GENERAL ENGLISH COURSES

ELEMENTARY GENERAL ENGLISH
(from A1 to A2)

For beginners and false beginners who need simple, usable English for school, travel and daily life.

• Speaking and listening skills focus on practical tasks like checking in, buying a coffee, buying clothes, asking the way, ordering a meal, and getting to the airport.

• Vocabulary includes numbers, countries, classroom language, jobs, family, daily routine, weather, food and drink, places, holidays, books, and films.

• Grammar builds from be, pronouns, possessives, imperatives, and present simple to present continuous, can / can’t, past simple, there is / there are, countable / uncountable nouns, comparatives, be going to, adverbs, and present perfect.

The following courses teach general purpose language useful in social, work, travel, and academic contexts.

All courses are practical and focused on building speaking fluency and confidence. They use modern communicative methods informed by the evidence-based natural approach.

Lessons take place in Arnhem (in the 'Stikkerbuilding', Meester D.U. Stikkerstraat 10, 6842 CW), face to face in small groups of 6 to 8 students, for €375 per person.

PRE-INTERMEDIATE GENERAL ENGLISH
(from A2 to B1)

For learners moving from basic English to more confident everyday communication.

• Speaking and listening skills stay practical through tasks like calling reception, eating out, taking something back to a shop, going to a pharmacy, asking for directions, and speaking on the phone.

• Vocabulary covers relationships, clothes, holidays, airports, restaurants, housework, shopping, health, work, school, sport, biographies, animals, directions, and unusual jobs.

• Grammar develops through question forms, present and past narration, future plans, present perfect, something / anything / nothing, comparatives and superlatives, quantifiers, infinitives and gerunds, have to / must / should, first and second conditionals, passive forms, used to, might, past perfect, and reported speech.

INTERMEDIATE GENERAL ENGLISH
(from B1 to B2)

For independent learners who want to speak more naturally and fluently in social, work, travel, and study contexts.

• Speaking and listening skills centre on practical interaction such as reacting to what people say, giving opinions, making suggestions, asking permission, and using indirect questions.

• Vocabulary includes food, money, transport, family, phone language, sport, relationships, cinema, education, housing, work, shopping, technology, and crime.

• Grammar covers present and future forms, present perfect simple and continuous, articles, modals of obligation and ability, past tenses, passives, modals of deduction, first/second/third conditionals, gerunds and infinitives, reported speech, quantifiers, relative clauses, and question tags.

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE GENERAL ENGLISH
(from B2 to C1)

For upper-level learners who need more confident, flexible English for discussion, opinion-sharing, and real-world communication.

• Speaking and listening skills remain strongly practical through Colloquial English lessons and listening on topics like medical emergencies, exciting trips, bungee jumping, regrets, arguments, crime, cities, and science

• Vocabulary expands into job interviews, personality, health, fashion, air travel, the environment, feelings, sleep, music, crime, media, business, cities, and science.

• Grammar includes question formation, present perfect simple and continuous, adjective order, narrative tenses, future perfect and future continuous, conditionals, wish, used to / be used to / get used to, gerunds and infinitives, past modals, passives, reporting verbs, clauses of contrast and purpose, quantifiers, and articles.

ADVANCED GENERAL ENGLISH
(from C1 to C2)

For strong learners who want precise, nuanced English for professional, academic, and high-level social communication.

• Speaking and listening skills use sophisticated but practical themes through Colloquial English and listening on topics such as earliest memories, memorable dates, stress, addiction, installation art, difficult journeys, vegetarianism.

• Vocabulary covers personality, work, memory, conflict, books and films, sound, time, money, technology, art, health, travel, animals, food, and words that are often confused.

• Grammar includes lexical vs grammatical have, discourse markers, past habits vs specific incidents, inversion, speculation and deduction, unreal past uses, verb + object + infinitive / gerund, conditionals, permission / obligation / necessity, advanced gerunds and infinitives, ellipsis, relative clauses, and cleft sentences.