English Language Courses
Learning another language is exciting – and challenging… and we’ll help you to be successful.
Join a group course for a minimum of two weeks or have private lessons for a week or longer. Join a class on any Monday (except Public Holidays) after writing a test to assess your level. Each lesson lasts fifty minutes.
Morning classes run from Monday to Friday. Afternoon classes (private and group lessons) run Monday to Thursday, with Friday afternoons free for you to explore Cape Town – or go further away for a long weekend.
We want you to use English confidently and appropriately in many different situations. The inlingua International course books and other relevant texts are used in lessons with supplementary materials taken from newspapers, magazines or the internet, CD or DVD.
Whether you are in a group or working 1-1 with a trainer, we use effective materials and teaching strategies and balance accuracy and fluency practice to enable you to develop your listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary skills quickly and easily.
Different tasks and activities will motivate you and meet your needs. Interactive CD Roms give extra practice in specific areas. Discussions on videos and articles on different topics, including South Africa, give you an awareness of the cultural and social history of this country and encourage you to share ideas.
You will have regular evaluation meetings with your trainer/s to make sure that you make excellent progress – and individual help with pronunciation or any other area you or your trainer feel is important.
General Purpose Programme (GPP)
Lessons: 20 group lessons per week
Times: 09h00 – 12h40.
This course will help you communicate effectively in everyday situations. GPP focuses on developing listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and extending vocabulary – and introducing the grammar to support that.
General Purpose Plus Programme (GPP+)
Lessons: 30 group lessons per week
Times: 09h00 – 12h40; 13h30 – 15h35, Monday to Thursday.
Communicate effectively in everyday situations. Develop listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary – with the additional afternoon lessons helping to build confidence and fluency through general discussion and conversation.
Intensive Programmes (IP)
IP20+5
Lessons: 20 lessons of general group English and 5 private lessons per week.
Times: 09h00 – 12h40 (group) + 2.5 lessons 13h30 – 15h35 Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs
This enables clients to combine group interaction in the mornings with private lessons in the afternoon to focus on a specific area of interest or consolidate any areas needing additional input.
Popular options here include work on grammar or pronunciation.
IP20+10
Lessons: 20 lessons of general group English and 10 private lessons per week.
Times: 09h00 – 12h40 (group) + 13h30 – 15h35 Mon – Thursday (Private)
One of our most popular courses, this enables clients to combine group interaction in the mornings with 1-1 training in the afternoons, to focus on general or business areas of specific interest.
Most clients choose business options and focus on developing presentation skills, telephone skills, managing meetings or areas such as finance, HR, sales and marketing.
IP30+5
Lessons: 30 group lessons and 5 individual lessons per week
Times: 09h00 – 12h40 (group); 13h30 – 15h35 (group) + 15h45 -16h50 (1-1) Mon-Thurs. The aims of the group lessons are the same as in the GPP+.
The individual lesson each day focuses on your specific needs – pronunciation, giving presentations, writing letters or reports, “travel” English, telephoning etc
Business English Programmes
General Purpose Programme/Accelerated Professional Programme (GPP/APP)
Lessons: 30 group lessons per week (20 General English/10 Business English)
Times: 09h00 – 12h40 (group general Eng) + 13h30 – 15h35 (group Business) Mon-Thurs.
This course is designed for business/professional people and combines the GPP with the English needed at work/in business, particularly in areas such as giving presentations, business writing, communicating effectively on the telephone, negotiating, participating in meetings and socialising with international clients.
Trainers often work with a number of clients from the same company, which enables them to build up considerable knowledge and expertise in that area.
We also prepare clients for the University of Cambridge Business English Certificates – BEC 1, 2 and 3
Accelerated Professional Programme (APP)
20 lessons per week of business English
Times: 09h00 – 12h40
This group programme in the morning is for business clients who want a course with a more intensive business focus. It leaves the afternoons free for 1-4 private lessons each day to focus on individual needs.
Professional Development Programme (PDP)
30 to 40 hours of business English + lunch with trainer + excursion
Times: 09h00 – 12h40 + 13h30 – 15h35 + more if required
This is a very intensive 1-1 business English programme of 30-40 hours per week. It includes lunch with a trainer each day and a Saturday excursion to the winelands or Cape Point.
Individual Intensive Programme (IIP)
5 – 40 private lessons per week.
Times: flexible
This can be added on to a group course or booked separately. Textbooks used internationally form the core of the course and materials are adapted or designed to meet your needs.
English Plus+++
If you have a specific area of interest – e.g. wine tasting, sailing, golf or SCUBA-diving, we can arrange some private lessons to include some of the vocabulary needed. We can also arrange those activities for you in the afternoons or over weekends.
English for Examination Purposes
We prepare candidates for the Cambridge First, Advanced and Proficiency exams (FCE/CAE/CPE).
These can be written in Cape Town or in your home country.
The Intensive examination preparation classes (25 group lessons per week + self study) start 6 weeks before the examinations.
Please contact us for the dates.
Those who are not at the level required or who want some extra input are welcome to join us before the 6-week intensive exam course begins. Many students add on another 2, 4 or 6 weeks, depending on how much work is needed.
Preparation for IELTS, TOEFL, GMAT and BEC exams is generally done one-to-one.
Closed mini-groups
These are designed specifically for a group with similar interests or for colleagues from the same company. Participants should be at a similar level.
Closed groups can be added on to the GPP or IIP morning programme – to give a specific focus or provide opportunity for discussion – or run in the mornings from 09h00-12h40.
Learn English on Safari – only with inlingua!
Travel with a teacher and different tour guides, exploring the Garden Route, seeing the wild animals Africa is famous for, and also dolphins and whales (July-Nov)
See full details in that section of the website.
Language training consultancy work
inlingua Cape Town also offers tailor-made packages for companies wanting a specific course or combination of courses for one or many employees on site.
If you need to develop very specific English for banking, finance, HR or Real Estate – or prepare for a presentation or public speech, we have the skills and trainers to help.
