English Courses

Salem Union has been running English courses in the city since it was founded in the late 1990s. These have always been high quality accessible TEFL courses for local people using established teaching materials and with native English speakers on the teaching staff.

The English course curriculum at the Social Village includes additional material to raise awareness of global issues such as poverty. We also encourage our students to take part in our social action projects by volunteering with us (see below).

Alongside our English Courses and the Conversation Clubs where students can practice conversational English with a native speaker, we teach Global Citizen Leadership classes in English. This is a further means of raising awareness of global issues and helping students to consider how they can respond to those in need around them.

Course Details

We teach the following classes:

Children (up to 14) Students (over 14)
English World Beginner
Tempo 1a Elementary I
Tempo 1b Elementary II
Tempo 2a Pre-Intermediate I
Tempo 2b Pre-Intermediate II
Tempo 3a Intermediate I
Tempo 3b Intermediate II
Upper Intermediate I
Upper Intermediate II

All classes are run with 40 hours of classroom time per semester over a period of about 9 weeks, with three classes a week. Please enquire for specific class schedules by calling us on 31-87-32.

Courses cost 25,000T per semester (plus 8,000T for textbooks) for children and 22,300T (plus 7,700T for textbooks) for students.

Returning students and multiple students from a single family can claim a discount of 1,000T per semester.

Resource Centre

We have the biggest library of English books and educational materials in the whole city. The Resource Centre is open to everyone during normal working hours, as follows:

Monday 10:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 17:00
Tuesday 10:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 17:00
Wednesday 11:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 17:00
Thursday 10:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 17:00
Friday 10:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 16:00
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed

Inclusive and Accessible

We want to make our classes accessible to everyone, regardless of their background, whenever we can. We have a small scholarship programme each semester to enable students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to take an English course to study with us. Please contact us if you’re interested.

Next Registration

Our next registration week is Monday 14th to Saturday 19th January for the semester that begins on Monday 21st January. If you want to find our more details about our English Courses, please call 31-87-32.