This is a general English course offered at all five colleges of PAAET which include Technological, Nursing, Health, and Business Studies as well as the College of Basic Education. This is a 3-contact hour pre-intermediate (A2-B1) level course that aims to build on students’ existing knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and to expand their oral/aural skills in English.  The course focuses on developing the communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in real-life situations. With an emphasis on academic English skills, the course aims to further focus on applying the reading strategies of skimming and scanning the text as well as the basic writing skills of paragraph organization and paragraph writing. The pre-requisite for this course is either passing the EPT exam or the remedial course 0.