General English Courses
General English Courses are intended for anyone who would like to learn English as a second language. These courses are meant to develop the learners’ reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Passing these levels, learners become confidently able to handle all of life’s unspecialized topics and to communicate almost as a native speaker would do onto their language
General English courses are accredited by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) - UK.
| CEF Equivalents. |
Stage | Objectives | level | Duration |
| Below scale | Pre-Elementary | Introduces the learner to the basics of the language in the simplest and most familiar contexts and situations. | 1 | 28 hrs |
| Below A.1 | 2 | 28 hrs | ||
| 3 | 28 hrs | |||
| A.1 Breakthrough |
Elementary | Cover more basics that the learner needs in less familiar and a bit more sophisticated contexts. | 4 | 28 hrs |
| A.1 Breakthrough |
5 | 28 hrs | ||
| 6 | 28 hrs | |||
| A.2 Waystage |
Pre-Intermediate | The learner’s competence becomes more active; Learners are now able to form complete and noticeably longer sentences than those in the previous stages. | 7 | 28 hrs |
| A.2 Waystage |
8 | 28 hrs | ||
| 9 | 28 hrs | |||
| B.1 Threshold |
Intermediate | Active language extends to cover a variety of topics, gradually decreasing the mother tongue influence. | 10 | 28 hrs |
| B.1 threshold |
11 | 28 hrs | ||
| 12 | 28 hrs | |||
| B.2 Vantage |
Upper intermediate | All four skills (listening- speaking – reading and writing) integrated cover a wide range of vocabulary and structures and learners are able to communicate most of life’s unspecialized topics | 13 | 28 hrs |
| B.2 Vantage |
14 | 28 hrs | ||
| 15 | 28 hrs | |||
| C.1 Effective Operational Proficiency |
Advanced | Active Language is free -to a great extent- from the mother tongue influence, with developed writing skills and efficient awareness of structures use and word collocation. Learner’s now can sound like natives | 16 | 30 hrs. |
| C.2 Mastery |
17 | 28 hrs. | ||
| 18 | 30 hrs. |
All adults and young adults who are looking for a better communication in English in general.
We use theCommon European Framework (CEF) to help you describe what you can do in English.
What is the Common European Framework (CEF) and how can it help me?
CEF Can do statements describe what you can do at different levels of competence, they help you:
- evaluate your own progress
- set realistic goals
- demonstrate your English level to your employers
we set learning aims linked to the CEF for all our courses
- each of our courses have a set of learning aims
- learning aims are short-term skills development goals
- learning aims focus you and your teacher on specific areas for language development
- learning aims are used in conjunction with a coursebook
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