Conversation Classes for International Students

Who for: International students with below IELTS 6.5 speaking.
Where: Microsoft Teams. 
When: Fridays 10-11.30am. Sign up once, then attend as many sessions as you want! 

These sessions cover general topics, though some of these may relate to aspects of your discipline such as education or health.

• Meet new people from a range of cultures.
• Discuss a variety of non-academic subjects.
• Improve your ability to communicate in English.
• Gain confidence with speaking and expressing opinions.
• Improve your ability to understand and respond to others.
• Improve your language and confidence when asking questions, asking for clarification, disagreeing, justifying views, etc. (essential skills for academic seminars and groupwork assignments).
• Practise using general and academic vocabulary related to the topics  covered.
• Improve your pronunciation.
• Develop speaking skills for conversing with peers and staff and for employability.

This year, classes will run once a week from 10am-11.30am on Fridays from 16 October to 11 December. There will be no session on Friday 20 November. 

To book these sessions and for further information, click here: Online conversation classes for international students (Sept-Dec 2026)

Further questions?
If you have any questions about this, please contact academicskills@hud.ac.uk