ESOL for Work - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

The course is designed for learners who are new to English or returning to education and is aligned to local employability needs across sectors like hospitality, logistics, health, and community services.

You will build your English vocabulary and confidence around jobs, routines, and real-life work situations. You will practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills needed for work and everyday life in the UK. This course will help you understand simple instructions, describe your job and routines, and complete basic work forms.

By the end of this course, you will:

Recognise and name common job roles and work-related vocabulary

Use basic sentence structures to describe routines and personal information

Read short instructions, rotas, and signs confidently

Complete simple forms with accurate spelling and layout

Ask for and give information in a work or health-related context

Build confidence to engage with further ESOL or work-based learning

The below resources are required for the course:

1) Paper

2) Pen

3) English for work: Mark Evans

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.