General English (GE)

General English (GE)

General English (GE)

General English (GE) is a course designed to build and enhance the core English language skills like listening, speaking, reading, writing along with understanding of grammar and vocabulary. The students learn and develop their English proficiency by engaging and actively participating in interactive activities and language games which help them in building their confidence apart from the ability to freely and enthusiastically communicate in everyday life situtions.

Course Overview

  • The course is for adult learners from diverese language backgrounds and who have limited exposure to English conversations.
  • This course teaches basic vocabulary, simple verb tenses, common phrases, conventional techniques, pronunciation tips, the phonetic and English alphabet and coincidence in your language. This will help them to participate in the Australian community, progress in their job or do further study.
  • The students appear for a placement test and oracy test to check their proficiency level in English and placed in the class-bathes as per their proficiency levels.
  • The students are given progress tests every 5th week and passing the exam promotes them to the higher level.
  • The students learn and practice grammar, vocabulary and the core skills at each level in the classes and they take the tests for the same.
  • The classroom activities including watching videos, listening to the audios, playing language games and interactive activities like role plays, word charades etc.

Skills practiced in the classroom

Listening: Students will listen to English from native speakers via their teacher and other media. They will also listen to English spoken by their peers. They must focus their attention on the speaker’s message in order to comprehend and produce a meaningful response.

Speaking: Students will have the daily opportunity to practice speaking in structured conversations with their peers as well as producing several projects to present information to the class using newly acquired English skills.

Reading: Students will be reading a variety of modified texts, including short stories, poetry, and expository writing, with guidance and support from their teacher and peers. Students will learn various strategies to help them comprehend a text in their second language. They will also learn analytical skills necessary to interpret both literature and images.

Writing: Students will be writing on a daily basis, practicing the grammar structures and the new vocabulary. They will write a variety of personal narratives, descriptions, reports, poems, and reflections based on the literature. They will also have the opportunity to create their own works of creative fiction in response to various texts.

Levels of English

Elementary

You will learn basic vocabulary, simple verb tenses, common phrases, conversational techniques, pronunciation tips, the phonetic and English alphabet and confidence in your language.

Pre-Intermediate

This course builds on the skills learned at the Elementary level. You will learn more complex tenses, modals and conditionals, more complex tenses including simple past, future, and present perfect, how to agree / disagree and express your opinion in conversation and written documents, how to tell a good story, further pronunciation skills and confidence in your new language.

Intermediate

This course is an extension of Pre-Intermediate. It concentrates on joining tenses, more formal structures including all the conditionals and the passive voice, as well as extending your knowledge of idioms, phrasal of verbs, and colloquialisms. By the end of the Intermediate course, you will be better equipped to converse in a relaxed manner.

Upper-Intermediate

This course introduces more advanced grammatical knowledge and seeks to increase personal vocabulary and to encourage autonomous learning. The pronunciation syllabus employed increases accuracy and confidence. approach in mind. By the end of this course, you will be able to socialize more effectively with other English speakers at both the verbal and written level.