About This Course
This distance learning course which has been developed for non-native speakers of English will help you to learn how to speak and write English from the comfort of your own home.
From learning the alphabet and basic phrases, you will progress to talking about topics including family, work, hobbies and interests.
This course will give you a solid understanding of basic grammar and develop your communication skills in day to day English.
You have an entire year to complete this course, which means you can study at a pace that suits you without having to worry about deadliness.
Units
Unit 1: Learn the alphabet, pronunciation and phonetics. Discover useful phrases and greetings as you learn how to ask questions and start a conversation.
Unit 2: Discover the language needed for day to day conversations about family, home life, hobbies and interests. Learn how to describe people, discuss jobs and professions and explain your role.
Unit 3: Focuses on grammar; articles, nouns, subjects, verbs and objects. You will learn how to correctly use adjectives, verbs, tenses and prepositions.
Unit 4: Focuses on numbers, date and time. Discover days of the week, months of the year and the calendar. Learn how to express the time and date through related phrases and questions.
Unit 5: Teaches English phrases useful for common day to day situations. You will learn shopping phrases and how to make transactions in English. You will become competent at booking a restaurant and understanding the menu. This unit prepares you for conversing with a doctor and describing medical symptoms. You will learn about the structure of formal letter writing.
Assessment
Your progress is assessed by a series of assignments which are submitted to your tutor by post or email for marking. No external examination is necessary for this course.
Required Knowledge
No previous knowledge of the English language is required for our Introduction To English Level 2 course.
Awarding Body
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme. This means that OSC has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 2 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed by OSC to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications.
ABC Awards & Certa Awards endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
ABC Awards and Certa Awards have long-established reputations for providing high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. ABC Awards and Certa Awards combine over 180 years of expertise combined with a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.
Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, ABC Awards and Certa Awards also offer regulated qualifications for all ages and abilities post-14; all are developed with the support of relevant stakeholders to ensure that they meet the needs and standards of employers across the UK.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
Support
All course materials will be delivered by post or email for your convenience. Coursework is returned to your tutor via post or email for marking. Throughout the course you can contact your tutor via email at any time. We also have a dedicated student support team at your disposal.
Frequently Asked Questions
This is a question that our team are often asked, there are many reasons but here are the main reasons to choose Association of Learning:
- No hidden charges, the price you see includes everything, from VAT, tutoring to certification
- Our average tutor marking time is 3 working days (most providers are 10+)
- We are rated 5/5 for our service on Trustpilot!
- Our courses are up to date. Many providers create course content and fail to keep it up to date.
- We are open later than any other home learning provider
- As many submissions as you need to complete, many providers cap how many times you can submit work
- All courses are fully endorsed by external awarding organisations
- 14 day money back guarantee or course switch.
If you need any more reasons to choose Association of Learning, contact our team!
All students are provided with 12 months to complete their course, however you are able to complete at a faster pace without any additional costs. Some of our students have managed to complete in as little as 3 months!
This is a fully endorsed qualification, with certification provided by an Ofqual regulated awarding body.
There are two payment options, pay in full for your course or monthly. Our monthly payment option allows you to spread the cost of your course over a 10 month period.
If you choose to pay using a payment plan, to apply you must be able to answer yes to the following:
- Your billing address is based in the UK
- You have a UK based bank account
- Bill payer must be 18 or above.
No, this course is assignment based, which means you will not have to complete any exams. If your assignment doesn’t pass first time, you can retry as many times as you need within your 12 months support period.
No, all of our courses are distance learning which means your tutor will mark your work and send it back to you via email or by using our online portal.
Unlike other providers, Association of Learning use a fast-track system to get your certificate to you within six weeks (our average is two weeks).