29 English General Courses for adults in Cork

The Standard course offered by the Active Centre of English Training is their most in-demand programme, thanks to providing students with 20 hours of lessons per week, and in small groups where it’s easy to communicate with your friendly teachers and peers. In terms of the course content, students learn through a method that balances grammar and conversation skills, to ensure that you get the best of both worlds. Vocabulary, idioms and grammar are practised in an interesting and stimulating way to achieve fluency.This is the most popular course in ACET. The Standard English Course takes place every Monday morning. Lessons concentrate on building your knowledge of the language, focusing primarily on helping you increase your vocabulary and improving your grammar so that you attain the levels of accuracy you require. Lessons also work on improving your overall communicative proficiency and fluency, focusing on the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. - Small classes - Experienced and friendly teachers - Students from many countries - 15 or 20 hours of tuition per week - Detailed placement test - Balanced syllabus with a focus on grammar and communication skills - Course completion certificate

Standard Course plus 4 hours of TOEIC exam preparation per week. n class you will be introduced to all the exam tasks, learn many exam techniques and complete plenty of past and sample exam papers. You will also work on your grammar and vocabulary, improve your speaking, reading, listening and writing and also focus on formal English. At the end of your course you will take a mock exam and afterwards you will receive detailed feedback with tips for further self-study. Minimum level of English: B1 (Intermediate). This course is taken in conjunction with the standard course. Businesses, government agencies and other public and private organizations accept TOEIC scores. ACET is an authorised TOEIC Listening & Reading test centre.

General English courses are designed to give you the English language skills to live, work, study and travel in an English-speaking environment. They offer group English language courses to international students from Elementary level (CEF A1) to Advanced level (CEF C2). The syllabus is task-based, with students carrying out tasks in class to provide them with the necessary skills to manage using the English language in real-life situations.  The school also aims to make the syllabus student-centred, placing the emphasis on student training, enabling them to become more independent and providing them with practical skills to apply to their ongoing language learning when they finish their course.  However, they also have stated objectives and targeted learning outcomes which are achievable and measurable. The syllabus takes into consideration:  Skills versus grammar/vocabulary - taking into consideration the abilities and needs of the group. New language versus practice opportunities- ensuring a balance of input and revision  Outcomes- the stated outcomes of the syllabus and what the learners need to be able to do by the end of the module.  Each week the checklist of achievable outcomes will be posted on the wall of your classroom to be discussed with your teacher. Each time you are working on one of the weekly outcomes your teacher will identify it to you on the checklist. When you have completed an outcome and are able to achieve it, your teacher will tick it off of the checklist. 

This course includes medical insurance and learner protection insurance. This course is available for first visa enrolments, not extensions. Additional exam fees: - TIE EUR 130 - IELTS EUR 220 The GE15 course takes place Monday to Friday from 13:00 - 16:15, with a 15 minute break at 14:30. The school has every level from A1 to C1 and all 4 skills are dealt with during the classes: listening, reading, writing, speaking with an emphasis on spoken communication. All courses are designed to give students the language skills needed to communicate effectively and confidently in English and strategies necessary for learning English outside the classroom.

This course includes medical insurance and learner protection insurance. This course is available for first visa enrolments, not extensions. Additional exam fees: - TIE EUR 130 - IELTS EUR 220 The GE15 course takes place Monday to Friday from 09:00 - 12:15, with a 15 minute break at 11am. The school has every level from A1 to C1 and all 4 skills are dealt with during the classes: listening, reading, writing, speaking with an emphasis on spoken communication. All courses are designed to give students the language skills needed to communicate effectively and confidently in English and strategies necessary for learning English outside the classroom.

This is the most popular course in ACET. The Standard English Course takes place every Monday morning. Lessons concentrate on building your knowledge of the language, focusing primarily on helping you increase your vocabulary and improving your grammar so that you attain the levels of accuracy you require. Lessons also work on improving your overall communicative proficiency and fluency, focusing on the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. - Small classes - Experienced and friendly teachers - Students from many countries - 15 or 20 hours of tuition per week - Detailed placement test - Balanced syllabus with a focus on grammar and communication skills - Course completion certificate

The TOEFL test evaluates takers ability to use and understand English at university level. Most Irish and British universities accept TOEFL as an alternative to IELTS. It is also used by a growing number of companies as evidence of proficiency in English. This course is taken in conjunction with the standard course. In class you will be introduced to all the exam tasks, learn many exam techniques and complete plenty of past and sample exam papers. You will also work on your grammar and vocabulary, improve your speaking, reading, listening and writing and also focus on formal English. At the end of your course you will take a mock exam and afterwards you will receive detailed feedback with tips for further self-study.

The Intensive course consists of the general 20 hours in the morning. The extra 6 hours during the afternoons intensify the learning experience and focus on practical communication skills. Lessons concentrate on building your knowledge of the language, focusing primarily on helping you increase your vocabulary and improving your grammar so that you attain the levels of accuracy you require. Lessons also work on improving your overall communicative proficiency and fluency, focusing on the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. - Six afternoon hours focus on developing communication skills - Experienced and friendly teachers - Students from many countries - 26 hours of tuition per week - Balanced syllabus with a focus on grammar and communication skills - Course completion certificate

Standard Course plus 4 hours of IELTS exam preparation per week. In class you will be introduced to all the exam tasks, learn many exam techniques and complete plenty of past and sample exam papers. You will also work on your grammar and vocabulary, improve your speaking, reading, listening and writing and also focus on formal English. At the end of your course you will take a mock exam and afterwards you will receive detailed feedback with tips for further self-study. English speaking universities favour IELTS as an English language assessment. The IELTS preparation team are experienced, dedicated and focused on ensuring our students achieve the necessary IELTS score.

The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.

The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.

HLI’s home tuition programme gives prospective students the chance to study either English or Gaelic while living in the Irish city of Cork. You will be welcomed into your teacher’s home, where you will take 15 hours of private classes per week. All homes have been inspected as fit for purpose, and all teaching staff are qualified professionals that you can depend on to advance your language skills. Compared to taking language classes in a school, the home tuition programme from HLI lets you have access to constant communication opportunities from both your host family and the residents of the city of Cork. This is a major university city, with three important institutions all located centrally. This means that students of all descriptions feel at home, as the city is used to welcoming learners from around the world. You will receive three meals per day from your hosts, as this option includes full board. HLI asks guests to contact their Local Organiser staff in case they experience any issues with their course or accommodation. The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.

The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.

15 hours of private language lessons per week: • Accommodation in your teacher’s home. • Meals and social interaction with your host. Choose the number of language lessons you require and personalise your Programme according to your needs, interests and preferences with a multitude of options and specialisations to choose from. Some things cannot be learnt by studying in the traditional way, fluency is achieved through living the language, using the target language constantly and in your everyday life. Culture, entertainment, leisure and current events are embedded in people’s language and are as much part of the language-learning process as the lessons.

Internships are the perfect way to explore the world: living and working in a country allows you to meet great people, experience the culture by seeing it up close, and of course learn the language by speaking it every day. has developed a great program for students and professionals interested in their future career, starting from an excellent internship abroad. in offer both Professional and Entry-Level internships, to ensure that regardless of your profession, industry experience, second language skills, or qualifications levels, the school will find the right internship for you. **Requirements** - Each internship placement is customised depending on the profile of the candidate and the field required. - Fields available subject to host company requirements, education, language skills and duration of the internships. It includes: - 2 hours of Programme Orientation & Work in Ireland Workshop - Internship Placement (Internship will be full time Monday to Friday) - Accommodation in Host Family - City Walking Tour included

This programme consists of afternoon and evening activities per week, full day excursion on Saturdays, 2 city trips per week and additional city trip on Sunday (walking distance). Travel and medical insurance included, as well as daily updates for parents. Special Diet Supplement: EUR 50 per week.University College Cork, an 1845 University situated on the south coast in Ireland’s second largest city, is situated on 44 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds retaining its original school buildings as well as new modern buildings, accommodation and leisure facilities. The campus is ideally located just 15 minutes’ walk from Cork city centre and 2.5 hours’ drive from Dublin. There is an excellent sports complex on the campus with tennis courts, climbing wall, indoor and outdoor running tracks, dance & spin studios and extensive outdoor football/hockey pitches.

This standard Programme offers 15 hours of study per week, with a choice of morning or afternoon lessons. The Programme structure allows you to take full advantage of all the resources, facilities and support on offer, whilst giving you free time in the afternoon or the morning to do self-study, shop or relax.

The intensive English course students CEC Experience begins before they travel to Cork with an online English level test. This short test helps the school to place them in the best class for their success. Students will learn all the essentials of the English language through task-based methodology. While the communicative approach is central, they also consider the individual learning style of the students to ensure they achieve the best possible learning outcomes. All four language skills, Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking, are given the appropriate class time through the tailored academic syllabus. The intensive English course is for people who wish to: - Improve their English - Undertake a demanding course schedule - Gain an internationally recognised qualification - Maximise their time and learning in Ireland - Improve their job prospects - Build their overall confidence in using English - Have an enjoyable enriching experience Studying the intensive English course with Cork English College offers students the opportunity to gain proficiency in English while making friends and experiencing the rich cultural heritage Cork has to offer. The Intensive General English courses focus on helping you develop your overall English language skills through a variety of useful and engaging materials and activities. Every week will include: - Grammar and vocabulary – key learning points based on your specific needs and goals - A focus on speaking – classes are designed to maximise your speaking time - Extended fluency activities including discussions, role-plays, and presentations - Engaging listening and reading activities from a range of sources - A focus on social and intercultural English - Dedicated homework to support your grammar and vocabulary learning - Daily detailed error correction from your teacher for continuous improvement - End of week feedback to give you general guidance, direction and confidence on your English language learning journey The additional 6 hours in the afternoon are devoted to speaking, where students wishing to focus on improving their oral fluency can discuss and debate a wide variety of topics whilst being facilitated, motivated and corrected by an experienced teacher. It also gives the student the opportunity to further build on their vocabulary and put into practice what has been learned in the morning class.

The general English course students CEC Experience begins before they travel to Cork with an online English level test. This short test helps the school to place them in the best class for their success. Students will learn all the essentials of the English language through task-based methodology. While the communicative approach is central, they also consider the individual learning style of the students to ensure they achieve the best possible learning outcomes. All four language skills, reading, writing, listening and speaking, are given the appropriate class time through the tailored academic syllabus. The general English course is for people who wish to: - Improve their English - Experienced dedicated teachers - Gain an internationally recognised qualification - Improve their job prospects - Build their overall confidence in using English - Have an enjoyable enriching experience Studying English with Cork English College offers students the opportunity to gain proficiency in English while making friends and experiencing the rich cultural heritage Cork has to offer. The General English courses focus on helping you develop your overall English language skills through a variety of useful and engaging materials and activities. Every week will include: - Grammar and vocabulary – key learning points based on your specific needs and goals - A focus on speaking – classes are designed to maximise your speaking time - Extended fluency activities including discussions, role-plays, and presentations - Engaging listening and reading activities from a range of sources - A focus on social and intercultural English - Dedicated homework to support your grammar and vocabulary learning - Daily detailed error correction from your teacher for continuous improvement - End of week feedback to give you general guidance, direction and confidence on your - English language learning journey

The afternoon English course students CEC Experience begins before they travel to Cork with an online English level test. This short test helps the school to place them in the best class for their success. Students will learn all the essentials of the English language through task-based methodology. While the communicative approach is central, they also consider the individual learning style of our students to ensure they achieve the best possible learning outcomes. All four language skills, Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking, are given the appropriate class time through the tailored academic syllabus. The afternoon English classes are for people who wish to: - Improve their English - Gain an internationally recognised qualification - Improve their job prospects - Build their overall confidence in using English - Have an enjoyable enriching experience Studying English with Cork English College offers students the opportunity to gain proficiency in English while making friends and experiencing the rich cultural heritage Cork has to offer. The Afternoon English classes focuses on helping you develop your overall English language skills through a variety of useful and engaging materials and activities. Every week will include: - Grammar and vocabulary – key learning points based on your specific needs and goals - A focus on speaking – classes are designed to maximise your speaking time - Extended fluency activities including discussions, role-plays, and presentations - Engaging listening and reading activities from a range of sources - A focus on social and intercultural English - Dedicated homework to support your grammar and vocabulary learning - Daily detailed error correction from your teacher for continuous improvement - End of week feedback to give you general guidance, direction, and confidence on your English language learning journey

InTuition's courses are a unique combination of one-to-one lessons, delivered by a qualified and experienced specialist tutor, and full-board accommodation in that tutor's family home. You don't just learn during lessons: all day, every day, you are immersed in the language of study. Your confidence and fluency grow day-by-day as you learn the language in a structured, yet natural manner. The 3 Key Benefits of an InTuition course: 1. Amazing tutors: The secret to the success of the courses is simple. The organisation works with only the best host tutors, selected, resourced and supported by InTuition, so you can be confident in their quality and their commitment to providing the very best language learning experience. 2. More than just a language course: You and your host tutor can plan visits and excursions which are relevant to your interests, and organise specific activities in your free time. Real-life opportunities to use the language of study keep you talking and listening throughout your course, helping to boost your confidence and fluency. 3. Rapid progress: Choose from three to six hours per day of one-to-one tuition, based on your precise needs. Outside formal lessons, you will be in relaxed social situations, giving the opportunity to build and strengthen your confidence in the language of study.

InTuition's courses are a unique combination of one-to-one lessons, delivered by a qualified and experienced specialist tutor, and full-board accommodation in that tutor's family home. You don't just learn during lessons: all day, every day, you are immersed in the language of study. Your confidence and fluency grow day-by-day as you learn the language in a structured, yet natural manner. The 3 Key Benefits of an InTuition course: 1. Amazing tutors: The secret to the success of the courses is simple. The organisation works with only the best host tutors, selected, resourced and supported by InTuition, so you can be confident in their quality and their commitment to providing the very best language learning experience. 2. More than just a language course: You and your host tutor can plan visits and excursions which are relevant to your interests, and organise specific activities in your free time. Real-life opportunities to use the language of study keep you talking and listening throughout your course, helping to boost your confidence and fluency. 3. Rapid progress: Choose from three to six hours per day of one-to-one tuition, based on your precise needs. Outside formal lessons, you will be in relaxed social situations, giving the opportunity to build and strengthen your confidence in the language of study.

The course is designed for academic and higher education students who plan to pursue an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in an English-speaking country and it focuses on the formal language and academic skills required to succeed.Designed for Academic and Higher Education students who will study in English for some or all of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies, the Academic English programme enables the trainee to develop and practise the special and formal English language skills necessary to achieve academic success. The Academic English Courses are ideal for motivated students with clear objectives.

InTuition's courses are a unique combination of one-to-one lessons, delivered by a qualified and experienced specialist tutor, and full-board accommodation in that tutor's family home. You don't just learn during lessons: all day, every day, you are immersed in the language of study. Your confidence and fluency grow day-by-day as you learn the language in a structured, yet natural manner. The 3 Key Benefits of an InTuition course: 1. Amazing tutors: The secret to the success of the courses is simple. The organisation works with only the best host tutors, selected, resourced and supported by InTuition, so you can be confident in their quality and their commitment to providing the very best language learning experience. 2. More than just a language course: You and your host tutor can plan visits and excursions which are relevant to your interests, and organise specific activities in your free time. Real-life opportunities to use the language of study keep you talking and listening throughout your course, helping to boost your confidence and fluency. 3. Rapid progress: Choose from three to six hours per day of one-to-one tuition, based on your precise needs. Outside formal lessons, you will be in relaxed social situations, giving the opportunity to build and strengthen your confidence in the language of study.

The course is designed for academic and higher education students who plan to pursue an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in an English-speaking country and it focuses on the formal language and academic skills required to succeed.Designed for Academic and Higher Education students who will study in English for some or all of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies, the Academic English programme enables the trainee to develop and practise the special and formal English language skills necessary to achieve academic success. The Academic English Courses are ideal for motivated students with clear objectives.

InTuition's courses are a unique combination of one-to-one lessons, delivered by a qualified and experienced specialist tutor, and full-board accommodation in that tutor's family home. You don't just learn during lessons: all day, every day, you are immersed in the language of study. Your confidence and fluency grow day-by-day as you learn the language in a structured, yet natural manner. The 3 Key Benefits of an InTuition course: 1. Amazing tutors: The secret to the success of the courses is simple. The organisation works with only the best host tutors, selected, resourced and supported by InTuition, so you can be confident in their quality and their commitment to providing the very best language learning experience. 2. More than just a language course: You and your host tutor can plan visits and excursions which are relevant to your interests, and organise specific activities in your free time. Real-life opportunities to use the language of study keep you talking and listening throughout your course, helping to boost your confidence and fluency. 3. Rapid progress: Choose from three to six hours per day of one-to-one tuition, based on your precise needs. Outside formal lessons, you will be in relaxed social situations, giving the opportunity to build and strengthen your confidence in the language of study.

The Fast Track course in Cork is mostly targeted towards students at the Higher Education level who need to improve their English language skills in a relatively short period of time, although it’s also common to see students on this programme who are trying to improve their employment prospects. To make your move to the Irish city of Cork go as smoothly as possible, InTuition features homestay accommodation as a part of the programme. These hosts will welcome you into their home, provide you with a daily breakfast, lunch and dinner, and be a constant source of English conversation - which will help you tune your ear to the local accent. While out on your weekly excursions, you can look forward to visiting impressive sights such as Blarney and Blackrock Castle, or the nationally famous Fota Wildlife Park. Designed for Academic and Higher Education students who will study in English for some or all of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies, the Academic English programme enables the trainee to develop and practise the special and formal English language skills necessary to achieve academic success. The Academic English Courses are ideal for motivated students with clear objectives.