This course arises from an admission that English is an important link language in today’s world, and that it is necessary to be a competent communicator in this language if one is to understand, analyse and participate in any contemporary debates and discussions, no matter what one’s core interest might be. Hence, the larger objective of this course is to enable learners to progressively become confident and articulate communicators in English. We will approach the English language from a communicative and functional perspective, such that students can become familiar with the reading, writing, listening and speaking of English within the contexts most relevant to them, and through these, also revisit the fundamentals of grammar and vocabulary that they may have learnt previously.