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26 January 2026  |  13 March 2026

General English Intermediate (Jan Intake)

Applications accepted until
12 January 2026
Short Course Coordinator:
Zanele Nkosi
Accreditation:
Certificate of Competence
Course dates
26 January 2026 - 13 March 2026
Applications close
12 January 2026
Overview
The General English: Intermediate (High B1 Level) course is a 7-week, in-person programme designed to help foreign language speakers strengthen their communication, comprehension, and accuracy in English. Aligned to the higher B1 level of the CEFR, the course includes daily classes from 9:00 to 14:00, covering speaking, listening, reading, and writing through engaging real-world topics like food, work, education, and health. Students build confidence interacting with native speakers, supporting opinions, and participating in technical discussions. Grammar instruction focuses on modals, conditionals, reported speech, article use, passive voice, tense contrasts, and sentence complexity. Writing tasks include narratives and discursive essays while reading focuses on understanding articles and correspondence. Assessment includes skill-based tests, vocabulary work, and class participation. A quality-assured certificate from the University of the Witwatersrand is issued on successful completion.
Duration
7 weeks
Format
In-person classes and activities daily (9:00–14:00)
Pricing
VAT Incl. = R19,900.00

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    • Themes: food and cooking, family, money, weather, transport, phone language, sport, cinema, health, education, houses, work, shopping, electronic devices, appearance and personality
    • Writing: linkers, linking devices and comment adverbs such as 'fortunately' and 'unfortunately' in an informal email; narratives; discursive essay; editing
    • Grammar: review of modal auxiliaries: 'can', 'can't', 'have to', 'must', 'mustn't', and 'should' to express permission, probability, and obligation; modals in the past; reported speech; first, second, and zero conditionals; different uses of present simple vs present continuous tenses. present perfect simple vs past simple tenses, and present perfect simple vs present perfect continuous tenses; different uses of past verb forms: past simple, past continuous, and past perfect; active and state verbs; different uses of the tenses in passive voice; forming questions with 'like'; verbs used with '-ing' or 'to'; different uses of definite and indefinite articles; different uses of prepositions; adverbs of degree; base and strong adjectives; using suffixes to form words; identifying and using reported speech in lexical chunks; commas, full stops, question marks, capital letters, exclamation marks, hyphens, semi-colons, inverted commas, colons, and parentheses; 'who', 'that', 'which', and 'where' in relative clauses
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