Our General English courses are designed to develop your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well helping you to develop a thorough understanding of grammar. We take a practical hands-on approach that involves you in using the language from the very first day.

We divide our students into levels from Beginner to Advanced.  Each level is taught across four terms that cover one year.  New students can be tested into the beginning middle or final term of a level. This ensures that the class you go into is the best possible level for you and that you progress through the levels more quickly.

Beginner level

			This is an introductory course, for one term (40 hours)
			By the end of the level you will be able to ask and answer basic questions about families, jobs, daily routines and free time.
			You will also study grammar; present simple, possessives and there is/there are.

Elementary level

			By the end of this level you will be familiar with a range of everyday English social expressions for use, on the telephone, at the airport, making conversation, doing shopping and checking into a hotel.
			You will also study grammar: present and past tenses, comparatives and superlatives, articles, future forms and present perfect.
			You will learn a range of vocabulary connected with food and drink, describing feelings, jobs, verbs, travelling abroad, cities and the countryside.

Pre-Intermediate level

By the end of this level you will be familiar with everyday English: social expressions, describing feelings. You will learn a range of vocabulary connected with designer goods.

Intermediate level

			By the end of this level you will be familiar with a range of everyday English social expressions for use when giving opinions, making requests and offers, informal language, expressing interest and surprise, being polite.
			You will study a range of grammar including modal verbs, indirect questions, reported speech, relative clauses, articles and determiners.
			You will develop your understanding of vocabulary word formation, adjectives, synonyms, idioms, and compound nouns.

Upper Intermediate level

By the end of this level you will be familiar with a range of everyday English social expressions for everyday English: cross-cultural customs, issues in sport, life issues and social ceremonies.

Advanced level

			By the end of this level you will be familiar with a range of everyday English social expressions for adding emphasis, interrupting, contradicting, persuading, spontaneous and considered speaking
			You will study a range of grammar including: perfect forms, participle clauses, articles, complex sentences and discourse, conditional sentences, inversion.
			You will develop your vocabulary skills by guessing meaning from context, understanding the subtleties of connotations, collocation, and multi-word verbs.