Win a Macmillan online English course!
Macmillan Practice Online (MPO) is a new series of interactive courses for English language learners. Over thirty courses are available, offering extra practice for exam preparation, general, business and academic English. The exciting news is that every month, Macmillan will be giving English for University a free login to the Advanced Academic English with IELTS course, worth £15 and valid for 12 months. That means I can pass on this free course to one of you readers every month!
If you are interested in winning this free course send an e mail to: englishforuniversity.com @ gmail.com (take out the spaces) or you can click here saying ‘Please enter me for the competition!’ As soon as you subscribe to English for University. Com you can enter the draw. Please enter only once and make sure that you use the same e mail address that you use to subscribe to English for University. Com. I will pull one name out of the hat at the end of the month. Good luck!
Draw winners:
November draw
Well done to C.R. NOOR DEAN who has won the November Macmillan prize. He is a member of the General Election Commision of Lebak Regency in Indonesia and he hopes that this prize will help him with his written English.
October draw
Congratulations to Jervy from the Philippines for winning the latest monthly prize with Macmillan Online. Jervy says:
I am always looking forward for opportunities that will help me to hone and improve my proficiency in the English language and I am definite that this course will give me the chance to develop my full potential of becoming an English speaker someday. Currently, I am working as a Clinical Instructor in one of the Catholic University in the Philippines. I am a Nurse by profession but I chose this line of work because I believe that teaching strategies and instruction will help me build my self confidence and improve my communication skills. I used to work as an ER Nurse in the Hospital, but after earning my Master’s Degree, I decided to enter and take part in the world of Nursing Educators. At present, the University imposed a policy called the “JEP (Just English Please) Policy” for all the members of the faculty including the students and staff. It requires all the people on campus to speak and communicate using the English language and so i believe that studying online with this course will definitely assist me to cope up with the above mentioned policy, and express confidence when speaking in class. I have been in the academe for almost 2 years and I can say that teaching is a very exciting, challenging, but rewarding profession.
I would like to say thank you to ENGLISH FOR UNIVERSITY.COM for providing us with all the information and skills to support our journey towards exploring the English language.
September draw
My name is Thanh Nguyen, I am from Vietnam, now I am doing my PhD in Austria, Vienna. Therefore, speaking and writing English is really necessary for my study here. I hope this course will help me to improve these skills.
June draw
Congratulations to Muhamad Ridzuan Bin Hashim who has won the June prize for the free online English course courtesy of Macmillan. He studies at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Muhamad Ridzuan Bin Hashim said: “Many thanks to you. I am glad to receive the prize. English for university.com help me a lot to improve my English. I hope with the course that I won will help me in writing my thesis.”
May draw
Congratulations to Suchi who won the May draw for a year’s subscription to Macmillan’s Advanced English and IELTS Course. Suchi says: “I am really glad to have won the draw. I am originally from India and currently working towards a Bachelor of Optometry at the University of Auckland. I have always looked for opportunities to develop and improve on my English and I am sure this course will help me a lot to build on my weak points such as spelling and vocabulary. <strong><em> “..You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty…” </em></strong>
April draw
Hello everyone. My name is Kasia Sikora and I come from Poland. I have been learning English for many years and really enjoy it. I am really happy about the prize and I hope it will keep me working during the summer. I like English so much that I am going to be an English teacher in the future 
Greetings from Cornwall
March draw
Bill is the winner of the March draw. Bill lives in a small city in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Bill is recently retired and has started working with overseas students to improve their English. ” I found that the experience was enlightening for me as well as my student friends. Whilst providing examples of language in different scenarios I was challenged to provide a variety of new and at times confusing terms and also to explain the reasons for using certain expressions and avoiding others. My student friends have now returned to their homeland but I soon will begin to assist others. The internet has such great potential for increasing knowledge. I am sure that the information that I have gleaned from the English for University website has helped me and look forward to accessing the Macmillan’s Online Advanced English and IELTS course.
February draw
Ahmed from the Middle East is the winner of February’s draw for the Macmillan Online language course. “Thank to English for University! I hope to improve my English!” said Ahmed.
January draw
Sarah who studies at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland has won the January draw. Her prize is one year’s access to Macmillan’s Advanced English and IELTS course. She says that this “will definitively help me to improve my English, and feel more comfortable when speaking to a large audience. I am looking for getting better at grammar and enriching my vocabulary, especially in the academic context, in order to be able to focus on the meaning of a talk instead of the vocabulary! This is already what the EnglishForUniversity website offers and this Macmillan great opportunity will certainly speed up my progress.” Sarah is a PhD student. Her work consists of simulating fragmentation and she is at the frontier of physics, statistics, material science and mechanics.
December draw
Ifar from Malaysia is the winner of December’s draw. Ifar can access Macmillan’s Advanced English and IELTS course for a year. Ifar is studying at the University of Auckland and says that the course will be useful because she wants to improve her English. Good luck Ifar!
