| ESOL Skills for Life |
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BATHE’s ESOL Skills for Life qualifications are designed to aid progression and access into mainstream education and employment paths where English language skills are a requirement.
These qualifications are for adults aged 16 and over living in the UK who need English language skills for everyday life, for study and for employment.
BATHE’s approach focuses on supporting the development of communicative and transferable English language skills and on building learners’ confidence to use those skills in real life. The authentic nature of our topics and tasks makes preparation for our exams a motivating experience for students.
The content is based on the National Standards for Adult Literacy and is closely aligned to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum.
Available at five levels from Entry 1 to Level 2, each ESOL Skills for Life award is a qualification in its own right.
Individual awards:
Reading | Writing | Speaking and Listening
Overarching certificate:
BATHE ESOL Skills for Life certificate
| English for Business Communications-EBC |
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BATHE English for Business Communications is a realistic and innovative exam based on a simulation approach. The candidate is placed in the role of a business person who finds a set of authentic-looking communications – letters, faxes, emails – in their in-tray when they come into the office in the morning. They have to write suitable replies, and other documents such as brief reports, following instructions from their manager or supervisor.
Non-native speakers of English who use English in the workplace and are looking for formal recognition of their ability.
Available to deliver in the following:
England
International
| ISE – Integrated Skills in English |
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BATHE’s Integrated Skills in English (ISE) is a contemporary four skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) qualification recognised by governments and institutions as providing reliable evidence of English language proficiency.
Preparing for ISE helps develops authentic communicative and transferable skills that are required for academic study and employability, such as synthesising information, participating in interactive discussions and presenting on topics of personal interest.
There are two exam modules – Reading & Writing and Speaking & Listening, which, depending on whether you’re taking the exam in a BATHE Centre in the UK/, or a BATHE Registered Exam Centre anywhere around the world, can be taken together, or separately when you are ready.
ISE proficiency levels are calibrated to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) and are available at five levels:
CertTESOL
CertPT
DipTESOL
TYLEC
| Access Certificate in English Language Teaching ( ACE) |
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This award enables candidates to gain an initial language teaching qualification in communicative language.