General English (059870M)

Enhance your English skills at Mercury Colleges in Sydney! Suitable for international students, our course covers speaking, listening, and writing. Apply now!

Program Description 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 also aims to teach you to read English in common contexts: magazines subtitles labels advertising instructions newspapers short stories forms surveys social media lyrics signage 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 IELST course after you have been assessed as upper intermediate. Writing includes: addresses emails text messages business letters your resume short stories 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.