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31 January 2026  |  18 April 2026

Communicative English (Jan Intake)

Applications accepted until
17 January 2026
Short Course Coordinator:
Zanele Nkosi
Accreditation:
Certificate of Competence
Course dates
31 January 2026 - 18 April 2026
Applications close
17 January 2026
Overview
This upper-intermediate level course is designed for English as a Second Language (ESL) students seeking to improve their general English skills in line with the CEFR B2 (Vantage) level. The course focuses on enhancing listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills through structured grammar development, paragraph writing, vocabulary building, and pronunciation practice. Students will master various sentence structures, refine their use of tenses, and edit for clarity and accuracy. The curriculum also covers the writing process, cohesive devices, and formal and informal registers. Through a portfolio of reading, writing, speaking, and listening tasks, students build fluency and confidence for academic, professional, and social use. The course is ideal for those preparing for further studies, workplace communication, or international exams. A quality-assured certificate from the University of the Witwatersrand is issued on successful completion.
Duration
11 Weeks
Format
5-hour weekly classes (Saturdays, 8:30-13:30) for 10 weeks, exam in week 11
Pricing
VAT Incl. = R13,700.00

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    The course content addresses the following topics:


    • The writing process (planning, crafting, drafting, editing, revising, proofreading)
    • Editing and proofreading a text for sentence structure, paragraph structure, organisation of information, word choice, punctuation, spelling, word forms, number, register, verb tenses and states, modal verbs, imperative mood, and subject-verb agreement/concord
    • Organisation of general, descriptive, example, process, opinion, narrative paragraphs 
    • Punctuation and parts of speech/word class and their forms and number for adjective form
    • Articles for plural count nouns and singular mass nouns
    • Reading and listening for understanding, main ideas, supporting information, and detail
    • Speaking with fluency, coherence, grammatical range and accuracy, appropriate vocabulary use, and pronunciation
    • Vocabulary: phrasal verbs, preposition collocations, formal and informal register
    • Active/dynamic and state/stative verbs, imperative verbs and modal verbs of probability in the present and past
    • Past perfect and past perfect continuous tense in the present simple, past simple, and future simple tense
    • Future aspect of tenses in the active voice: future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous
    • Subject-verb agreement/concord for compound subjects, indefinite nouns, collective nouns, and interrupters
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