Academic English skills for international students
I’ve been listening to student talks in my classes over the past few weeks and guys – a lot of you need to improve your pronunciation. The good thing for you is that speaking English is not like writing English! When people are listening to you they are a lot more forgiving than when they … Read more
OK, so I’ve been going on and on about presentations for some time so I promise that this is my last comment on presentations (not ever, just for a while). I’ve noticed that lots of students give definitions in the first part of their presentations – in the introduction. For example I watched one student … Read more
I have been watching a lot of student presentations recently – some good, some not so good, and some brilliant! As I was watching one of the excellent ones I realised what the speaker had done which made it such a good presentation: she had taken ownership of her presentation content. Her presentation had a … Read more
It is that time of year when English language students at our university are starting to think about presentations which they have to do as part of their coursework. Most university students have to do presentations at some point. There are lots of things to say about presentations in English, but my one piece of … Read more