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Bell and Assumption College Bangkok formed it's successful partnership in 2005. Today, about 300 Mathayom 1 to Mathayom 3 students are learning English with Bell at Assumption College.

Why study with Bell?

Curriculum based on international standards

The Bell curriculum is based on the Common European Framework of Reference, the gold standard for language proficiency internationally. This framework focuses on what students can do in the language they are learning, such as:

• describe their dreams, goals, and aspirations
  
• describe plans, arrangements, habits, routines, past activities and personal experiences
  
• give prepared presentations on familiar topics
  
• write about their experiences, feelings, or reactions in a simple, connected text
  
• read straightforward, factual texts on topics familiar or interesting topics
  

Quality Teaching - Guaranteed

External programme assessors from Bell English, an award-winning language school in the UK, come every year to assess the performance of the programme. Teachers are also formally observed twice a year and must participate in active professional development programmes to ensure they are providing the best instruction possible.

Teachers

Bell teachers are all qualified, experienced teachers with international teaching qualifications. This ensures that Bell teachers have excellent subject knowledge and can provide the highest level of education for our students.

Class Sizes

Bell classes are restricted to a maximum of 16 students. This allows the teacher to devote individual attention to each and every student and allows all students to fully participate in the lesson.

The Bell Programme is not just another English class - it’s a programme that prepares students for a lifetime of effective learning.

Sirut Krizruenont

Ruj was the winner of the Bell Scholarhsip in 2022 and spent two weeks studying at Bell St. Albans with his tuition, accommodation, and excursions covered in full by Bell English.

“i really enjoyed my time here. They put me into an advanced class! It was hard, but I had a lot of fun and made friends from many different countries, who I still talk to to this day! It was an amazing experience and I would wholeheartedly recommend it to all Bell students.”

Narawit Asavaruengpipob and Alexander Bumpenpon

On November 22nd, 2023, Toto and Alex competed in English competitons held by the Bell Programme at Assumption College, Thonburi. They competed in the "London Twang" event, an event designed to award students for their proficiency in the London accent

Alex took 3rd place in the competition, and while Toto unfortunately did not place, he recieved extremely positive remarks from the judges who were impressed with his performance.

As part of the competition, the students were required to guess the meaning of London slang phrases, imitate the London accent, and in the final event produce a small performance with another contestant where they needed to display their use of the London accent. Both Toto and Alex reported that they had an excellent time at the event and enjoyed it greatly.

Patcharawat Wichanchitr

Sundae was the winner of the Bell Scholarship for the 2023-24 academic year. He was awared the scholarship for his diligent studies and hard work in class, and for consistently setting an excellent standard of work for his peers. The scholarship entitles him to a two-week course at any Bell campus in the UK and includes his tuition, accommodation, and airport transfer at any time during the next year.

Every year, our Mathayom 2 and 3 students take external, internationally-accredited exams from Cambridge Assessment English to measure their progress in English and give them international qualifications that they can take with them as they finish high school and go into university.

Our students consistently score highly on the exam, and we are an authorized Cambridge Preparation Centre, meaning that we have a proven track record of success preparing learners to succeed in these exams.

Outstanding Progress

In the Bell Programme, we take our students’ progress seriously and we track each of our students closely to ensure that they are meeting their English-language goals. Last year, our students improved at an average of one CEFR level per year in our programme, which is outstanding progress.

Vocabulary

• countries and nationalities
  
• jobs
  
• describing characteristics and behaviours
  
• weather and climate
  
• places in a town
  
• music and music genres
  
• physical appearance
  
• health, injuries and parts of the body
  

Grammar

• adverbs and expressions of frequency
  
• going to for future plans, intentions and decisions
  
• countable and uncountable nouns
  
• comparative and superlative adjectives
  
• present continuous and present simple
  
• time adverbials
  

Functional Language

• giving and expressing opinions
  
• talking about likes and dislikes
  
• asking for, making and responding to suggestions
  
• asking about and discussing future plans
  
• buying goods in a shop
  
• describing problems and offering solutions
  

Skills

• listening to a conversation and answering comprehension questions
  
• reading short articles and completing charts to show their understanding
  
• reading a story and completing a summary of it
  
• watching videos on engaging topics and summarising them
  
• reading descriptions of different animals and describing them to their classmates
  

Vocabulary

• jobs and job qualities
  
• personality adjectives and compound adjectives
  
• rules and plastic pollution
  
• animals and characteristics of animals
  
• everyday activities
  
• events, dates and interesting activities
  
• technology and gadgets
  

Grammar

• using want and would like
  
• defining relative clauses
  
• modal verbs to express obligation and permission
  
• present simple and present continuous
  
• past simple, used to and present perfect
  
• real conditionals in the present/future
  

Functional Language

• asking for and giving permission
  
• discussing wants and desires
  
• giving suggestions and recommendations
  
• common phrases in emails and structuring letters
  
• linkers of addition / reason / result
  
• discussing results
  

Skills

• reading magazine articles for general interest and completing summaries of them
  
• writing social media posts on important social issues
  
• writing letters and emails
  
• listening to and watching documntary-style videos about animals
  
• sharing past experiences and how they felt
  

Vocabulary

• lifestyles
  
• sports
  
• manufacturing and assembly
  
• ancient civilizations and artifacts
  
• films and film genres
  
• describing buildings and neighbourhoods
  
• describing marine life and ocean animals
  

Grammar

• verbs of preference + gerund
  
• present perfect progressive
  
• passive voice with and without agents
  
• non-defining relative clauses
  
• modal verbs to discuss present and past probability
  
• comparative and superlative case & other forms of comparison
  
• second conditional and I wish
  

Functional Language

• giving and asking for advice
  
• phrases to help structure an informal letter / email
  
• descibing processes and how things are made
  
• discussing problems and brainstorming solutions
  
• talking about wishes and hopes
  

Skills

• reading about famous figures in pop culture and summarising their careers
  
• writing a variety of short essays, including descriptive and persuasive
  
• watching videos about eco-friendly fuel alternatives and answering multiple-choice questions
  
• giving presentations about ways that students' hobbies can be turned into businesses
  
• writing a review of a film or TV show that students enjoyed
  

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