Adult English courses

Choose from:

• General English- available all year round, 16 years+- face to face and online

• Intensive English- available all year round 16 years+- perfect for doing a Cambridge, IELTS or Language Cert exam or for Business English- face to face and online

• One to one lessons- available all year round, 16 years+- face to face and online

• English plus Culture- available all year round, 18 years+

• English plus Rosamunde Pilcher for the over 50's- fixed dates, 50 years+

• English plus Walking- fixed dates, 18 years+

• English plus Cycling- fixed dates, 18 years+

• English plus Wellbeing- fixed dates, 18 years +

• Summer Family programmes- summer only, 4 years+

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​Our General English course forms the core of our year -round teaching programme for 16 years+.​ The classes will help you to improve all four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking and we integrate our classes with our optional social programme to help you use the language in the real world.

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Intensive English 

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Our Intensive English course combines 15 hours of General English with an extra 6 clock hours of lessons a week. The focus of the Intensive lessons varies according to the needs of the students.

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If you want to extend your General English practice, we will concentrate on developing your confidence as a speaker and communicator in English through authentic speaking and listening activities.

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If you want to prepare for an examination such as Language Cert, Cambridge B2 First, CAE or IELTS, the focus will be on exam techniques with regular practice tests. We've had great success helping students to get good exam results so book this option now to help us fulfil your potential.

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If you want to improve your business communication skills, the focus will be on 'work related' English and interview, telephone and presentation skills practice.

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Please tell us your aim when you book this option- if you are the only student we will still run the course with a reduced number of hours on a one to one basis.

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This course is eligible for Bildungsurlaub 'work holiday' for German students. Click here for more details

Work Experience (unpaid) 

Improve your CV and your future job prospects by doing unpaid work experience in an English company.​ This is currently only available to students who have an Erasmus grant for 2020-2021.

Part-time 16 years+

You attend classes for half the day and work for half the day to make the most of your time abroad. This is good for people who have only 2-4 weeks available to study or for younger students with little work experience in their home country.

Types of placement available: Tourism, museums, charity shops, restaurants, fitness centres.

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Full-time 18 years+

Who can apply?
At present this programme is only open to students who have full legal rights to work in the United Kingdom. Minimum Level B1. 

Types of placement available: Marketing, personnel, professional (legal, accounting, hairdressing), artisan (building, roofing, carpentry, stone mason) and more.

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Funding available
This is currently only available to students who have an Erasmus grant for 2020-2021.

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I really enjoyed working in the cafe. Julia and Colin were very kind, helpful and funny. I had a great time.                                                                                                                                                                 Jana (Switzerland) 17 years

One to one classes 

There is no better way to give your language skills a huge boost than our one-to-one classes. You have one of our lovely teachers all to yourself to focus on exactly what you need, whatever your level. 

In your first lesson you will discuss your goals, strengths and areas to work on, and make an action plan with your teacher. Some people send us information about what they want to study before they arrive so that we can design a programme in advance. If you have the time, we really recommend that you do this. You can choose to focus on General English or Business English, or a combination.

Most of our students combine One-to-One lessons with General English or Intensive English so that they have a balance of group and individual lessons, which is the best way to progress as quickly as possible.

Included for all our adult courses:

• Pre-course online test​

• Day 1 induction, test and assessment of needs- may be done online before you arrive

• All your course materials online through our study portal plus access to online materials for 12 months after you go home.

• Weekly tutorials

• Monthly progress tests

• Certificate of attendance

• For academic outings, we use public transport as much as we can to protect our environment.  Where we do need to use a car or coach, we offset our carbon footprint through planting trees.

I really liked the lessons with my class, they were really interesting and useful and my teacher was great. I really appreciated his way of interacting with us.    Nicole (Italian) 17 years