Improve your English and prepare for a Cambridge exam, with the flexibility to work during the day

This intensive course enables you to achieve an internationally recognised qualification by studying in the evenings!

In our Cambridge Exam Preparation courses you will make progress in your all-round English ability while developing skills and techniques for exam success.

All students will start and finish their course at the same time and you will work together with your classmates, which leads to a higher level of motivation and focus.

Why choose one of
our Cambridge Exam Preparation courses?

In Cambridge Exam Preparation you will:

  • Gain an internationally recognised certificate from Cambridge University
  • Develop key skills and techniques to achieve excellent exam results
  • Study with highly qualified and experienced teachers who have completed our ELC Cambridge Teacher Development Program
  • Improve your confidence in your all-round English skills
Learn more about our Cambridge Exam Preparation courses

Intensive Cambridge Exam Preparation Evening 
Program Features

Fixed Start dates

4 intakes per year in January, March, June and September

Fixed course length

Courses range from
10 to 12 weeks

Available at 2 levels

Choose from B2 First
and C1 Advanced

Study on any visa

All our Cambridge courses are accredited to welcome student visa applicants

Class sizes

Average of 15 students per class
and maximum of 18

Classes for adults

Average age: 24
(minimum 18)

22 hours per week

Intensive course with
20 core hours and 2 hours
optional classes

5pm start time

Ideal for students working
during the day!

What are
the Cambridge exams?

Cambridge English exams are the world’s leading range of certificates for learners of English. Each year they are taken by over 5 million people, in 135 countries and are recognised by universities and employers throughout the world.

As well as giving you the confidence to communicate, a Cambridge English certificate can boost your opportunities for future employment, higher education courses, and more.

ELC is an approved Cambridge Exam Preparation centre: in the daytime you can choose between 2 courses to either prepare for the B2 First or the C1 Advanced exam.

Intensive Cambridge Exam Preparation 
Course Structure

Follow your core program 18hrs per week, join electives 2hrs per week,
and get to join an additional 2hrs optional class each week.

Cambridge is your Major course: you will join the same class every day, Monday to Thursday, for 15 hours per week.

The Cambridge program focuses on making progress in your all-round English ability whilst developing skills and techniques for exam success. ELC’s thoroughly researched syllabus, up to date teaching materials, and excellent teaching methods ensures students will make fast progress in:

  • Examination skills
  • Fluency and pronunciation
  • Grammar and vocabulary
  • Writing skills
  • Listening and reading skills

Evening students get to choose a 2-hour Evening Focus class every Friday evening. Choices may include Speaking, Listening and Vocabulary, Pronunciation and conversation, Discover Australia, Video talks, and more.

Keen to learn even more?
Join an additional 2 hours per week of conversation class!

ELC offers 2 x 1-hour conversation classes each week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 3:50 and 4:50. These lessons are free and optional: they do not count towards your attendance.

By attending, you will meet more students (including some who study in the daytime), improve your fluency, and grow your vocabulary range even faster! Topics change every week but include fields like travel, family, science, the environment, sports, etc.

Your class schedule

Your core classes will run from 5pm to 9:20pm, Monday to Friday. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you will have the option to start earlier by joining optional classes. The following schedules show how you can choose to study 20 hours to 22 hours each week to depending on your availability and goals.

This program includes up to 22hrs tuition per week, ideal for fast progress!

Coming on a student visa? Make sure to attend the 20hrs classes presented in blue and yellow.

The Intensive Cambridge course is offered at 2 levels in the evening:

B2 First is an upper-intermediate level examination. It indicates that your level of English is sufficient for practical use in clerical, secretarial and managerial jobs in many industries. You can communicate effectively in most social and travel and some work situations. You can use all basic grammatical structures and some more complex. Your range of vocabulary is sufficient to express yourself clearly.

C1 Advanced is an advanced level examination. It recognises the ability to communicate with confidence in English in most everyday situations, including work and academic contexts. You can communicate fluently in social, travel and work situations. You have good operational command of English, using an extensive range of vocabulary and complex grammatical structures effectively.

ELC is a fun school that is serious about learning. Studying abroad is an incredible opportunity to accelerate your language learning and it’s our job to make that EASY for you! With highly qualified and experienced teachers in learning spaces designed to facilitate communication, your classes will be dynamic and engaging, keeping you energised throughout the day. You will learn practical English, with many opportunities for practising the language in real-world contexts and collaborating with your classmates and teacher.

The ELC approach will help you make maximum progress with your language learning in just a short period of time!

Learn more

With less hours tuition each week, our evening courses are more affordable, making them a great option if you have a limited budget. Contact us today to enquire about our latest special promotions on evening courses!

If you are planning to work in the daytime and sometimes full days (8am to 4pm), you will love our evening courses! Our classes start at 5pm only and we are located right across the road from Town Hall station, making it easy for you to come to school on time after work and maintain the 80% attendance required on a student visa!

At ELC, we know that many of our evening students have very busy days before school. This is why we have made sure to schedule classes in the most compact timetable possible: you will study 4hrs every evening with only 1 x 20-minute: start at 5pm and finish at 9:20pm, Monday to Friday. This means you will spend less time on campus, while still achieving great progress in an intensive course.

If you choose to study in the evening, you migth miss out on our late afternoon and evening social activities, but you will still have the oportunity to join our weekend activties and trips and to make friends outside of class.

If you choose to study in the evening, you are welcome to arrive early and make the most of all our services and facilities in the daytime, including our Study Centre, student services desk, travel desk, as well as more flexible student counselling appointment times.

At ELC, all our students have access to free optional classes! if you choose to study in the evening, you will have access to 2hrs optional conversation class each week. This is a great opportunity to learn more, improve faster, as well as to meet more students from other countries!

What our students say

Marisol Lamas

Marisol Lamas

Argentina

ELC taught me many things beyond English; it introduced me to other languages, cultures, and traditions that I never imagined I’d learn. Above all, it showed me that the world has no barriers and that, despite our different backgrounds, we are all here with the same goal: to learn how to enjoy life in new ways.

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Ping Ping Lai

Ping Ping Lai

China

ELC is a really good school. It’s a good place for international students to exchange their cultures.

The Cambridge FCE course is amazing. Especially the teacher, Camilla, she is very strict with us, so that makes everyone very focused in class. I think the Cambridge course is one of the best here because you can learn everything from it: Grammar, writing, listening, speaking – it’s more intensive and better than other courses. I like that Camilla writes down new vocabulary, the definition and gives examples on how to use the word, so it’s easy to understand and to copy the information from the board.

I really like the social events at ELC. I went to last year’s Christmas party, and it was a really good opportunity to meet students from other classes and meet new people from other countries.

Before coming to ELC, I tried the Cambridge and General English course in other schools, but they had too many students and the atmosphere was too intense. It was just the teacher talking and students were not interacting or asking questions. I didn’t like that.

I would definitely recommend ELC to others. Especially the Cambridge course. We practice writing every week and the teachers are very responsible in marking our writing so we can improve a lot.

I am going to study CAE Cambridge course next month and I am very excited about it!

ELC是个特别好的学校。这里的设备俱全，是个国际留学生互相交流不同文化的好地方。

我就读的是晚间班。FCE剑桥课程（FCE Cambridge Exam Preparation）特别棒，特别是我们的老师，Camila，她上课特别认真、严格，让大家都很专心的上课。我认为剑桥课程是这里最好的课程，因为你可以从中学到全面的知识：语法、写作、听力、口语。这比其他课程更集中。Camila会把新的词在白板上写下来，再加以解释和造句，她这种教法特别容易懂，我们也方便抄笔记。

我特别喜欢ELC的社交活动。我参加了去年的圣诞派对，在那里认识了很多其他班级的学生，是个很好的文化交流的机会。

我之前去过Greenwich试听过他们的剑桥课和General English课。但是一个班里人太多了，而且氛围很僵硬，只有老师在讲课，没有学生之间的互动。

我推荐ELC，特别是这里的剑桥课程。我们每周都有练习写作。老师会及时的改好作业，所以我们写作方面进步很快。我特别期待我接下来的CAE剑桥课程！

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Luciano Andrade Araripe

Luciano Andrade Araripe

Brazil

I’m going to miss this place so much! The teachers are amazing. All staff her have been so good to me. I’ve improved my English a lot and the Cambridge class (FCE) with Pamela was the best I’ve ever had!

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