21st Century Communication Skills: Life Skills through English | Course Introduction

Future Learning believes that all learners choose to study English for a purpose and our courses are designed with a sense of that purpose; personal, social, professional and academic. Future Learning also emphasises the importance of learner autonomy, and our courses invite the learner to take responsibility for their progress, help them to develop their learning skills and the ability to develop themselves.

Future Learning’s Adult Course is divided into three stages according to English language level. At each stage the exit criteria are those specified in the relevant Integrated Skills Exam (ISE) for ILEP purposes by Trinity College London.

Stage 1: Life Skills Through English – Levels A2 to B1

Learner Profile

The initial stage of our course is designed to help people to make a life in Ireland through English and deal successfully with all the situations that will arise at home, socially and work if taking a part-time job. It aims to help develop communication skills that consider the cultural as well as the linguistic challenges to successful communication in English.

Learner Outcomes at B1

By the end of the course, participants will have

• improved their communication, collaboration, creative problem solving, and critical thinking skills to enable them to do the following in English and through technology in a personal context:
• understood the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, and day to day life
• dealt with most situations likely to arise whilst living in an area where the language is spoken
• produced simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest
• described personal experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.