General English courses for adults (UTAP claimable)

This 40-hour General English course is for adults who need to improve their English language skills for everyday use. The course improves speaking and listening skills, as well as developing grammar and expanding your English vocabulary. 

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Speak English more fluently and confidently.
• Listen to English and understand it, more easily understand.
• Read and understand a variety of reading texts.
• Write English with greater accuracy and effectiveness.
• Understand and use a wider range of vocabulary words in English.

This course is suitable for adult students with English at CEFR levels A2, B1, B1+, B2, C1.

This 20-hour Speak with Confidence Foundation course is for students who can use English to communicate at a basic level. The course focuses on improving English speaking skills, including pronunciation. You also learnuseful phrases to communicate in everyday life. 

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Talk confidently to people in everyday situations.
• Speak English clearly enough to be easily understood by others.
• Exchange opinions with other people and agree or disagree politely.
• Understand and use the vocabulary of daily social life.
• Use a range of English phrases to help you communicate effectively in everyday situations.

This course is suitable for adult students with English at CEFR levels A1 to mid-A2.

Our Speak with Confidence Essential course and Speak with Confidence Plus course are for adults who want to improve their spoken English language skills for everyday use. These short 20-hour courses give you the time and confidence to improve your English speaking and listening skills. 

This Speak with Confidence Essential course is for students who can use English quite well, most of the time. The course helps you become more fluent in English. It improves your pronunciation, so people understand you more clearly. You also learn useful English phrases you can use in daily life.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Talk easily with others in common social situations.
• Speak English more clearly, with better pronunciation.
• Exchange opinions with others and give your point of view.
• Understand the English vocabulary of daily social life, and use it with confidence.
• Use a range of English phrases to help you communicate effectively in different everyday situations.

 This course is suitable for adult students with English at CEFR levels A2 to mid-B1.

Our Speak with Confidence Essential course and Speak with Confidence Plus course are for adults who want to improve their English conversation skills for everyday use. These short, 20-hour courses give you the time and confidence to improve your speaking and listening skills. 

This Speak with Confidence Plus course is for adults who already use English quite well – but want to be more fluent and natural. This course improves English pronunciation and vocabulary. You also learn colloquial language to suit a range of situations in daily life and work.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Talk easily with others in a wide range of social and work-related situations.
• Speak clearly and be easily understood by a range of English speakers.
• Deliver high-pressure communications such as work presentations with greater confidence and clarity.
• Understand English idioms and colloquial phrases often used in social and work life, and be able to use them confidently. 

This course is suitable for adult students with English at CEFR levels mid-B1 and above.

Our 20-hour Grammar Essential and Grammar Plus courses are for adult learners who want to improve their grammar accuracy in both speaking and writing for everyday use. Through developing knowledge and confidence in using English grammar learners are able to  communicate fluently and effectively in both spoken and written English.

Our Grammar Essential course is for learners who have a solid understanding of English grammar but need to build on this foundation and improve their accuracy. The course also improves learners’ pronunciation, and there are listening and reading texts to understand grammar in context. In addition, online resources are included in the course materials for self-study alongside the 20 hours of classroom teaching.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Use a range of grammar accurately to communicate in a variety of real-life contexts in spoken and written English.
• Speak English clearly through improving pronunciation.
• Identify and understand grammar in context through reading and listening texts.

This course is suitable for adult learners with English CEFR levels A2 to mid-B1.

Our 20-hour Grammar Essential and Grammar Plus courses are for adults who want to improve their grammar accuracy in both speaking and writing for everyday use. Through developing knowledge and confidence in using English grammar learners are able to  communicate fluently and effectively in both spoken and written English.

Our Grammar Plus course is for learners who have a good range and understanding of English grammar but want to learn more complex language and use it to communicate accurately. The course also improves learners’ pronunciation, and there are listening and reading texts to understand grammar in context. In addition, online resources are included in the course materials for self-study alongside the 20 hours of classroom teaching.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Use a wide range of grammar accurately to communicate in a variety of real-life contexts in spoken and written English.
• Speak English clearly through improving pronunciation.
• Identify and understand grammar in context through reading and listening texts.

This course is suitable for adult learners with English at CEFR levels mid-B1 and above.

This 20-hour Say it Clearly course in Singapore is for adults who want to speak English more clearly and confidently.

By the end of the course you will be able to: 

• Pronounce English language sounds and words correctly.
• Know the differences between similar sounds, in English words.
• Learn word stress for clear communication.
• Use sentence stress to make your meaning clear.
• Understand how sounds connect in speech.
• Use intonation to communicate your meaning clearly. 

This course is suitable for adult students with English at CEFR levels B2 and above.

Prefer to join a full-day workshop?

This course can also be delivered intensively as a full-day Say it Clearly workshop focused purely on skills for working professionals. The course can be delivered over one, two or three days, to suit your schedule.