Gain confidence speaking English and express your ideas clearly

This course is designed for students who want to improve their spoken English and feel more confident when communicating. Through dynamic and interactive classes taught by highly qualified teachers, you will improve your fluency and accuracy in a collaborative environment, where you’ll practise constantly with your classmates and teacher.

Duration

25-hour quarterly course (2.5 hours per week with fixed timetables), taught during the following periods:

  • October – December
  • January – March
  • April – June

Level

We offer 3 levels: B2+, C1 and C2.

What you will learn

During the course:

  • You’ll take part in conversations on general-interest topics, practising useful structures and expanding your vocabulary.
  • You’ll receive practical pronunciation tips to improve both your comprehension and expressiveness.
  • You’ll listen to audio and watch authentic videos to help you understand real English and use language more naturally.

What will you achieve?

  • Greater confidence to express yourself in everyday situations.
  • A broader vocabulary and strategies to communicate more effectively.
  • Personalised recommendations from your teacher to help you progress at your own pace and focus on areas you need to reinforce.

Additional activities

Ask your centre about in-person activities that will allow you to keep practising outside the classroom.

Where it's taught, prices and timetables

Courses are available at the following centres — select yours to see detailed information on prices and timetables:

Why choose us?

  • We have over 80 years of experience teaching English, operating in more than 100 countries worldwide.
  • We're committed to your learning: the British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
  • Expanding access to education is part of our mission, and helping you reach a good level of English is one way we do that.
  • We teach English to over 400,000 students around the world each year.
  • Our English courses are exclusively designed by a team of over 50 education specialists.

English Extra

Enhance your learning with our free English Extra programme, where you’ll have access to a wide range of activities to reinforce what you learn in class.

We take English seriously

We reinvest all our income into educational and cultural projects around the world. This enables us to offer you the very best in global English teaching.