ESOL Reading E1-E3 online - Online Courses - Adult Learning

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	26 September 2025 - 13 February 2026
Sessions	Fridays: 9:30am - 12pm
No. sessions	17
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	Free

About this course

This course will be taught online but will have exams at Beeston library in January and February 2025. Please make sure that you will be able to get to this venue.

This course aims to teach beginner English skills to people who speak English as a second language. This course is designed for speakers of other languages who want to improve their English and gain an ESOL Entry level 1-3 Reading qualification. Our experienced staff will help you to improve your reading, writing and speaking and listening. You will gain confidence in these skills and will then focus on developing your reading, comprehension and understating skills further in order to then pass a qualification. You will start by doing an initial assessment, in order to decide with your tutor which level you will be working at from Entry level 1 -3 . You will be assessed near the end of the course on and once you have successfully completed this you will receive a City and Guilds ESOL Reading qualification.

Please make sure that you can attend the lessons each week before enrolling on the course.

All resources that you need will be supplied by the tutor, but you may wish to have your own notebook to work in as well.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.