There's nothing like good English skills to give you brighter prospects. Our range of courses are designed to help you improve your understanding of written and spoken English for everyday use. You'll learn about reading, writing and spelling as well as listening and speaking.
Word Skills Check
This is an easy way to check the skills you already have and see which ones you need to improve. It gives you a great idea of what computer based learning is like. Once completed it will also help you and your tutor choose which courses are right for you. It covers a range of topics and will show you the learning you need to do before you get a qualification.
A Way With Words
A Way With Words helps you develop the reading and writing skills you use on a daily bases. It gives you practical assistance through a range of engaging and enjoyable exercises. There are a number of level and different sections, so you can pick and choose that parts that are right for you, depending on your ability.
The courses will help you develop:
- Speaking and listening skills - including exercises that help you think about body language, giving clear instructions and getting involved in group discussions.
- Writing skills - using colons, apostrophes and thinking about structure and style.
- Reading skills - from basic understanding of everyday signs through to reading technical text and making summaries of long passages.
Spellers
This is the perfect course if you find spelling tricky. It will guide you through the basic rules for spelling and help you improve your written English. Based in a department store, the course allows you to wonder through the different departments, practicing your spelling as you go.
Spelling It Out
Spelling it out takes a close look at spelling. It gives you hints and tips on how to improve your own spelling, how to spot mistakes and how to remember difficult words, which may be helpful in the workplace.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint is a quick and simple way to practice and improve punctuation skills. It's a fun course and provides clear rules that you'll be able to apply to all your writing. You'll learn to:
- Use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
- Group sentences into paragraphs.
- Use colons and semi-colons.
- Use dashes and hyphens.
- Use commas in lists and in sentences.
- Use apostrophes correctly.
There's also a printable rule book so you'll never forget what you've learnt.
Better Letters
Complete this course and you'll be able to write effective letters. The better letter course works alongside Microsoft Word to help you improve your letter writing skills. You'll tackle both formal letters such as job applications and informal letters to friends. You'll also be shown how to use email.
Living Room
With Living Room you can try out learning before you can choose a course. Set in a virtual living room, you can improve the design of a room by changing wallpaper and furniture and putting up shelves. These tasks will give you good practice in listening to and following instructions.
Word On The Street
In this video, the presenter gets himself into some fast moving, fast talking fixes in the street - it's up to you to sort them out.