 The IF-Sales department is the International Foundation courses and English language studies department of SOAS. We have our own summer programme and that combines English language courses with some subject courses with English support. I took English language skills to improve my basic English skills. Now I'm taking media. It will be a very nice opportunity to actually make my own documentary film. In the lecture we learn about the theories of media. We watch many clips from real documentaries. And then with Debbie, the English supporter, we learn about the vocabularies related to media. So it's very well balanced. Before each lecture there is a lecture preview class. After each of the six lectures we have a lecture review class. So even if students are at an intermediate level of language they can get plenty of support. Advanced reading and writing was really useful for my English. I didn't know how to do it and it's really useful especially if you're going to study at the university in the United Kingdom. We learn how to write essays for the university and also things like references, things that are really going to be useful for your university career. I've always been interested in business but I thought it would be nice to study business in a different view from Japan. There were two key and I think enjoyable areas for the students. One is the visit to the Bank of England. The Bank of England Museum shows globalization and how globalization operates. And the other one is to work on independent projects. The last class on the module is where they present to myself and another English teacher. Here the teacher just gave you a clue and they gave you the name of the author. They gave you the people who come up with this idea and you have to do the research after class by yourself. And I think in this sense that my ability of learning has really improved. I always think the course is eye-opening. The people come into the course and they really feel like they've changed the way they look at the world, changed the way they look at art, changed the way they look at history. We spend a lot of time out in the city getting to know the museum, seeing the real artworks in the flesh. I don't think there can be many courses like that. It was beautiful to see how different people from other countries had different opinions on different issues. I think that SOAS is the only university that gives you the chance to have a wider idea of the subject. Here you don't study just economics, but study development, environment from the United States to India. So you really have a different perspective. SOAS integrates language and the topic very, very well. Some people would say that a leading organization in the world for doing that. We had great fun, really got interested in the subject. I think the teachers did it in the best way for us. So everybody was motivated to participate in the lessons and to give their opinion.