Certificate in English Communication

This course is designed for adults (16+) from non-English-speaking backgrounds—especially expatriate spouses and parents in Singapore—who want practical confidence using English in everyday life. The programme prioritises Speaking and Listening for real-world situations, with abundant role-plays, guided conversations, and pronunciation work.
Delivered in two sequential modules aligned to international benchmarks — Module 1 (A2 Key/KET) and Module 2 (B1 Preliminary/PET) — the course builds from essential survival English to confident, independent communication. The course will enable learners to gain functional English communication skills for daily life, thereby improving their ability to integrate into English-speaking communities and opening doors for social, academic, or work opportunities that require English.
This course aims to:
▪ Build Communicative Confidence: Help students overcome hesitation and speak English with greater confidence in general social and transactional settings (e.g. making small talk, asking for information, expressing needs).
▪ Improve Listening Comprehension: Train students to understand spoken English in a variety of common accents and contexts, focusing on grasping main ideas and key details from conversations, announcements, or instructions.
▪ Develop Everyday Vocabulary and Grammar: Equip learners with a solid foundation of vocabulary and grammatical structures relevant to daily life topics (such as family, shopping, food, transportation, health, etc.), enabling them to create simple but correct sentences.
▪ Achieve CEFR A2 to B1 Proficiency: Guide students to attain language proficiency corresponding to CEFR A2 (at the end of Module 1) and CEFR B1 (at the end of Module 2). This means learners will progress from basic users who can communicate in simple ways to independent users who can handle most routine tasks in English.
▪ Foster Interactive Skills: Provide abundant practice in real-life communication scenarios (through role-plays, group activities, and simulations) so that students can interact with both native and nonnative English speakers in a culturally appropriate manner. The ultimate goal is for graduates to satisfy basic communicative needs in a range of everyday situations without reliance on translation.