In this ongoing club, learners will develop their English in a variety of ways. Each week has a different focus and learners can practise the top tip of the week. 

Being a successful public speaker requires children to draw on their own experiences of life, their beliefs and their own understanding of the world. Bringing this together in planning, writing and speaking gives them an opportunity to express their opinions. Public speaking is also a social activity. It reinforces the child’s confidence and promotes personal development. Children learn to perceive people, their behaviour and their reaction to what is being said.

Each week will follow a different theme and the class will work to help learners develop their ideas, organise them and deliver an effective speech. Each class will also cover an important aspect of public speaking, such as making eye contact or supporting your ideas with evidence.

Week of 14/10/24 - Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
Week of 21/10/24 - Read a book you've already read or seen the movie of in your own language
Week of 28/10/24 - Read a translation into English
Week of 4/11/24 - Get help! If you don’t understand something you’ve got to ask someone
Week of 11/11/24 - Read a book with lots of dialogue
Week of 18/11/24 - Read English language comics
Week of 25/11/24 - Learn prefixes (dis-, un-, re-) and suffixes (-ly, -ment, -ful), these will help you to figure out the meaning of words and build your vocabulary
Week of 2/12/24 - Learn root words
Week of 9/12/24 - Take a one week intensive course
Week of 16/12/24 - Follow your intensive course up with an extensive course
Week of 23/12/24 - When you learn a new word, think of all its other forms: Beautiful (adjective), beauty (noun), beautifully (adverb)
Week of 30/12/24 - Keep an eye on your punctuation
Week of 6/1/25 - Have English radio on in the background while you are doing your housework
Week of 13/1/25 - Play English language learning games on your Nintendo DS
Week of 20/1/25 - Say or think what you are doing in English as you do your daily tasks
Week of 27/1/25 - Watch English language films with English subtitles
Week of 3/2/25 - Mirror CDs. Read out loud along with a CD
Week of 10/2/25 - Use resources which match your level
Week of 17/2/25 - Watch the same film or TV episode over and over again
Week of 24/2/25 - Be realistic about your level
Week of 2/3/25 - Don’t worry about making your accent perfect
Week of 9/3/25 - Read graded readers (= easy readers)
Week of 16/3/25 - Watch English children's films or TV programmes
Week of 23/3/25 - Read English children's books
Week of 30/3/25 - Keep a list of language to learn, e.g. a vocab list
Week of 6/4/25 - Label things in your house or office with post-its
Week of 13/4/25 - Label a drawing
Week of 20/4/25 - Keep a diary in English
Week of 27/4/25 - Listen to the radio news in English
Week of 4/5/25 - Read an English language newspaper
Week of 11/5/25 - Write fiction in English, e.g. short stories
Week of 18/5/25 - English language exercise videos
Week of 25/5/25 - Learn a famous speech or poem in English by heart
Week of 1/6/25 - Use a dictionary while you are watching a movie
Week of 8/6/25 - Learn some spelling rules
Week of 15/6/25 - Record your own voice
Week of 22/6/25 - Use computer pronunciation analysis
Week of 29/6/25 - Learn as many words as you can of one category, e.g. animal words
Week of 6/7/25 - Draw pictures of the words you want to learn
Week of 13/7/25 - Sign up for an English language exam
Week of 20/7/25 - Model your accent on one particular actor
Week of 27/7/25 - Occasionally talk to or e-mail your friends in English
Week of 3/8/25 - Buy a speaking electronic dictionary
Week of 10/8/25 - Carry cue cards with you
Week of 17/8/25 - You can’t ignore phrasal verbs
Week of 24/8/25 - Meet new people
Week of 31/8/25 - Try to keep the conversations moving and use listening words (‘really?’ / ‘go on…’ / ‘what happened then?’)
Week of 7/9/25 - Discuss topics in a group
Week of 14/9/25 - Don’t be put off by a bad test score
Week of 21/9/25 - Idioms can be difficult to memorise, but they are great fun to use and they’ll make your English more colourful
Week of 28/9/25 - Make use of the internet. It’s full of resources to help you learn
Week of 5/10/25 - For fluency, try image training
Week of 12/10/25 - Much communication comes through body language and gesture
Week of 19/10/25 - When talking we usually link words together so that two words can sound like one
Week of 26/10/25 - Make sure that your English matches the occasion
Week of 2/11/25 - Get used to the ‘schwa’ sound [ə] - an unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound
Week of 9/11/25 - Familiarise yourself with the Phonetic Alphabet
Week of 16/11/25 - Take a second to think about what you’re going to say
Week of 23/11/25 - Don’t make excuses not to learn
Week of 30/11/25 - Keep yourself motivated by looking back at the textbooks and CDs you used in the past
Week of 7/12/25 - If you get nervous when speaking, take two deep breaths before you say something
Week of 14/12/25 - Get yourself a qualified teacher
Week of 22/12/25 - Start your own English language blog
Week of 29/12/25 - Write a news diary
Week of 5/1/26 - Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively
Week of 12/1/26 - Listen to MP3s, English music
Week of 19/1/26 - Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it
Week of 26/1/26 - Practise the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
Week of 2/2/26 - Sing karaoke in English
Week of 9/2/26 - Write a film, music, hotel, or book review
Further classes will be added.

Come to class prepared with your notebook and pens and ready to share your ideas!

We look forward to being part of your learning journey!