Academic English skills for international students
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 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
It’s cold and rainy outside so it must be time for a post! Studying at university isn’t easy! If you are studying in a foreign country and having to survive in a different culture and use a second language then it can be very daunting. (Daunting: can you guess the meaning from the sentence? Have … Read more