Academic English skills for international students
Patrick Lectures will be starting soon! It’s well worth spending some time thinking about going to lectures and how you can get the most out of them. Lectures are hard! Your lecturers will probably speak quickly and you may well find it hard to follow what they are saying. You will hear a variety of accents … Read more
I have had a couple of e mails over the past week about Morris dancing! Well, I’ve never really thought about it, but I guess they do look rather silly. Someone asked me about the history behind Morris dancing and I have to say I don’t have a clue so I had a quick look … Read more
It’s official: the summer has been awful. It’s usual in the UK to talk about the weather but there’s even more of it about this year because of the poor summer. Actually, the surprising thing is that we mention it at all – you would think that we would have got used to our terrible … Read more
It’s a bank holiday weekend in the UK! Everyone in the country will be trying to make the most of it because it is the last break before everyone goes back to work, school and university. How do British people spend their bank holidays? Three ways: by sitting in their cars in long traffic jams, … Read more