Kaplan Liverpool

I've been at Kaplan a little over a month and it has been disappointing. The teaching style is outdated, nothing innovative. They use a book and follow it to the letter (in my case the English File, because Kaplan's own according to the teacher was of a low level). That is something that I could have done in any school in Spain, but they also do not care about how you feel or how you evolve. We discussed it among ourselves (students) that in the end you have to be the one to take the initiative and do things to learn and immerse yourself in the city and in the country. They are more concerned with getting sponsors to bring groups of students than with the students themselves. The profile of most students is young and from an intermediate level or lower, so if you have an advanced level, you do not have many people who push you to speak better since there are no activities organized by the school that promote that for advanced students. I must say that I was at the advanced level and the classes were neither motivating nor challenging. They don't teach you anything about the city, or the culture of the country or anything like that. Just follow the book. They don't know anything about any educational system, they just played us some video from the English File, but no news from the BBC, or newspapers, that is, no immersion delivered by them. And look how easy it is to be in an advanced group like the one I was in. A teacher played the same audio 4 or 5 times and another read us his poems or his CV. It really did feel like a Mr. Bean movie at times. And it's not a question of bad luck with the teachers, because some of them came from another Kaplan school. They have no educational system. There are many groups from the Middle East, Italy, Turkey who come together and stay together. So you'd have to be quite lucky to arrive and find people who have gone alone and have a similar English level to your own, since the school does not organize anything to integrate new students when they arrive. About the activities, it is only worth going to the one on Saturday that you must pay for separately. If you want to get to know tourist sights, they do not prepare it or notify you that if you want to visit something in particular, book it for yourself. In summary, if you can find another school, you should.

I have studied at Kaplan Liverpool for two months and everything is perfect when you pay for a course, everything is good words and good manners, but the moment you have a problem you go from being a person to being a number. I have never been treated worse than in Kaplan Liverpool, the treatment of the staff in horrible, nefarious. I would never recommend this school. After this, I decided to continue my studies for three more months in another school in Liverpool (June to December), where the personal treatment and the school are perfect!