For language input and activities, the courses all use coursebooks as their basic material. These are supplemented with extra materials (printed articles, audio, video) on a variety of topics (ranging from everyday, "down to earth" ones to more academic issues.)
There are student presentations to encourage individual efforts as well as individual vocabulary development in content based or contemporary literary or everyday texts. The courses include a minimum of two in-class progress tests, a written or oral vocabulary test and several shorter in-class tests.