The Pre-Intermediate Australian English Language Course (PIAELC) is a 12-week course that aims to assist learners with an entry-level of ADFELPS 4 to develop all four language macro-skills:

1. Speaking
2. Reading
3. Listening
4. Writing

Course aim

The course aims to raise awareness of strategies and build competencies that will result in an exit score of ADFELPS level 5.

This course is expected to provide a pathway for many learners to progress on to the Intermediate Australian English Language Course (IAELC).

The course also focuses on foundation-level academic skills and will include excursions and whole-class activities that further activate the language learned.

Course content includes:

• Improving listening and speaking
• Active learning and language for the classroom
• Critical thinking
• Improving reading and writing
• Learning vocabulary
• Language development
• Grammar
• Academic writing skills
• Guided self-study
• Vlogs
• Listening
• Speaking tasks
• Reading
• Watch and listen tasks
• And more..

Assessments and Guidance Officer (GO) sessions are also included, along with organised sport every Thursday and field trips to explore Melbourne.

Key resources

To support your learning, you will be supplied with the books below. They will act as further support and give you the chance to do some extra reading before and after lessons:

Unlock 2: Reading, Writing & Critical Thinking - student's book by R O'Neill, M Lewis & C Sowton	Unlock 2: Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking - student's book by S Dimon-Bayir, K Russell & C Sowton
Essential Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy	Cambridge Learner's Dictionary by Cambridge University Press