General English

Entry Requirements

Course Details

The General English course aims to teach you to speak English easily using the correct: spelling, vocabulary, grammar, appropriateness, intonation and with hard work and a bit of luck, pronunciation. The course also aims to teach you to listen to English being spoken by speakers from: The United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and all the parts of the world where our students come from. The course aims to teach you to write English clearly and in the English format. For academic writing we recommend you enroll in our EAP course or IELTS course after you have been assessed as upper intermediate. Finally, the General English course aims to teach you the English culture. Topics that are okay in some languages are not okay in English. Most English colleges forget to teach culture or only do so in a random way. At Mercury, this is part of our General English course. The academic culture that you need for university, is found in our EAP course and also our IELTS course. Entry Requirement: Students must be 18 years old or older at the time of enrolment. Levels: Weendeavour to consistently deliver classes pitched at each of our language levels. The class names have the following letters of the alphabet in them: Beginner Class A, Lower Elementary Class B, Elementary Class C, Pre-Intermediate Class D, Intermediate Class E, Upper Intermediate Class F, Advanced Class G. Classes starting every Monday.