English Language Partners 
Southland

Centre area - Invercargill

Manager Nalini Varghese

Address 184 Esk Street, Invercargill
Phone (03) 218 2736
Fax (03) 218 2736
Email southland@englishlanguage.org.nz

Interested in working as a volunteer tutor? You'll be trained to teach English to adults from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Free NZQA-approved, ESOL home tutor course. Telephone  or email us  for more information.  

Certificate in ESOL Home Tutoring 

Course dates 2009

Tuesdays  10, 17 and 24  March  
5.30pm to 8.30 p.m.

Saturdays 14 and 28 March
9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learners

Are you  from a non-English speaking background wanting  to learn English or improve your English skills? Our volunteer tutors  can provide tuitions of one hour per week at your home. Our services are free for all permanent residents and citizens of New Zealand.

 We also provide the following group classes at our centre:

Centre activities

Waitangi Day

On Waitangi day (Friday 6 February 2009) our centre organised a trip to Bluff to attend the Ngai Tahu Treaty of Waitangi Day celebrations at the Te Rau Aroha Marae.

It was a wonderful day and a great cultural experience for our learners, tutors and their families. Our group also visited the Bluff Maritime Museum which has interesting displays of shipwrecks, whaling and oystering vessels as well as paintings and artefacts from the days of the early European settlers.

On the marae we were given a wonderful welcome followed by a delicious traditional lunch. Other interesting items on the programme were a demonstration of "poha" (bags made from kelp for preserving mutton-birds) and a video presentation about the restoration of Titi Island.

The trip was part funded by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage through their Commemorating Waitangi Day Fund.