Our Activities

Learning at CLC is not just about the classroom, it is also about meeting people from other countries, making friends with different backgrounds, sharing multiculture and enjoying Australian life together.

Moving the Classroom Outside

“Our school is very fun and exciting. There are excursions every week and not to the same places. School excursions are educational activities that take place outside the school, as they represent a change in the daily routine. Our teacher is very kind and searches for different excursion types. For that reason every 2 weeks we are looking forward to a new excursion. And the staff give us information that is not in the textbook, so it’s fantastic!
We can get to know many places around Melbourne and we spend time and have a lot of experiences together. And we have more chance to speak English with native speakers.

We really like going out with the school because most excursions are free. Normally, sites of historical, cultural, environmental or social interest are chosen, such as a museum, a theatre or a library, etc. Three weeks ago, we went to Government House in the Royal Botanic Gardens. There were a lot of flowers left in honour of the Queen’s death in front of Government House and inside we could learn a little about the Queen’s visits to Australia. It was amazing.” (Written by students, Carlos, Gygy and Honey)

Excursion Map

Check out our previous destinations below.

Job Club

These are weekly coaching/mentoring sessions helping students with the local job market process. Skills taught will focus on getting a local job ASAP.

Skills Include:

  • Resume writing
  • Job interview practice
  • Self-introductions when dropping off resumes
  • Telephone call practice for interviews

Workshops

These Workshops are for extra skills students can learn for either fun or to add as a bonus skill on their resume.

Masterclass Topics:

  • Design a cool poster
  • Design a sexy invitation
  • Design an awesome T-shirt
  • Pro Photoshop for social media addicts

Personal Coaching

CLC provides individual/personalized English coaching and feedback to all students free of charge.

Every 5 weeks, teachers meet with students for “one-on-one” Personal English Coaching.
Teachers give individual feedback, discuss 5-week Achievement Report and set targets/goals.

If any student is not progressing, their teacher informs the Academic Manager for further support or intervention strategies (if required).

Community Care

CLC believes better education and language skills lead to a happy and successful life for each individual. Every graduating student is given a token and will be asked to choose one of three inspiring Our Communities Programs.

Short Courses

In partnership with Australian City Design College, we are offering extra design skills to our students. In these classes, students can learn for pleasure or to add a bonus skill to their resume. The 6 short Courses introduce students to video editing with Adobe Premiere. Students learn to manipulate the various photographic images with Adobe Photoshop and create and manipulate vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator. In other sessions, students learn fundamental concepts and techniques in the production of motion graphics and animation for digital video and interactive media with Adobe After Effects.

Sport Activities

CLC believes that being part of a team helps build discipline, and playing soccer is an easy way to do so! Enjoy the sport, make it a positive memory of your international study. Focus on having fun, having a go, and being active, rather than winning or losing. It helps teach how to actively take and give instructions in a team environment, while also learning how to deal with and give constructive criticism.

Job Club

Aussie Job Essentials

We want to ensure that our students will have all the skills they need to start working as quickly as possible. The Aussie Job Essentials helps students get ready to find both casual and professional work through coaching/mentoring, focused on providing all the essential tools – from CV and Cover Letter writing to Interview Practice and all the English vocabulary necessary for the type of work you want to apply to.

This program will be weekly coaching/mentoring sessions helping students with the local job market process.

Aussie Job Skills

We want to ensure that our students will have all the skills they need to start working as quickly as possible. The Aussie Job Skills helps students get ready to find both casual and professional work through a range of workshops, focused on giving you all the essential skills to develop the employability skills our students need to tap into the job market and grow networks.

Primarily it is delivered by professional staff in our campus, with some sessions delivered by invited industry guest speakers, our workshops are a valuable opportunity to gain key information to support students’ careers throughout their degree and into their first job in Australia.

These are weekly skills workshops focusing on common student jobs in Melbourne, such as Bartending, Waitstaff, Customer Service, Pizza making. Students will get a participation certificate that will be useful to find a job in these demand industries.

Workshops

These Workshops are for extra skills students can learn for either fun or to add as a bonus skill on their resume.

Masterclass Topics:

  • Design a cool poster
  • Design a sexy invitation
  • Design an awesome T-shirt
  • Pro Photoshop for social media addicts

Personal Coaching

Care is one of our core values. City Language Centre provides individual/personalised English coaching and feedback to all students free of charge. This coaching program is all about helping and motivating learners to make their own decisions about their language learning journey. We shouldn’t restrict ourselves to simply teaching the language.

On this program, every 5 weeks, teachers will meet with students for “one-on-one” Personal English Coaching, to give them individual feedback, discuss 5-week Achievement Report, set targets/goals. Also, if any student is not progressing, their teacher informs the Academic Manager for further support or intervention strategies (if required).

Community Care

CLC believes better education and language skills lead to a happy and successful life for each individual. Every graduating student is given a token and will be asked to choose one of three inspiring Our Communities Programs.

The 3 options are:

Donate a book to the Disabled Children’s Foundation
The Disabled Children’s Foundation was established in 1997 to ensure children with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone in the community.

Donate a cup of coffee to Melbourne Council for Homelessness
Melbourne is a caring city, and we know our community cares deeply about addressing the plight of the homeless.

Recycling for Charities
Recycling for Charities is a nonprofit with the goal of ridding the environment of e-waste. You can donate your electronic items, and then that value then donated to a charity of your choice. The organization works with an authorized system to ensure that electronics are reused, recycled or disposed of properly.

Short Courses

In partnership with Australian City Design College, we are offering extra design skills to our students. In these classes students can learn for pleasure or to add a bonus skill on their resume.

These MasterClass workshops introduce students to video editing with Adobe Premiere. Students learn to manipulate the various photographic images with Adobe Photoshop and create and manipulate vector graphic with Adobe Premiere. In other sessions students learn fundamental concepts and techniques in the production of motion graphics and animation for digital video and interactive media with Adobe After Effects.

Sport Activities

Soccer Team

CLC believes that being part of a team helps build discipline, and playing soccer is an easy way to do so! Enjoy the sport, make it a positive memory of your international study. Focus on having fun, having a go, and being active, rather than winning or losing. It helps teach how to actively take and give instructions in a team environment, while also learning how to deal with and give constructive criticism.