General English

General English Plus

Students join General English in the morning and choose personalised afternoon courses.

You can choose the following options:

Skills & Culture
Our Skills and Culture module is for anyone with an English level between A1 – C1 who wants to gain a deeper understanding of life and culture in the UK and beyond while practising specific language skills.
This course focuses on using English to practise real-life situations with other students. Using a variety of real-life texts and materials, students share and discuss information, opinions and ideas to improve their speaking and listening skills and build life skills in English.

English for Work
This course is practical and focuses on communication skills and the language needed to work effectively in a job in an English speaking environment.
The focus of this course is to give you skills needed to get a job by helping with writing CVs, cover letters and job interviews. The course also focuses on:

• Customer care, dealing with customers effectively on the phone and face to face,
• Effective meeting skills, chairing and participating in meetings and understanding the psychological process of decision making
• Presentation skills, planning and organising a presentation using PowerPoint, and how to use voice and body language to get a message across effectively.