Course description

SLS offers an English Conversation Course for individuals aiming to improve their everyday English conversational skills across a variety settings. Available at our convenient Sydney CBD location on weekends, our course is ideal for those who work full time. The course comes with free training materials and you’ll enjoy our small class sizes for a great interactive learning experience. Upon completion, you’ll also receive a Certificate of Participation!

Who is this English Conversation weekend course for?

This course aims to help learners:

• Develop students’ ability in using language in formal speech effectively
• Improve your vocabulary and pronunciation through role playing, practice exercises, and group activities.
• Increase the level of fluency and accuracy of speeches through diverse speaking activities.
• To develop students’ enjoyment and competence in English conversation
• Gain more speed and confidence of your English speaking skills

To join this class:

• You must be an overseas-born professional who wants to improve your English conversation skills
• Your English speaking level should be at least at Pre-intermediate level and need improvement in speech fluency and accuracy.
• You wish to improve your English speaking skills (and vocabulary) to converse better in debating and at work
• You are encouraged to submit an audio file immediately after your enrolment for the teacher to evaluate the features of your speaking level and pronunciation, and suggest suitable solutions
• You don’t need us to provide a Certificate of Enrolment (CoE) for a visa application

Program Details

Lesson 1 – Australian Slang

• Common slang phrases
• Understanding rhyming slang

Lesson 2 – Modern lifestyle and The Role of technology today

• Describing advantageous and disadvantageous features
• Making comparisons
• Talking about ideal and healthy lifestyles
• Describing technology; giving instructions and making suggestions.
• Possible merits and/or disadvantages of creating a web page

Lesson 3 – Social networking

• What are available social networking websites?
• Your thoughts about social networking sites
• How to use social networking sites to build an attractive profile
• How to build a good profile on social media and social networking sites

Lesson 4 – Transportation and Travel Experience

• Talk about transportation problems in Australia and abroad
• Evaluate city (Sydney) transport services
• Advantages and disadvantages of the current public transport system in Sydney
• Tell others about your most memorable travel experience
• What are the pros and cons of travelling on a tour and travelling alone
• What is your desired destination and why?

Lesson 5 – Foods

• Describing your favourite recipe;
• Recommendation of good restaurants
• Describing a favourite snack
  

Lesson 6 – Jobs and university

• What is your ideal job?
• How can you balance your work and study?
• What is your view on workplace rights?
• Final exam

2019 Students Testimonials

“Teacher is very professional and approachable, he made the course interesting!”– (Daniel Sorie, May 2019 Session)

“The tutor was well-prepared and experienced, more vocabulary can be listed to use during the course” -(Ryan May 2019 Session)

“Ina is working really hard for our class, we all enjoyed her lessons”– (Seong Tae May 2019 Session)

“Daniel was so nice, trying to improve our English, especially by correcting our grammar/pronunciation”– (Marielle Feb 2019 Session)

2018 Students Testimonials 

“Our teacher helped to improve our vocabulary and fix common grammar mistakes we did”. -(Nangai, June 2018 Session)

” What I liked the most about the course was the variety of topics which is not only improve my English but also, got to know new things”– (Daiane, May 2018 Session)

“I got a chance to take weekly presentation and really liked speaking one topic each day deeply” – (Joey, May 2018 Session)

” It was very interesting to learn about local slang words and local way of greeting people.” -(Antulata, May, 2018 Session)

2016 Student Testimonials

“The interview panel in the last class was really good! Thanks!” – student, October 2016

“I liked the Milena’s enthusiasm and the expressions and slang vocabulary” – student, October 2016 session

“It was a very good course, very useful” – student, October 2016 session

“I enjoyed the interactive activities” – Gionatha, October 2016 session

“I liked that there were a lot of chances to speak and talk” – Rena, September 2016 session

“Ivan was really active and engaged, and I enjoyed the speaking and pronunciation in class” – Rudolf, September 2016 session

“Overall, what I liked most about the course was the interactive conversation topics” – Edwin, May 2016 session

“I liked the many new and useful vocabulary terms. Anna is nice as well and gave us many ideas” – Yen, May 2016 session

Covid-19 Policy: 

From 1 Jan 2022, given the widespread of Omicron and how it affects our students, we have to apply this policy and you are deemed to agree to this when enrolling in our courses:

– If you have enrolled and paid into your courses, and the courses have been confirmed to start, we cannot accept any refund request or cancel the enrolment in case you are diagnosed with COVID or cant travel for fear of COVID.  We can agree for you to postpone the courses to the next available course within 6 months only.

– If the course has been confirmed by email to start, we can’t refund.

– If the course has not been confirmed and you request to cancel enrolment at least 7 working days before the course starting day, you are entitled to a refund with a deduction of $60 admin fee, as per our Terms and Conditions.

– Sydney Language Solution reserve the right to switch Face2Face class to online when:

• The course trainer/teacher is affected with Covid-19 in the middle of the course
• Three (or more) students in the courses are diagnosed with Covid-19