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General English (GE) is a course program that is developed to prepare students to master English language used in daily situations. There are four communication skills or fluency which they must have listening, speaking, reading, writing. Interactive English learning styles should be the emphasis of General English to encourage students to practice their skills. Before a student can take a GE class, he or she has to take a placement test. It is a kind of proficiency assessment test. The result of the test determines the right level (basic, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate, pre advanced, advanced) he or she is suitable for.

One level program is usually conducted within 60 - 90 class hours added with home-works and achievement tests. Classroom teaching and learning activities are conducted using textbooks (mostly published by Longman) as the main course material. Some of them are Spectrum, True Colors, Opportunities, and  New Vista. Teachers can read or play the cassette recordings of the sample conversations and pronunciation practice at during the classroom activity and then develop the content of the conversations into grammar explanation and exercises and discussion of certain topics that will enrich the students with new words and phrases. Writing exercises are usually conducted using the work books which can be done in the classroom or at home depending on the amount of time allocated by the teachers to accomplish one level of the course program. When all the levels of General English have been accomplished by the students, they should be able to use their English in ever day situations as expected from the objective of the course program.

English for Basic Level