General English

Our General English courses and lessons are designed to improve your English language skills and give you more academic and professional options in the future.

As well as taking lessons, you will have plenty of time to sight-see and explore New Zealand.

Options Available

Full-Time Intensive

20 hours per week

Morning and Afternoon

We offer 8 General English levels. At each level we teach essential grammar, vocabulary, functions and writing and reading skills. Students also receive a lot of listening and speaking practice and teachers encourage students to practice their speaking, give opinions and ask questions.

Part-Time Intensive
13.5 hours per week
Morning only

When students arrive, they are tested in grammar/vocabulary, writing and are interviewed. They are then placed in the best class for their level of English. Student do reading, writing, listening and speaking skills tests in Week 3 and Week 5 of the 6-week block in all classes.

These options are subject to demand and may require minimum class numbers to run.
You can change options during your course if you wish.
The ‘skills’ option is automatically chosen for students if the other options are not available.