Conversation Club

There is no need to book, just come along and meet The Living Language Project volunteers in Café Hope on Mondays between 12noon and 1pm (excluding Bank Holidays).

Practice the vocabulary ahead of time by going through our online flashcards. Here is a list of our upcoming topic so you can prepare in advance if you wish:

• 31st July Have you ever...

• 7th August When was the last time ...

• 14th August How often do you ...

• 21st August Daily Life

• 4th September Food and Drink

• 11th September Rainy Days

Click on the name of the topic to access the flashcards. 

Coffee, tea, cakes and cookies are available to buy from Café Hope.

Join our student WhatsApp group to stay in touch and to receive updates. 

There are a lot of great online resources you can use to help prepare for the English Conversation Club, or simply to use to improve your English skills. Here are our recommendations:

• Oxford Online English - quality online video lessons and quizzes. 

• Oxford Learner's Dictionaries - a dictionary designed for language learners. This site features the Oxford 3000 and 5000 which are the most important words to learn in English as well as much more. 

• Word Reference - a translation tool which also give you example sentences

• Grammarly Handbook - a complete guide of English Grammar rules. If you want to improve your writing you can also add the Grammarly extension to your browser.

• Collins Dictionary - as well as a dictionary, Collins has a translator, thesaurus and language learning tools such as Word Lists.

• Perfect English Grammar - easy to understand gramma explanations and exercises.

• Forvo - a pronunciation dictionary where you can hear words pronounced in different accents. 

• Write and Improve - practice your writing skills and receive feedback on how you can improve.

• iSL Collective - has a wide range of teacher-made resources. Those made by Blackbird English can be found here.