This course is designed for practising and improving your spoken English in a relaxed atmosphere. We will focus on a wide range of interesting topics and activities, including visits outside the classroom to make you feel more confident with spontaneous conversations and your listening comprehension, while also helping to increase your vocabulary and accuracy in pronunciation.

This course introduces you to different aspects of creative writing: character, setting, dialogue, genre, point-of-view, poetry and more – fun and playful exercises to encourage the inner writer to fly. We’ll work inside the classroom and outside in nature. We’ll write, review, read out, share, listen and watch. Each week we'll try something new, something a little bit different: strong verbs, fanciful conversations, unexpected delights.

This practical, hands-on, baking class conducted in English, will introduce you to typical baked items that originate from the UK nations. You will work in pairs or small groups and follow recipes under guided tuition, to prepare and bake at least two items from a selection of sweet and savoury items such as Welsh cakes, English Bakewell tarts, Cornish pasties and Irish barmbrack. The session will finish with a sampling of the baked items, enjoyed with a cup of tea! The course tutors are Maureen Breeze of It’s a Breeze Baking, who will be visiting from England to teach the class, along with Vivienne Arnold. Make sure to bring a box to take home any delicious leftovers!