of conversation goals for effective communication and familiarising with accents.
  • Enhanced evaluation of perspectives by understanding the gist and main idea for informed decision-making.
  • Developed critical assessment skills grasping speakers’ perspective covering different workplace scenario for strategic responses.
  • Skills - Developed skills in active Listening, listening for detail, listening for key word, synonymous, inference language, identifying the gist building grammar language to follow the discussion along with the question stem.

Reading

Course Objectives Course Outcomes
  • To be able to use textual features by developing proficiency in effectively locating information - Skim/Scan.
  • Develop ambiguity tolerance when reading texts of difference health care setting and communication dynamics understanding verb/grammar tenses.
  • Acquire the ability to critically analyse how writers develop meaning understand the gist of the text.
  • Develop question comprehension; identify key word to referencing the text for inference or synonymous language.
  • Skills - Skim and Scan, reading for detail, understanding the gist of the text, identifying key word phrase, synonymous and inference language.
  • Enhances ability to Skim/Scan and utilise relevant information within texts, improving efficiency and comprehension.
  • Increases comfort with and understanding of varied communication styles and contexts, leading to better adaptability and interpretation.
  • Strengthened skills in understanding the gist and interpreting verb/grammar tenses to comprehend the underlying messages.
  • Improved ability to accurately interpret questions and identify implied meanings (inference or synonymous language) leading to more precise and effective responses.
  • Skills - Developed skills of Skim and Scan, reading for detail, understanding the gist of the text, identifying key word phrase, synonymous and inference language.

Writing

Course Objectives Course Outcomes
  • Develop the ability to write clearly, concisely, and accurately using case notes.
  • Acquire skills in selecting, organising, and prioritising information using SOAP/ISBAR skills
  • Enhance proficiency in using language(grammar/vocabulary) appropriately, flexibly, and accurately making a good first impression.
  • Develop good understanding organisation and layout with formal setting, professional and factual.
  • Skills - formal language, structured writing, information gathering from case notes and clubbing key notes to construct sentences in a paragraph
  • Enhanced clarity, conciseness, and accuracy in case note writing in conveying information efficiently leading to better patient care.
  • Mastered information selection, organisation, and prioritisation through SOAP/ISBAR skills, enabling relevant information clinically communicated and increasing efficiency and accuracy.
  • Proficiency in appropriate language use, flexibility to enable the reader to clearly understand to make a positive first impression.
  • A strong grasp of formal letter structure with formal and sequential details ensures clear and effective communication in professional settings.
  • Skills - Developed sound use of formal language, structured writing, information gathering and clubbing key notes to construct sentences in a paragraph

Speaking

Course Objectives Course Outcomes
  • Enhance participants' capacity to communicate effectively in diverse healthcare contexts.
  • Develop the art of listening actively and responding in delivering patient care.
  • Build clear, fluent, and accurate verbal communication when giving advice or instructions using appropriate language.
  • Learn to build rapport with patience to better support using linguistic guidelines to connect with patients, eliciting information.
  • Demonstrate a balance between output and input when gathering and giving information using language construction and tone.
  • Skills - Good grammar, fluency, tone, building rapport, gathering and giving information, working with the timelines of the role play
  • Improved overall communication skills, leading to better patient interactions and more efficient teamwork.
  • Enhanced patient care through active listening and understanding to respond to patients' needs and concerns.
  • Increased clarity and effectiveness in conveying (giving) information, using appropriate language focusing on clinical communication to better patient compliance and understanding.
  • Developed stronger patient relationships, fostering trust and improving patient outcomes based on linguistic criteria.
  • Improved effective communication using language construction/tone to gather and give information.
  • Developed good grammar, fluency, tone in building rapport with patient, perfect the art of gathering and giving information, and working with the timelines of the role play.