ELOQUA · General

General English — Conversation & Fluency

Speaking more, hesitating less. The course for people whose grammar is better than their confidence.

Level	CEFR A2–C1
Guided learning hours	30 hours
Duration	10 weeks · 2 × 1h 30m per week
Independent study	15 hours recommended
Delivery	Live online, small group or one to one
Entry requirements	CEFR A2 or above. Complete beginners are better served elsewhere first — we will tell you.
On completion	ELOQUA Certificate of Completion with a CEFR level statement.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

CLO1

Sustain a conversation on familiar and unfamiliar topics without preparing what to say in advance. (Apply)

CLO2

Tell a story or describe an experience with appropriate tense use and enough detail to hold a listener. (Create)

CLO3

Express and defend an opinion, and disagree with someone politely. (Apply)

CLO4

Use repair strategies — paraphrase, clarification, self-correction — instead of stopping when you get stuck. (Apply)

CLO5

Identify your own most frequent errors and correct them as you speak. (Evaluate)

Scope & sequence

Unit	Focus	Language	Skills	Assessment	Hours
1. Talking about yourself	Introductions, background, work and interests — extended beyond a memorised script.	Present and past simple; question forms	Speaking, Listening	Spoken placement and baseline	3
2. Telling a story	Narrating an event with a beginning, a complication and an end. Keeping a listener interested.	Narrative tenses; time markers; dramatic emphasis	Speaking	Two-minute personal story	3
3. Describing and comparing	Places, people, processes and things — and comparing them without repeating "more better".	Comparatives and superlatives; relative clauses	Speaking	Description task	3
4. Opinions and disagreement	Saying what you think, and disagreeing with someone without offending them.	Opinion language; polite disagreement; hedging	Speaking, Listening	Group discussion	3
5. Getting things done	Shops, appointments, complaints, directions — the transactional English of daily life.	Requests; polite forms; clarification	Speaking	Transactional roleplays	3
6. Hypotheticals and regret	Talking about what could, would and should have happened.	Conditionals; modal perfects	Speaking	Scenario discussion	3
7. Listening to real speech	Connected speech, contractions, accents and what to do when you miss a word.	Weak forms; elision; repair strategies	Listening, Speaking	Authentic listening + retell	3
8. Fluency under pressure	Speaking without preparation. Buying time, paraphrasing around a word you do not know.	Fillers; circumlocution; self-correction	Speaking	Impromptu speaking	3
9. Pronunciation for clarity	The sounds and stress patterns that most affect whether you are understood.	Word stress; sentence stress; problem phonemes for your first language	Speaking	Recorded pronunciation profile	3
10. Consolidation and next steps	Extended discussion, review of the personal error list, and where to go next.	Full-course consolidation	Speaking, Listening	Exit interview and CEFR statement	3
Total contact hours					30

Fees

Format	Package	Fee
Small group	Full course — group of 6	$780
Small group	Per week — join at any point	$85 /wk
One to one	One to one — per hour	$95 /hr

ELOQUA · Level 3, 120 Edward Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 · study@eloqua.edu
This document is generated from the live course record on 2 September 2026 and supersedes earlier versions.