General English - Level 03 - Extensive Course
General English – Level 03 is a pre-intermediate English course designed for learners who can communicate in familiar situations and are ready to express ideas with greater fluency, accuracy, and independence. The course develops listening, speaking, reading, and writing through practical situations, structured language study, and interactive tasks. Learners expand their vocabulary, use a wider range of tenses and sentence structures, explain experiences and opinions, and communicate more confidently in social, travel, study, and routine workplace contexts.
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- 15 days
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Course overview
General English – Level 03 is a pre-intermediate English course designed for learners who can communicate in familiar situations and are ready to express ideas with greater fluency, accuracy, and independence. The course develops listening, speaking, reading, and writing through practical situations, structured language study, and interactive tasks. Learners expand their vocabulary, use a wider range of tenses and sentence structures, explain experiences and opinions, and communicate more confidently in social, travel, study, and routine workplace contexts.
Training methodology
Communicative, learner-centered lessons combining guided language practice with authentic interaction.
Pair and group discussions, role plays, problem-solving activities, and situational dialogues.
Listening practice using everyday conversations, announcements, interviews, and short presentations.
Reading and writing workshops with model texts, drafting, peer review, and trainer feedback.
Pronunciation drills, vocabulary recycling, regular formative quizzes, and progress assessments.
Target competencies
- More fluent participation in familiar social and professional conversations.
- Accurate use of core pre-intermediate grammar and sentence patterns.
- Understanding main ideas and important details in clear spoken and written English.
- Writing coherent paragraphs, emails, descriptions, and short narratives.
- Expressing preferences, plans, opinions, comparisons, and reasons with appropriate vocabulary.
- Self-correction, communication repair, and independent language-learning strategies.
Course objectives
- Describe experiences, routines, achievements, and future intentions using appropriate tenses.
- Ask follow-up questions and sustain conversations on familiar topics.
- Express opinions, make suggestions, agree or disagree politely, and explain reasons.
- Understand the main points of clear speech and moderately extended everyday texts.
- Read short articles, instructions, messages, and narratives for gist and specific information.
- Write organized emails and connected paragraphs using basic linking expressions.
- Apply modal verbs, comparatives, conditionals, and common verb patterns in context.
- Improve intelligibility through stress, intonation, connected speech, and pronunciation practice.
Course outline
- Review of common everyday situations and functional expressions
- Using questions and follow-up questions to maintain interaction
- Identifying personal strengths and priority areas for development
- Developing strategies for speaking when vocabulary is limited
- Describing habits, routines, and ongoing activities
- Contrasting permanent situations with temporary actions
- Using frequency expressions and time markers accurately
- Discussing changes in daily life and work
- Narrating completed events and background actions
- Describing interrupted actions and sequences of events
- Using irregular verbs and past-time expressions
- Sharing memorable experiences and short personal stories
- Talking about experiences without a specific past time
- Using ever, never, already, yet, just, and recently
- Distinguishing present perfect from past simple
- Asking about achievements and following up with details
- Using will, going to, and present continuous for future meaning
- Discussing intentions, arrangements, and predictions
- Making offers, promises, and spontaneous decisions
- Planning activities and coordinating schedules
- Combining ideas with because, although, so, while, and however
- Using sequence markers to structure explanations
- Introducing relative clauses with who, which, and that
- Improving clarity through sentence expansion and editing
- Expressing ability, possibility, obligation, and advice
- Using can, could, should, must, have to, and might
- Making polite requests and asking for permission
- Explaining rules, recommendations, and expectations
- Using comparative and superlative structures
- Comparing advantages and disadvantages
- Using too, enough, and common degree modifiers
- Making recommendations based on criteria
- Forming if-clauses for likely future situations
- Discussing consequences, choices, and contingency plans
- Using when and unless in practical contexts
- Solving everyday problems through conditional discussion
- Describing job responsibilities and daily tasks
- Talking about skills, training, and professional goals
- Using common collocations for meetings and teamwork
- Clarifying instructions and reporting progress
- Managing reservations, directions, and transport arrangements
- Explaining travel preferences and experiences
- Handling routine service problems and requests
- Understanding signs, notices, and practical information
- Introducing opinions and supporting them with reasons
- Agreeing and disagreeing respectfully
- Making and responding to suggestions
- Participating in guided discussions and decisions
- Recognizing topic, purpose, and speaker attitude
- Listening for dates, numbers, reasons, and key facts
- Following short interviews and practical discussions
- Using prediction and note-taking strategies
- Extending answers beyond short sentences
- Asking clarification questions and checking understanding
- Managing turn-taking and conversation breakdowns
- Practicing spontaneous exchanges through role plays
- Recognizing and producing common difficult sounds
- Practicing word stress in multisyllabic vocabulary
- Using sentence stress to highlight meaning
- Developing natural rhythm and question intonation
- Skimming articles and short narratives for main ideas
- Scanning notices, websites, and emails for specific facts
- Identifying text organization and reference words
- Inferring simple vocabulary meanings from context
- Organizing topic sentences and supporting details
- Writing informal and semi-formal emails
- Describing experiences, plans, and opinions in writing
- Revising grammar, punctuation, and cohesion
- Explaining a problem and requesting assistance
- Offering alternatives and proposing solutions
- Using polite language for complaints and apologies
- Reaching practical agreements in simulated situations
- Combining reading, listening, speaking, and writing tasks
- Participating in discussions based on short texts and recordings
- Preparing brief presentations with questions and answers
- Applying vocabulary and grammar to realistic scenarios
- Revising key language structures and functional vocabulary
- Completing listening and reading comprehension activities
- Delivering an assessed speaking task or dialogue
- Producing a short written text and reviewing individual progress
Morning and evening classes are available. CompuBase Training Center, Abu Dhabi.
