November 2016

Academics 1

Student Testimonial 1

Activities 2

In the spotlight 2

SEC NEWSLETTER

This Issue

IELTS at SEC

Student Testimonial

IELTS and EAP: The Pathways to Academic and Career Success

IELTS and EAP are very popular courses at SEC. IELTS stands for International English Lan-

guage Testing Systems and EAP means English for Academic Purposes. The students from these

programs are able to attain their dreams of attending world famous institutions through our excel-

lent pathway programs and work in careers they love.

Students who have taken these programs are extremely happy with their results. One of our former

students Franziska Heimlich says, "Today I received my online results from the IELTS exam two

weeks ago and just wanted to let you know. Luckily, I ended up with a score of 6.5 on writ-

ing. The rest of the test was better: 7.0 speaking,

8.0 listening, 8.5 reading and an overall score of

7.5. I'm pretty happy with this result. Thank you

again so much for your help! Without your amaz-

ing classes I would not have had a chance to

achieve this score! Thank you!!" IELTS and EAP

are very successful programs. The reason for the

success of these programs is that we have the best

and more qualified instructors in the industry. Our

instructors have years of experience helping stu-

dents to achieve academic success and many of

them are trained and certified examiners. Our in-

structors all have university degrees, they are certi-

fied by TESL Canada and they have at least five

years of experience working with international students from all over the world. Our instructors

create classes that are engaging, fun and interesting. The major focus points of IETLS/EAP are

advanced reading, advanced listening, advanced speaking, writing about charts and essays and

advanced grammar. Students who aim for success in any advanced English classes and would love

to learn how to write essays, will be delighted to finally learn these skills in our classes. Whether

students plan on attending a college or university or plan to simply learn the most advanced Eng-

lish courses our schools offer, these programs are for you. These classes are challenging, engaging

and rewarding. If you are interested in learning more about IELTS or EAP, please talk to your ad-

visor or sit in on a trial lesson!

Being a student at UCCBT was one of the best moments in my career; I took the Busi-

ness Administration Diploma. I acquired the proper skills to be prepared to face any

obstacle within the business world along the eight courses provided by the school. In

each course I learnt the key skills for every area within the Business Administration,

teachers were friendly and qualified and always able to help me out with any question or

doubt. In addition, they helped me enhancing my strengths, working on my resume,

helping me getting over my weaknesses, etc. Also, the staff here is great, very friendly

and always able to help you. After all these months here I can say I’m happy with the

decision I made of coming here to study and increase my knowledge in the business

area, I totally recommend UCCBT to everyone, it’s a nice college with teachers and

staff prepared to help you with any problem. Highly recommended.

Daniel Villareal

Toronto Campus

120 Eglinton Ave E, 4th Floor

Toronto, ON

M4P 1E2 Canada

Vancouver Campus

549 Howe St., 5th Floor

Vancouver, BC

V6C 2C2 Canada

Tel: 604-678-8184

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SEC Activities: Fall in Vancouver

Jon has been a teacher with SEC for 5 years already, but not that many

students know that Jon is also actively involved in the theatre as a pro-

ducer and actor for the last 2 years. Recently SEC staff members and

students had a chance to see Jon on stage in adaptation of classic “12

angry jurors”. Playing one of the central characters, Jon is confident that

acting not only supports his personal ambitions but also gives a great

boost to his teaching responsibilities.

Being comfortable in front of the audience, being able to be engaging and

interesting is something that Jon learned in theater and now use to keep

students’ attention on learning ESL. Having experience in both teaching

and theatre, Jon creates truly unique studying experience.

Jon MacIntyre

Eduardo Eduardo Longo Aureliano Jr

In The Spotlight

November 2016

The fall is in Vancouver and rainy weather is

back, but less sun doesn’t mean less fun at SEC.

Having international students coming every

week, SEC is always ready to provide exciting

and engaging activities for them. As usually, we

had traditional SEC Night Out at the Irish Pub.

It was a unique chance for our students, teach-

ers and advisors to bond together and relax after

the long week. UCCBT and SEC students had

another chance to know each other during won-

derful Food Festival in September. Participant brought a lot of food from their native countries to

share. Halloween proved to be the highlight of the fall once again with most of the students and teach-

ers preparing fantastic and complex costumes for our annual costume contest. It was very hard to pick

the winners, because, frankly speaking we did not expect such response from students, who took the

contest will possible seriousness. It was extremely pleasant for all of us to see how students worked

hard to bring this wonderful holiday to

life. For most of the students it was the

very first Halloween and it especially

touching to see energy and excitement in

their eyes. SEC and UCCBT had a lot of

fun and laughs during another traditional

school event—Pumpkin Carving. Students had a great chance to show their creativity and carv-

ing skills. Having more than 2 dozen pumpkins on display, judges had a great time picking the

ultimate winner. Fall took over the city and it’s not as fun outside, but inside SEC there always

something to do every day!

Eduardo is UCCBT’s BA student graduating next month. Dreaming of

working in game design industry, Eduardo can boast an impressive re-

sume with the background at gaming companies back inhis native Brazil.

Eduardo’s passion for games resulted in his collaboration with his peers

to create a new board game where the player is taken to the world of Bol-

lywood and has to go through all obstacles to build a successful career.

Right now the game is still at the development stage and soon the team

will be ready to start the crowd funding campaign.

SEC team would like to wish Eduardo luck with all his beginnings!!!