General English (0102051)
PEC General English Program runs in 6 courses from Starter to Advanced
CRICOS CODE: 03837G
For students who want to communicate in English, and develop basic speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills.
Course Description
This level is for the learners who can understand and use only very basic phrases and familiar everyday expressions. Such students can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
- Ask and respond to simple, routine and predictable questions about personal information.
- Communicate some basic needs in informal conversations.
- Understand key words, some phrases, simple c ommands, and short sentences in simple conversations.
- Read a simple text that is related to daily life and experience. Topics include routine events, descriptions of people, places and things and simple instructions, etc.
- Write a few sentences and phrases about topics that are familiar to the student: family, travel, food, etc.
- Show some control over basic grammatical structures to communicate basic needs.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This level is for the students who can understand frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance.
Course Description
This level is for the students who can understand frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance. Such students can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar matters.
- Communicate in short routine conversations about needs and familiar day-to-day topics.
- Ask and respond to simple and familiar questions.
- Describe a situation, tell a simple story, and describe the process of obtaining basic goods and/or services using a variety of short sentences.
- Read a simple short paragraph passage about daily life and experience.
- Write simple descriptions of events, stories, future plans, or other familiar topics.
- Effectively communicate in writing ideas and information about personal experience and everyday needs.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This level is for the students who can understand well in conversational transactions on familiar topics.
Course Description
This level is for the students who can understand well in conversational transactions on familiar topics. These students can effectively deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
- Communicate effectively in routine conversations about needs and familiar day-to-day topics.
- Ask and respond to simple and familiar questions with fewer errors.
- Describe a situation, tell a simple story, and describe the process of obtaining basic goods and/or services using a variety of longer sentences.
- Read a simple passage about daily life and experience.
- Write descriptions of events, stories, future plans, or other familiar topics with a range of simple sentences.
- Effectively communicate in writing ideas and information about personal experience and everyday needs.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Designed to help students develop their intermediate English language skills so that they can begin experimenting with speaking, reading, writing, and listening.
Course Description
Intermediate students can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc and can effectively deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. They can also produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Such students can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
- Participate in most routine social conversations and talk about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance.
- Understand simple exchanges, common daily instructions, direct questions about familiar topics, routine media announcements, etc.
- Understand the purpose, main ideas, and some detail in some authentic texts.
- Effectively convey an opinion, feeling, or experience in a simple paragraph.
- Write short letters and notes on a familiar topic.
- Use and understand a range of common everyday vocabulary.
- Use a variety of simple structures and some complex ones when speaking.
- Effectively communicate basic needs in a culturally appropriate manner.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Designed to help Intermediate English Course students develop their intermediate English language skills so that they can begin experimenting with speaking, reading, writing, and listening.
Course Description
Students in this level can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialisation. They can also interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. In addition, they can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topic.
- Participate in most routine social conversations and talk about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance.
- Understand simple exchanges, common daily instructions, direct questions about familiar topics, routine media announcements, etc.
- Understand the purpose, main ideas, and some detail in some authentic texts.
- Effectively convey an opinion, feeling, or experience in a simple paragraph.
- Write short letters and notes on a familiar topic.
- Use and understand a range of common everyday vocabulary.
- Use a variety of simple structures and some complex ones when speaking.
- Effectively communicate basic needs in a culturally appropriate manner.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Focused on developing the student’s fluency and accuracy abilities, and to helping them reach a level of competence that will allow them to interact with a variety of more challenging, sophisticated current topics.
Course Description
Students in this level can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. They can express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Such students can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. They can also produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing a controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
- Communicate effectively in most daily practical and social situations at both concrete and abstract levels.
- Participate in formal and informal conversations involving problem solving and decision making.
- Speak on familiar concrete topics at a descriptive level and present a detailed analysis or comparison.
- Participate in conversations with confidence.
- Demonstrate an increased ability to respond appropriately to the formality level of a social interaction.
- Understand more complex indirect questions about personal experience, familiar topics, and general knowledge.
- Follow main ideas, key words, and details in an authentic text on a familiar and partially predictable topic.