Community events

Community events

The British Council organises events on social media where you can ask our expert educators questions. If you have any questions about our courses or about learning English in general, you're welcome to join our live events on Facebook and YouTube. They're free and you can join as many as you want. 

What are community events?

Our community events are an opportunity to listen to teachers and experts from the British Council answering questions from learners like you. The events take place on Facebook and on YouTube and each one lasts about 45 minutes.

How do I join in?

You can find a list of events on this page. Look at the event details and if the time is suitable for you, just follow the event meeting link. If you want to ask questions, you need a Facebook or YouTube account. If you don't or can't use Facebook or YouTube, you can watch a recording of the events – see the event details page for a link to the recording.

What happens in a live event?

Our team of educators lead a discussion about the topic and then answer questions from the viewing audience. People all over the world join in and ask questions! 

Join our live event about Thanksgiving and Black Friday!

Join our live event to support our learners: useful language for shopping, sales and more.

Join our live event and ask our expert educator your questions about the English language and learning English.

Watch a recording of our live event for some spooky Halloween fun, ghoulish grammar and vile vocabulary!

Watch a recording of our live writing workshop to support our learners studying for English writing exams: describing graphs for IELTS writing task 1.

Watch a recording of our live event as we celebrate 5 years of our fabulous English online courses.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar: defining and non-defining relative clauses.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar: phrasal verbs for learning.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar and vocabulary with this fun summer quiz.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying vocabulary, through talking about holidays, travelling and using useful holiday language.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar, through talking about Chat GPT and AI and using future forms.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying vocabulary, through talking about places to live and using useful language for homes.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar and vocabulary, through talking about food and using phrasal verbs for food.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar and vocabulary, through talking about sport, using modal verbs and other useful language.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying for English writing exams: How to write a great essay conclusion.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar and vocabulary: Tea time  – language, instructions and idioms related to tea.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying for exams: writing complex sentences.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar: talking about the future in a positive way.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners: learning English with Shakespeare.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners: from Shakespeare to social media – the evolution of English idioms and expressions.

Watch a recording our live event to support our learners studying grammar and vocabulary: talking about the weather and using weather idioms.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar: reported speech – patterns with reporting verbs.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying grammar: past simple v present perfect.

Watch a recording of our live event to support our learners studying vocabulary: adjectives with -ed and -ing.

Watch a recording our live event to support our learners studying for exams: writing essay – what makes a good paragraph.