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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  3. French 3 upper: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Radet
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  7. Becoming confident on the cloud: a new way of sharing and managing your files - OneDrive and Google drive (foundation)
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    The digital world is changing from sending emails to sharing files. Attaching files, sending them, downloading them, working on them, saving them, re-attaching and re-sending them is becoming a thing of the past. Instead, with cloud computing, you can share and collaborate on files either at the same time or separately without any emailing or downloading. Join this course and learn how to do this and stay on top of your file management. Learn how to use OneDrive and Google Drive to create, store, share and collaborate on different types of documents on your PC as well as other devices. Discover also how to maintain security while syncing your devices and accounts. By the end of this course, you will have grasped what cloud-computing means and be confident of exploring it further.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £65.00
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  8. Improve your speaking voice
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    Course start date:  Sat 21 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lloyd Wylde
    This course is ideal if you seek greater clarity and confidence in how you communicate. Through a series of exercises and drills, you will learn how to improve your speaking voice.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  9. The Contemporary Global Novel
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Jones
    Are you curious about reading contemporary global literature? Would you like to understand what we mean by the ‘global novel’, reading across cultures and national borders? This in-college course will introduce you to the study of global literature through reading three brilliant 21st century global novels: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled and Julie Otsuka’s Buddha in the Attic.
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  10. Workplace communication with digital skills: English for the office and business (intermediate level 1-level 2)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 16 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Are you working in an office and need to improve your communication skills? Would you like to become an administrator but feel your written English is holding you back? This course will help you become a confident, flexible and successful communicator in writing, in person, on the phone and online. You will work on using the right language for written documents and for when speaking to colleagues, managers, customers, in meetings and on the phone. You will focus on different levels of formal and informal communication and how to speak and write clearly and concisely, with appropriate tone e.g. in emails and letters on a PC. You will also work on how to lay out key documents using Word, spell well and punctuate correctly. You will also start to learn about the cloud and how to use key parts of Microsoft 365. By the end of this course, you will confident you can work successfully in an office environment.



    Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for information and to book a pre-course assessment. You can also click the Start Assessment button on this page.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

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