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This is your chance to volunteer with animals or children on your study-abroad trip to South Africa. EC Cape Town English school is proud to announce the launch of exciting new volunteer programmes. Work with animals Do you want to work with animals? Wildlife volunteers can choose to work on an elep … Read more
Are you thinking of studying English in Australia? In the land “down under”, as people like to call it. We’re putting the spotlight on EC Gold Coast in the blog this week, to show you what makes this such an attractive destination. From the school to the outdoors to the overall atmosphere, there’s s … Read more
We recently introduced you to our five new schools in Australia and New Zealand on our blog post(link). So now it’s time to look at each one in more depth. You’ll get a taste for the personality behind each school and see what makes them the ideal English learning destination for you! This week, we’ … Read more
EC’s reach continues to grow, with the addition of five exciting new locations for English students. Four of these schools are in Australia, in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast, and one in Auckland, New Zealand. This brings the total number of schools in the EC network to twenty-nine, loca … Read more
Whether you take a Cambridge or IELTS exam for a professional, personal or advanced study reasons, there’s no doubt that it’s a great way to raise your standard of English. You will feel an enormous sense of achievement on completion because you know the level of hard work and dedication that you pu … Read more
You may read this title and think that you’re being encouraged to take time off. Would that be such a bad thing? However, while watch a movie will mean that you enjoy a well-earned rest, it can also be very beneficial to your English learning process. While watching, you’ll be spending the full dura … Read more
The activities and leisure programme are a much-loved part of all EC schools’ timetables. Specially tailored to suit each destination, each one is unique and great in its own way. These activities tend to change weekly or fortnightly, or depending on what’s popular at the time of year. In EC Malta, … Read more
Outside the classroom, there are so many ways to continue learning English. Most of them are fun activities that you already do! Recently, we explored reading English books, plays and stories to improve your language. Now, let’s take it a little further and look at the benefits of watching movies in … Read more
You may have noticed that every year, there seems to be more and more strange and unusual celebratory days, weeks and months. Some are wonderfully obscure, such as Love Your Red Hair Day on November 5th. Others are not only fun, but also actually quite useful. Case in point being exactly what this b … Read more
Have you ever noticed how some days you take out your books to study English and you devour them? You find yourself not looking at the clock even once. Perhaps not even thinking about the clock at all. Instead you are breezing through chapters and you’re nailing it. But then there are the days when … Read more
