Our General English Courses for Pre-Intermediate students covers:
- how to develop conversations, face to face and on the phone
- how to describe countries, give directions, talk at the doctor's
- how to use English practically in airports, hotels and restaurants
- how to use stress and intonation adequately to support comprehension
- how to make requests, ask for factual information, directions and instructions
- how to express statements of fact, give explanations, take part in more formal interaction
- how to extract the main points when listening to presentations
- how to listen for details in short narratives and explanations
- lots of new vocabulary on topics such as work, travel, animals, sport, school subjects and shopping
- lots of new collocations, adverbs, adjectives, verbs
- grammar, including present perfect simple, continuous tenses, modals and conditionals
- how to use context and both phonic and graphic knowledge to decode words
- how to obtain information from illustrations, maps, diagrams and captions
- how to exchange information orally, write book and film reviews, emails and informal letters
- how to obtain information from a simplified dictionary to find meanings of unfamiliar words
- how to use punctuation and capitalization to aid understanding
- how to write descriptive texts and give opinions
- how to construct simple and complex sentences using conjunctions, such as ‘and’ and ‘but’
- how to develop strategies to aid spelling
