Evening English

Study English in Shafston's Evening Classes


Shafston offers Evening classes in General English (Intermediate and above) (CRICOS: 021673G) and IELTS Preparation (CRICOS: 021674F). Students on a working holiday visa can continue to work during the daylight hours and then study an intensive English program in the evening, while students on a Tourist Visa can do unpaid / voluntary work experience and then study in the evening. Students who undertake intensive in-service training in their professional fields during the day, can study in the evenings.

Evening classes run from 4-8.30pm with a 30-minute break at 6pm. The courses comprise of 20 hours face-to face with your class teacher per week.

Preparation for Evening English Sample Timetable

Time

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Grammar Review:
Test Your Grammar
Telling Lies
Questions and Negatives
Language Focus

Speaking / Discussion Practice
Asking for more information
Negative questions
Forming negative structures
Spoken English

Reading and Speaking
Pre-reading discussion
Comprehension check
Vocabulary work
What do you think?

Vocabulary
Saying the opposite
Antonyms and Prefixes
Writing (p114) Linking ideas - Conjunctions

Everyday English
Being polite Grammar Workshop

6:00pm - 6:30pm

Break

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Reading, speaking and listening activity
What’s the story?

To find factual discrepancies between two newspaper stories

Listening and Speaking
My most memorable lie!
Uncertainty card game
language activity
Speaking activity – Play a card game with prefixes and suffixes

Speaking, listening, reading and writing activity
So you think you’re honest?

To devise a questionnaire to assess how honest a person is

Song - ‘I never loved you anyway’
Vocabulary building exercise (20-square: Opposites
Activity 28 – Vocabulary Games and Activities 2)

Review Test
Review Test Check and Correct / Consolidation