30+ Adult English Courses

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We know you are young at heart and our 30+ course allows you to study and socialise together with like-minded people – without any teenagers! Study 20 lessons per week or more at our school in lively and fascinating Camden, close to Central London.

WHY CHOOSE OUR GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE?

A tailor-made programme just for you. Our enthusiastic qualified teachers will create your course through a negotiated syllabus for a more personalised programme.
Maximum 12 students per class, average 9
Weekly class trips to London’s museums, parks and other places of interest with your teacher
Regular speakers with Q&A sessions for authentic speaker interaction. Guests have included museum curators, journalists, actors and entrepreneurs.

30+ COMBINATION COURSE

We recommend our popular 30+ Combination Course for a more intensive programme. This combines the enjoyment of learning and communicating in a group, with the focus of individual tuition. You will study in the group class in the morning and you have the flexibility of choosing when to take take your private lessons.

20 Lessons – 9am-1pm

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Get To Know You Activity:

Practising Small Talk:
Typical conversation openers and responses.
Practising informal questions.

Murphy’s Law Vocabulary:
Examples:
lock-out, get stuck, bang head, slip, trip, spill

Stereotypes:
Discussion on
British stereotypes. Students will also discuss their own countries’ stereotypes.

Homework:
Write an opinion essay about stereotypes you would like to change about your country and why?

Grammar Focus:

Past Tenses:
Past simple,
continuous, perfect

The Generation Gap:
Reading and speaking with past tenses

Listening Activity:
‘Telling how old someone is from their appearance’

Listening comprehension
questions for understanding main ideas.

Speaking Activity:
Describing
past events in your life.

Key Language:
Past tenses, when I was younger… I used to …

Homework:
Using the past tenses learnt in class write about a live event.

7 Wonders Of The World:
What are the 7 wonders of the world?Reading and Vocabulary:
archaeological, compile exteriorDiscussion:
Do you think they still are the 7 wonders?Documentary:
‘7 Wonders of the World’ Followed by
comprehension questions

British Museum Trip:
Pre – discussion & exercises for class trip to
British Museum
7 Wonders Of The
British Museum

Homework:
Write about 2 objects from the 7 wonders of the British Museum which impressed you the most and why.

Immigration:
Reading:
Article on
Why people emigrate?Writing Activity:
Writing postcard to a friend- imagining the difficulties & problems they would face as immigrantsPre – Talk Preparation:
Prepare questions for
Gillian Hammer,
a Science Teacher & NutritionistTopic:
Growing up in New Zealand, travelling around Europe in the 1960s & her life in the UK.

Question & Answer Session
with Guest Speaker:
Gillian Hammer
Science Teacher & Nutritionist

Followed by
Tea & Cakes
in the 30+ Lounge

Vocabulary Review:

Recap of talk from
Gillian and class feedback
on the talk.

Revision of Vocabulary covered this week.

Role-play Activity:

Therapist Speaking Game:
Actively listening to a partner talking about difficult experiences

Key Language For Active Listening:
That must’ve been really disappointing , upsetting/ difficult

Homework:
Revise vocabulary & research an online article on digital technology for next week.

Meet some of our guest speakers

Gillian Hamer

Nutritionist

Oliver Hewett

Professional Actor

Celine Luppo McDaid

Curator at Dr. Johnson’s House

Andrew Skeates

Masseur

Timetable

9:00am

10:00am

11:00am

12:00

1:00pm

2:00pm

3:00pm

4:00pm

30+ General English (9:00am-12:40pm) 20 lessons

30+ General English (9:00am-4:10pm) 30 lessons

Class days*	Monday – Friday
Class times	9am – 12:40pm or 9am – 4:10pm
No. of 50-minute lessons per week	20 or 30
Hours per week	16.7 or 25
Maximum Class size	12
Levels	Intermediate – Advanced

The 30 lesson programme of our 30+ course is recognized by the Bildungsurlaub Scheme

Prices for Number of Study Weeks
Lessons per week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
20	£339	£640	£960	£1280	£1600	£1734	£2023	£2312	£2601	£2890	£3179	£3468
30	£445	£836	£1254	£1672	£2090	£2268	£2646	£3024	£3402	£3780	£4158	£4536

What one of our Tti teachers has to say…

I have been teaching English for nearly 5 years and for me the best thing about teaching the 30+ course is that together we can discover this city’s culture and the influences other cultures have had upon it through our weekly excursions around London. Also, the students are from different backgrounds and professions which allows us to talk about so many diverse topics including politics, the arts and global issues. Our conversations are always dynamic.