English Program

  • LOCATION

    Dharavi, Mumbai

  • WHEN

    All Year

  • STUDENT AGE

    > 14 years

  • CLASS SIZE

    16 Max

English is an important skill for further study and better job opportunities. You may study in a local language at school, but most colleges and workplaces use English. This can make it harder for you to continue your education or do well in job interviews.

The NextStep Learning English Program offers courses at different levels based on your needs and goals. Classes are taught by trained teachers and focus on speaking, listening, and everyday communication. With regular practice and real-life examples, you build confidence and improve your English for college, work, and daily life.

Program Levels

Goal: To learn to read and write letters and understand basic greetings.

Suitable for students who:

  • Have never been to school and want to learn English
  • Cannot recognise or write letters
  • Do not understand English
  • Cannot answer basic questions

What you will learn:

  • Read and write capital and small letters
  • Pronounce sounds and make simple words
  • Understand and use greetings
  • Listen to very simple conversations about personal information
  • Learn everyday words for family, body parts, colours and clothes
  • Learn days, months and years
  • Use singular and plural words

Goal: To help learners understand and use basic expressions and simple phrases needed in daily life.

Suitable for students who:

  • Can recognise letters and know the alphabet
  • Can read small words
  • Can answer basic questions using one or two words
  • Struggle to make full sentences in the correct order

What you will learn:

  • Introduce themselves and talk about their family
  • Talk about likes, dislikes, clothes and abilities
  • Ask where things are (on, under, next to)
  • Ask for and understand directions
  • Understand simple instructions, questions and requests
  • Improve clear pronunciation of common words
  • Fill basic forms
  • Write short sentences and short texts
  • Use present, past and future forms
  • Use joining words like and, but, because

Goal: To enable learners to handle everyday communication in daily life, college, and work.

Suitable for students who:

  • Can form sentences but struggles with grammar
  • Want to improve grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation
  • Want to speak independently on basic topics

What you will learn:

  • Talk about past experiences and events
  • Describe people, places and things clearly
  • Ask for and understand travel information
  • Listen for important details
  • Improve pronunciation of common spoken English
  • Write short emails and clear descriptions
  • Use future forms (will and going to)
  • Use comparisons (bigger, best, more)
  • Use helping verbs like must, should, can, could
  • Use time and place words correctly

Goal: To develop confident, independent language use across everyday, work, and college situations.

Suitable for students who:

  • Want to improve fluency
  • Want to revise and strengthen grammar

What you will learn:

  • Share opinions and agree or disagree politely
  • Give short presentations and answer questions
  • Make, accept and refuse invitations
  • Use basic phone English
  • Make suggestions and give advice
  • Use linking words (but, because, so)
  • Talk about preferences (I prefer, I’d rather)
  • Report what someone said
  • Talk about real and possible situations
  • Use time and place words more confidently
  • Write clear factual descriptions
  • Write simple formal emails and letters

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