Preparing for Life in the UK - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

This course is designed to help beginner ESOL learners build the essential English language skills, vocabulary, and cultural understanding they need to engage more confidently with life in the UK. Using accessible visuals and activities adapted from English for Work by Mark Evans, the course introduces key topics relevant to community life, public services, national identity, and local customs.

You will practise speaking, listening, reading, and writing through context-rich tasks including photo matching, sentence construction, role-plays, and functional tasks such as filling in maps and forms. The course supports entry into further learning and prepares learners for daily communication in community and public settings.

By joining this course, you will be able:

• To equip learners with vocabulary and sentence structures relevant to UK geography, history, and daily life

• To develop learners’ confidence in understanding signs, instructions, and public information

• To support learners to participate in UK traditions, access local services, and understand basic rights and responsibilities

• To improve learners' basic grammar and communication skills for civic engagement and employability

• To align with EMCCA goals for increasing community participation, reducing social isolation, and preparing disadvantaged residents for further education or employment

What you will need to bring to the course:

1) Paper

2) Pen

3) English for work: Mark Evans

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.