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26 January 2026  |  13 March 2026

General English Pre-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
This 7-week full-time English course (CEFR Low B1) supports foreign language speakers developing their speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills. With in-person lessons from 9:00 to 14:00 daily, students build confidence using English in work and life through themes like health, travel, holidays, and sports. Includes writing short messages, using comparative forms, and expressing purpose and opinions. 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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    The course content addresses the following topics:

      • Themes: home, places, health, travel, appearance, personality, holidays, animals, biographies, sports and movement, school subjects
      • Writing: short texts such as emails, stories, or correspondence
      • Grammar: expressing purpose with infinitives; short answers with verb phrases and time clauses; hypothetical statements with first conditional; compound nouns; prepositions of time; using comparatives and superlatives with 'as ... as', 'less ... than', and 'ever' in the present perfect tense; present, past continuous, and perfect tenses; 'for' and 'since' in the present perfect tense; 'have' vs 'have got' and 'have got to', 'should', and 'must'; verb patterns including 'want', 'hope', 'enjoy', and 'like'; 'be going to' vs 'will'; -ing and -ed adjectives; identifying main and modal auxiliaries; distinguishing between related conjunctions: 'but'/'however', 'while'/'during'/'for'; 'a few', 'a little', and 'a lot of'; using definite and indefinite articles correctly; commas, full stops, question marks, capital letters, exclamation marks, hyphens, semi-colons, inverted commas; identifying suffixes used to make different parts of speech; prefixes to form negatives; synonyms and antonyms; time clauses with 'when' and 'as soon as'
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