Academic English skills for international students
Patrick Cause and effect in essay writing In the UK we have been enjoying a Bank Holiday. Enjoying a Bank Holiday in this country means huddling inside watching the rain! The correlation between rain and a UK Bank Holiday is extraordinary. This week heralds the start of exam time in our university. Let me say one … Read more
Prefixes and suffixes: Omnishambles I heard a new word this week: omni-shambles! What a great word! Here it is in context: Cameron slammed over ‘omni-shambles’ Budget Well, you might know the word ‘shambles‘ – but then again you might not because it is not that formal. A shambles is a mess, or confusion resulting from … Read more
My students will have to write about visual information in their end of year exam and that is the reason for today’s post. I am always looking for good pages online which can help students write about graphs and tables and although I have mentioned this one before I’m pretty sure my students won’t know about it. … Read more
I have been marking some practice exams recently and I’ve been giving feedback to students about how to improve their writing. There are lots of things that I could say, but in this post I’m going to mention just one: CHECK YOUR SUBJECT – VERB AGREEMENT! When your teacher reads mistakes like these ones in … Read more