About Us
Southern Lakes English College offers a range of intensive English programs to suit any student throughout their journey to learn English, providing expert help to students in any stage of academic life.
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Our expert staff make it easy for you to achieve your English goals and prepare you for success in a wide range of contexts, including for further study and for business.
Our lessons include a varied approach to learning English, allowing you to develop confidence when using English in both academic and informal settings.
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Speaking
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Classes have a strong emphasis on communication.
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You will be encouraged to use a wide range of vocabulary.
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Each class provides opportunities to practice your pronunciation skills and you will learn to communicate confidently and accurately with other English speakers.
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Listening
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You will engage in listening to a wide range of both formal and informal language.
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Learning will include a variety of accents from around the English-speaking world.
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Reading
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You will read a variety of genres and learn techniques for comprehension.
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You will learn how to employ devices such as skimming and scanning, prediction and inference to find and process information.
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Writing
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You will be taught elements of several different writing genres, including techniques required to structure text in an appropriate way.
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Our teachers will instruct you in a wide range of grammatical devices, and you will learn how to use both academic and informal vocabulary in a written context.
Classes
We have classes available for different levels of English speaking with the ability to rise levels as students progress.
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Elementary 🡺 Pre-Intermediate 🡺 Intermediate 🡺 Upper Intermediate 🡺 Advanced 🡺 IELTS/PTE
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Queenstown campus offers an exam preparation class for the IELTS exam
Invercargill campus offers an exam preparation class for the Pearson PTE exam.
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