In Discussion Circle, you will sharpen your speaking, listening, debating and presentation skills through exploring news, articles and documentaries on a variety of fascinating topics such as art, sports, psychology, food, science and technology. You will express and support opinions, build and use a wide range of vocabulary and present ideas in class.
Expand your voice and take your English into the real world. English Communication is designed for intermediate to advanced learners who want to use English confidently in everyday life, travel, work, and social situations. This dynamic, task‑based course builds the practical skills you need to communicate clearly and effectively across a wide range of real‑world contexts.
What You Will Learn
- Understand and respond to real‑world English, progressing from everyday conversations and short texts to extended discussions and authentic materials.
- Build speaking fluency, accuracy and pronunciation, developing from short exchanges to confident participation in longer conversations, debates, and group discussions.
- Write for personal and professional purposes, moving from clear paragraphs to organized emails, narratives, and opinion pieces.
- Use grammar and vocabulary in context, expanding from common structures to more complex language and topic‑specific expressions.
- Manage everyday interactions, expressing opinions, giving advice, making requests and navigating conversations with ease.
- Manage everyday interactions, expressing opinions, giving advice, making requests and navigating conversations with ease.
- Manage everyday interactions, expressing opinions, giving advice, making requests and navigating conversations with ease.
- Develop mediation and intercultural communication skills, including summarising, clarifying meaning, adapting information and supporting cross‑cultural understanding.
- Grow your confidence and autonomy by taking risks, self‑correcting, and using English in meaningful ways beyond the classroom.
Take your communication to the next level and expand your voice in English with practical skills you can use every day.
Find your voice in English and build the skills to use it confidently. English Foundation is a learner‑centred, beginner to pre‑intermediate course designed to help you build strong everyday communication skills. Through practical, real‑world tasks, you’ll develop your speaking, listening, reading and writing while gaining the confidence to use English in your studies, your workplace, and your community.
What You Will Learn:
- Understand and use everyday English from simple phrases to short conversations and texts.
- Speak more clearly and confidently in familiar situations.
- Use functional language to ask questions, make requests, and express needs.
- Write simple sentences and short paragraphs for personal and classroom communication.
- Build grammar and vocabulary through real‑world use.
- Strengthen thinking and mediation skills through guided and interactive tasks.
- Develop independence by applying English both inside and outside the classroom.
Start your English journey with purpose and find your voice in a course designed to empower your learning and your life.
Express your ideas with clarity, energy, and impact. Speaking Dynamics is designed for intermediate learners who want to develop stronger expressive language skills through authentic materials and meaningful, real‑world speaking tasks. From scripting and performing to debating and using persuasive language, you’ll learn how to communicate your ideas clearly, confidently and effectively across a range of everyday and academic contexts.
What You Will Learn
- Enhance speaking fluency and accuracy through discussions, debates, presentations, and performance‑based tasks.
- Develop effective interpersonal and communication skills for a range of social and academic situations.
- Use listening and reading strategies to engage with authentic materials such as news articles and websites.
- Improve planning and organisational skills to support structured speaking tasks, while also developing written accuracy.
- Expand grammar and vocabulary to express ideas with greater nuance and precision.
- Build confidence in public speaking, using persuasive techniques and expressive delivery.
- Apply useful functional language across real‑life scenarios and everyday interactions.
Speak with clarity, communicate with purpose, and bring real presence to every interaction.
Elevate your expression, communicate with precision, confidence and style. Speaking Excellence is designed for upper‑intermediate and advanced learners who are ready to refine their spoken English and elevate their overall communicative proficiency. Through impromptu presentations, structured discussions, debates and other authentic speaking tasks, you’ll learn to respond with confidence, clarity and sophistication in real‑life situations.
What You Will Learn
- Refine your speaking fluency and accuracy through advanced discussions, debates and professional‑style presentations.
- Strengthen interpersonal and communication skills, responding thoughtfully and effectively in diverse contexts.
- Apply advanced listening and reading strategies using authentic texts such as news articles, reports, and websites.
- Improve planning and organisational skills, as well as writing accuracy for speeches, notes, and structured tasks.
- Expand your command of grammar and vocabulary, enabling you to express nuance, complexity, and tone with precision.
- Build strong public speaking skills, including confidence, delivery, persuasive techniques, and clear articulation.
- Use functional and strategic language in real‑world scenarios, from professional interactions to academic discussions.
Elevate your English, refine your communication, and excel in conversations that demand clarity, confidence and impact.
Learn how to communicate and express yourself more confidently. Improve your fluency and learn new ways to express yourself for positive, clear and open communication. This is a fluency class with lots of fun speaking and non-verbal behaviour activities.
Learn how to present your opinions and discuss them with other students. Debating will build your speaking fluency, note-taking, critical thinking and listening skills. You will have fun learning how to debate on a wide variety of interesting topics.
Strengthen your foundation—use English with accuracy, clarity, and confidence. The Grammar elective helps you build stronger control of English grammar so you can communicate more accurately and naturally in everyday situations. Through interactive activities, guided discovery, and meaningful practice, you will deepen your understanding of key structures and learn how to use them confidently in real conversations, writing tasks, and daily interactions.
What You Will Learn
- Increase fluency and accuracy when using grammar in everyday speaking and writing.
- Use common structures and tenses more accurately and appropriately across different contexts.
- Recognise the differences between spoken and written grammar and adjust your language accordingly.
- Identify, understand, and correct common errors, building long‑term control and confidence.
- Practise grammar through guided activities and communication tasks, making it practical and relevant.
Build the accuracy you need, the confidence you deserve, and the foundation that strengthens everything you do in English.
Speak clearly. Be understood. Communicate with confidence. The Pronunciation elective helps you improve the clarity and comprehensibility of your spoken English so you can communicate more confidently in everyday situations. This course does not aim to change your accent—instead, it focuses on making your speech easier for others to understand while celebrating the value of your linguistic and cultural identity.
What You Will Learn
- Improve clarity and comprehensibility in your spoken English across a range of real‑world contexts.
- Practise discrete sounds, word stress, and sentence stress through targeted activities.
- Develop awareness of rhythm, connected speech, and intonation patterns to sound more natural and fluid.
- Distinguish between different sounds using focused listening and pronunciation tasks.
- Recognise and produce accurate stress patterns at both word and sentence level.
- Understand features of natural speech such as reduced pronunciation, linking, and elision.
- Build speaking confidence through guided exercises and communicative pronunciation practice.
Develop clearer pronunciation, stronger confidence, and the skills to express yourself with ease in everyday interactions.
Speak with clarity. Stand with confidence. Inspire your audience. The Public Speaking elective helps you develop the skills, confidence, and presence needed to communicate your ideas effectively in academic, professional, and social settings. Through structured practice, collaborative tasks, and real‑world presentation scenarios, you will learn how to organize your message, use persuasive language, and deliver presentations that engage and influence your audience.
- Deliver clear, engaging, and well‑structured presentations on a wide variety of topics.
- Present and evaluate arguments, perspectives, and solutions with coherence and clarity.
- Use presentation language, discourse markers, and appropriate vocabulary to guide and influence your audience.
- Develop fluency, precision, intonation, and confident non‑verbal communication for impactful delivery.
- Adapt register, style, and tone to suit different audiences and purposes.
- Respond to questions, clarify ideas, and manage interactive discussions with confidence.
- Present effectively both spontaneously and with preparation, strengthening flexibility and composure.
- Engage critically with peers’ presentations, asking questions and offering constructive, respectful feedback.
Structure your message, connect with your audience, and communicate ideas that matter.
Improve your reading comprehension, speed, skills and vocabulary. In the Reading Skills class you can read about real-world topics and develop reading skills with a variety of activities.
Develop confidence and improve your communication skills with engaging, real-world practice. This dynamic and interactive course focuses on practical language you can use every day, helping you take part in casual conversations, group discussions, and debates with ease.
Expand your language. Sharpen your expression. Elevate your communication. The Vocabulary Skills elective helps you build a wider, more flexible range of words and expressions for clear, confident communication. Through interactive activities and contemporary topics, you will expand your vocabulary, strengthen retention, and practise applying new language in meaningful, authentic contexts.
What You Will Learn
- Practise and use new vocabulary in a wide range of engaging, real‑world situations.
- Expand your range of vocabulary, expressions, and idiomatic language.
- Develop effective strategies for learning and remembering new words.
- Build comprehension by defining and analysing new vocabulary and expressions.
- Distinguish between commonly confused words (e.g., ironic vs. sarcastic, blame vs. criticise).
- Guess the meaning of unfamiliar words using grammar and context clues.
- Develop fluency and confidence using new vocabulary in conversation.
- Build word families by learning roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
- Improve pronunciation of new vocabulary for clear, comprehensible communication.
Enhance your expression and elevate your language.
Write with clarity. Organise your ideas. Communicate with purpose. The Writing Skills elective helps you develop clear, effective writing for both everyday and academic contexts. Using a step‑by‑step writing process, you will progress from simple personal texts to well‑organised paragraphs, compositions, and essays with greater accuracy, structure, and confidence.
What You Will Learn
- Develop writing skills from basic personal texts to structured paragraphs, compositions, and essays.
- Learn common organisational patterns, including introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions.
- Use a process‑based approach to plan, draft, and revise your writing.
- Improve sentence structure, accuracy, formatting, and punctuation.
- Apply effective writing strategies for both everyday and formal contexts.
- Build confidence writing clearly and accurately for a range of purposes.
Strengthen your skills, shape your ideas, and write with clarity and impact.
