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ELICOS (General English)

Speak with Confidence, Anywhere

Build your confidence and accelerate your English skills with the General English Program at Sage College Australia. Designed for students from beginner to advanced levels, this course helps you communicate clearly and naturally in everyday situations, whether you’re studying, working, travelling, or living in an English-speaking country.

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General English (Beginner to Advanced)

Our General English course is designed to help you communicate confidently in everyday situations. Whether you’re traveling, working, or living in an English-speaking country, this course will improve your conversation skills and enhance your ability to interact in real-life scenarios.

Course Information

Course Overview

Our General English course is designed to build your confidence in everyday communication, whether you’re travelling, working, or living in an English-speaking country. Learn how to interact naturally in real-life situations while developing essential speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

 

The course is delivered across six progressive levels:

 
  1. Starter level 
  2. Elementary
  3. Pre-Intermediate level
  4. Intermediate level
  5. Upper Intermediate level
  6. Advanced level 
 

Each level is tailored to support your growth, with interactive lessons and supportive trainers helping you improve at your own pace.

Who Should Apply?

This course is perfect for anyone looking to improve their English skills for daily life, travel, work, or future academic study. Whether you’re just starting out or want to refine your fluency, our General English program will help you speak with confidence and connect with the world.

A summary description of the outcomes for each level is provided below: 

Level 1 – Starter

  • Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases 
  • Introduce yourself and others
  • Ask and answer questions about personal details 
  • Conduct simple interactions with others

Level 2 – Elementary

  • Understand and use sentences
  • Use common expressions 
  • Communicate in situations requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters

Level 3 – Pre-Intermediate

  • Understand key points
  • Write simple texts 
  • Talk about yourself

Level 4 – Intermediate

  • Understand the main ideas of complex texts
  • Interact easily with others
  • Produce clear, detailed text

Level 5 – Upper Intermediate

  • Understand demanding, longer texts 
  • Recognize meaning
  • Express yourself fluently
  • Produce clear, well-structured and detailed text

Level 6 – Advanced

  • Understand with ease virtually everything heard or said
  • Summarize information from different spoken and written sources
  • Express yourself spontaneously, fluently and precisely

This course is delivered face-to-face in a classroom-based setting. The timetable for this course will be advised in your Offer Letter and Student Agreement.

You are required to attend classes for 20 hours per week for the number of weeks that you enrolled into. This will depend on your English language level as tested through a placement test. Holiday breaks are as indicated in your timetable.

Class sessions include a mix of different activities to help you improve your English language skills.

In addition to classroom-based learning, you will also need to complete approximately 5 hours of additional, unsupervised study per week.

You will also need to complete assessments for this course which may include:  

  • Written questions 
  • Assignments 
  • Presentations 
  • Role plays  
  • Research  
  • Reports 

At the beginning of each unit, your teacher will outline the assessment tasks that must be completed. 

Your classes will be conducted in modern classrooms and you will be able to access Wi-Fi. There are also areas for you to relax, conduct additional study and access additional resources to help you with your course.