Free Study Skills Workshops

These free, 90 minute workshops (for those registered on 40-hour courses, but not suitable for Beginners), that run in Weeks 4 & 7 every term.

How this works?

Each of our course terms are eight weeks long. In Week 4 we run workshops on one topic – repeated 4 times and in Week 7 we run workshops on another topic – again repeated 4 times.

What do the workshops cover?

In general, our study workshops cover a variety of topics designed to equip students with the skills needed to improve their English independently. Each session develops study skills to support learning, such as punctuation, spelling and pronounciation, grammar and vocabulary, and more.

The workshops involve collaborative activities allowing optimal engagement and interaction between students and their classmates.

What is the language of instruction?

All study skills workshops are conducted in English.

What are the six study skills topics?

British Culture

Aims:

•To describe various elements of British culture.

•To develop the ability to read and assimilate information from various sources.

Critical Thinking Skills

Coming soon...

Note-taking skills for learning

Aims:

To give students guidelines and help them practise and improve their skills for a) taking notes from a spoken text and b) taking notes from a written text.

Perfect Punctuation

Aims:

To learn / revise punctuation rules.
To (re)familiarise learners with the names of punctuation marks.
To practise hearing and producing the difference in the length of pauses for commas and full stops.
To revise the rules for using capital letters.
To revise the rules for using apostrophes.
To punctuate a text to practise using all the punctuation rules covered.

Spelling and Pronounciation

Aims:

To highlight the link between spelling and pronunciation with vowel sounds/ letters.
To give learners practise identifying patterns, rules and exceptions.

Using texts for improving Grammar and Vocabulary

Aims:

To examine a text closely for grammatical features.
To examine a text closely for articles and pronouns.
To learn how to exploit a text for grammar at home.
To learn how to choose what lexis to record from a text.

Word & Sentence Stress

Aims:

To introduce/reintroduce syllables and give participants practise identifying them.
To introduce/reintroduce stressed and weak syllables and give participants practice identifying and producing them.
To introduce/reintroduce stressed and weak words in sentences and give participants practice identifying and producing and consider.

Timetable (for Weeks 4 & 7 only)

Week 4 Topic: British Culture

DAY	DATE	TIME
Monday	30.04.18	13.30-15.00
Tuesday	01.05.18	16.15-17.45
Thursday	03.05.18	13.15-14.45
Friday	04.05.18	10.45-12.15
Friday	04.05.18	16.15-17.45

Week 7 Topic: Using texts for improving Grammar and Vocabulary

DAY	DATE	TIME
Monday	21.05.18	13.30-15.00
Tuesday	22.05.18	16.15-17.45
Thursday	24.05.18	15.00-16.30
Friday	25.05.18	10.45-12.15
Friday	25.05.18	16.15-17.45