Certificate of English: your choices

Choose your course duration

Fully flexible - choose from 2 weeks to 1 year

Choose the number of lessons per week:

20 lessons per week - Course name: 'Standard 20'*

Timetable - half day each day - lessons may be in the mornings OR afternoons. 
Focus - Core skills of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading, speaking, listening and writing.

Please note: we try hard to arrange morning lessons but cannot guarantee all lessons are morning only.

*Not available in Australia; here, you can choose from 24 or 28 lessons per week

or

24 lessons per week  - Course name: 'Intensive 24' **

Timetable - 24 core lessons per week mornings, 8 elective lessons per week
Focus - Core skills, as above, plus a broader range of elective subjects, see below. 

**Only available in Australia, New Zealand, Oxford, Fort Lauderdale and San Francisco

or 

28 lessons per week  - Course name: 'Intensive 28'

Timetable - 20 lessons per week mornings, 8 elective lessons per week afternoons
Focus - Core skills, as above, plus a broader range of elective subjects, see below.

Each lesson lasts for 50 minutes

Electives

Electives classes are tailored to your level and help you maximise progress,
concentrate on specific areas and make your studies more varied and interesting

Elementary and Pre-Intermediate electives help you:

• Speak more confidently
• Understand spoken English quickly
• Improve the basics of grammar  

Intermediate and Upper Intermediate electives help you:

• Widen vocabulary and idioms of chosen location
• Improve business communciation skills  
• Prepare for exams
• Improve high-level grammar
• Improve writing and conversation

Intermediate and above electives

Allow you to focus on areas of interest, for example current affairs, advanced business communication skills and strategies for mastering exams.

Embassy Promise

If you don't progress to the next level as indicated on our progress chart, you can stay for free additional lessons until you do. Read more.