Welcome back to English for University. Com!

If you have signed up for posts by e mail in the last few weeks you are probably thinking ‘well, that was a waste of time!’ because you haven’t received any posts. But the posts are back and now you will be receiving regular posts once or twice a week about Academic English and pointing out good resources for you to use on the Internet. In this post I’m going to remind you about the great resources that you can find right here on my site.

One of the most popular pages on English for University. Com is the STUDY GUIDES page. At the moment there are four study guides for students to make use of: Writing an introduction,  Presentation phrasebook, Citing authors in the body of your work and Writing a bibliography. The last two are designed to be printed out and stuck on your wall because everything fits nicely onto one piece of paper.

These videos (with transcripts) of students talking about what it’s like to study at university in England are very popular too. And for more formal listening practice the links on this page to lectures to watch and listen to are excellent.

The last reminder is the page of links to academic vocabulary exercises. These are high quality resources and you don’t have to spend a penny to improve your Academic English.

Thank you for students and teachers who write to me – I am always happy to receive e mails and I ususally manage to reply to them. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with suggestions for the site.  More soon!

Practise your English with English for University. Com

I am experimenting with online learning technology and I am looking for students to sign up for free online English lessons. If you are an English language learner and you have a good internet connection then contact me on englishforuniversity.com @ g mail.com (taking out the spaces!) and I will send you some details so you can log in to the English for University. Com learning environment. There will be forums, online discussions and lots of other things. I am also trying out an online classroom. I have scheduled a session on Monday evening which students are welcome to attend. The classroom is on a site called WizIQ. You have to register (it’s free, of course) but then you can be a student. In the first class on Monday evening (or morning, afternoon, or whenever wherever you are!) anyone who comes along can practise their spoken English and we’ll talk about anything interesting we can think of to talk about! You can follow the link to the scheduled class and sign up for a free account with WizIQ here. Hope to meet some of you there on Monday 8.00 PM GMT 12th April!

IELTS writing

I am always looking for different ways to make the same points to students. Regular readers will know that I quite like pointing out youtube clips and I’ve got another one today about how you can achieve COHESION and COHERENCE in a paragraph and an essay when you are writing for IELTS. Cohesion and coherence are important qualities in an essay and are difficult to define. I have talked about these qualities before (for example here) and I daresay I will again! But rather than me banging on about them let me turn you over to sangteamthan’s youtube channel:

Lastly, I am looking to start an online IELTS class for interested students. Read more about this here.

Start your paragraph with a topic sentence!

Couldn’t have put it better myself!
Thanks to gwm54!