General English (GE) Elementary to Upper Intermediate – (CRICOS: 110455J)

Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate

11 Weeks per level.

Starting dates

• You can start any week (except holidays – contact us)

Visas

• Any visa which allows you to study in Australia, including student visa, working holiday visa and tourist visa (some visas may limit the total number of study weeks)

Qualification codes

• 110455J

Qualification Status

• Current

• You must be over 18.
• If the student is opting ELICOS packaged with any vocational course, the student is required to demonstrate IELTS of 5.0 or equivalent.

It’s for anyone who would like to improve their English in a general way! It covers English that is useful in everyday life. If you want to improve your English for university, higher education, TAFE or VET study and your English level is Intermediate and higher, then please see our EAP course.

The course covers all areas of English: speaking, listening, writing and reading. To help you with these skills, there will also be plenty of vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. We focus on the English that is most important to most people – that is, real life English.

At Protea College, we believe that people learn best when they are enjoying themselves, are interested in what they are learning and when the study is similar to real life. We also believe that people learn by doing – that is, to learn to speak English, people have to do a lot of speaking practice, and to listen more easily, people have to do lots of listening practice.

Therefore, in your lessons you will do a lot of practice in real-life situations. There will be a lot of discussions, role-plays, reading of interesting magazine articles and websites, writing to communicate with people around the world, and listening to people with a range of accents.

Each week has a different topic. Topics are chosen to be useful to you in real life and to be interesting. From time to time you will also go outside class to practise English in the real world.

Will there be any assessment?: There will be formative tests, and teachers will also give you marks for homework and class activities such as speaking. Assessment will help you to see your progress, so that teachers can find which areas to give extra attention to. All assessment is very supportive – completely different from exams at school!

When you finish your course, we will give you a certificate and a report. This shows your grades and the levels you studied at.

For all further details, please refer to International Student Handbook available on www.protea.edu.au for all related policies and procedures and other important information related to international students including Covid-19, living cost, life and study in Melbourne, etc.

Please contact the Administration Manager at admissions@protea.edu.au or at +61 (3) 9008 4537 for further information.

Classroom based.

Delivery locations:

• Melbourne: Suit 1, Level 3, 398 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC 3000

180 per week for onshore, 200 per week for offshore