Duration: Nine weeks

Aims and objectives

The aim of this course is to develop your speaking skills and provide the opportunity to practise in an unpressured environment. It will:

• help develop your confidence in speaking
• help develop your fluency in speaking
• extend your knowledge of vocabulary related to specific topics and give you the opportunity to practise discussing these topics in English
• enable you to become aware of certain strategies used by speakers to participate in discussions
• provide you with the language necessary to communicate in different situations on and off campus

Possible topics

• Getting to know each other
• Travel advice
• Family life
• Gender and stereotyping
• Customs and habits
• Idioms and common phrases
• Restaurants and food
• Superstitions and proverbs
• Work
• Extreme sports and risk taking
• Final session quiz

Duration: Three weeks (if attending all three sessions)

Aims and objectives

The aim of this course is to help you with developing an eye for elements in your writing that would benefit from revision. With practical examples and from the perspective of the reader, the course will illustrate common issues and how to address them.

You must book for each session individually. If you wish to follow the whole course, you will need to book three times.

Duration: Seven weeks

Aims and objectives

The aim of the course is to review and consolidate some of the common areas of difficulty in writing grammatically.  Key objectives are as follows: 

• To identify common areas of difficulty
• To examine these in a clear and concise manner
• To provide opportunities for practice and questions