A FREE online English speaking club with a British native speaker
How is this speaking club different?
FREE Speaking Clubs
These speaking clubs are limited in numbers to just 8, so you need to be quick to register your place as all places can go in fewer than 24 hours. They are hosted by a British native speaker who will help direct the flow of the conversation club. The native host will also take part in the discussion, but YOU and you SPEAKING is the most important thing. This is the objective of the host: to make sure you get many opportunities to SPEAK and use your English.
A FREE speaking club works like this…
- You join and are welcomed by the native speaking host.
- Everyone briefly introduces themselves: name, where you're from, and... the colour of your socks.
- The native speaker then introduces the topic and, as a group, you discuss the first question(s).
- The host shows the group the question(s) to get you started.
- You are sent to a breakout room with another person to talk about these questions for around 7 minutes.
- The native speaker brings you back into the main room and asks a few people for their answers and follows up with more questions.
- The native speaker asks a new question to the group, so again you are part of the bigger group discussion.
- Then you see another one, two, or three questions and head back to the breakout rooms, but this time with someone new.
This cycle repeats again. We believe this is the best approach for giving you as many chances as possible to speak and use your English.
As these speaking clubs are FREE, they are limited in topics and you may notice the same topics keep appearing on the FREE speaking club list. “Travel” again! This is to give as many people as possible the chance to attend and practise speaking English.
It's also an opportunity to give you a taste of how the format works, in case you are interested in joining an English Speaking Course.
The BiG Speaking Clubs
These types of speaking clubs are bigger in numbers, which allows more people to join and gives more people the chance to practise their English speaking skills.
The biggest difference in this type of speaking club is that there is no host directing the conversation and asking the questions like in the FREE speaking clubs with smaller numbers.
The host is there, but he is there just to organise the speaking club. He will always welcome you at the start and then explain the topic and how to use the material, which will be on the slides on the screen.
You and the people in your group will basically go and “host” yourselves using the help of the material that is provided on the screen.
After the host welcomes you and explains how to use the material, you will then be sent to a room with 4–5 other people and this will be your group for the topic for the next 60 minutes. You will always have 5 minutes at the start to introduce yourself to the other people in the room before the topic of the speaking club officially starts.
This is a nice and natural format for meeting and speaking to people on a certain topic.
Company Speaking Courses
The company speaking clubs work exactly as the FREE English speaking clubs, but with two big differences:
- The numbers are limited to just 6 people per group, which obviously allows for more speaking opportunities.
- The topics are not limited, so certain topics like Men & Women, Crime, Age, The Future (which you won't see in the FREE speaking clubs) will be talked about with your colleagues.
Numbers can be unpredictable when it comes to in-company speaking clubs, so if only 3 people turn up, this will become one group where the native speaker will lead the group — basically, like how the group parts work in free speaking clubs.
You can read more about this on our Company Speaking Club page.
Speaking Courses
These run exactly like the FREE speaking clubs, but are limited to a group size of just 4 people. This group is closed, meaning once it has started, no other people will join it for the rest of the course.
The English speaking course runs twice a week over a 4, 8, or 12 week period. At different times of the year there may also be intensive English speaking courses which will run 3 times a week or even 5!!!
Topics of each new Online English Speaking Course are changed when a new one begins, so if you want to continue for another 8, 16, or 24 × 60 minute speaking sessions, you can without worrying about the same topics coming up.
If this sounds like what you need, have a look at our English speaking courses and paid conversation clubs.