Referencing

Hello,

Look at this website to help you with referencing

http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm

Enjoy!!

British Council

Hi,

Here's a link to the IELTS section on the British Council website

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-ielts.htm

Enjoy

Helen

IELTS

Hi,

For those of you who are wanting to do the IELTS exam and need infomation or practice, take a look at the official IELTS site:

http://www.ielts.org/

Enjoy

Helen

English FIle website

Hi Everyone,

Here is the link to the English File website. It's a General English website but has lots of exercises to help you with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and lots more.

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/

Enjoy

Helen

Academic English group 2

Hello,

This is the first post dedicated to you!! Here's a link to a website for the course book English File. You'll find lots of activities to help you with grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. It's not an Academic English website but it's still very useful.
Take a look!!

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/upperint/

Enjoy!

Helen

University of the Arts

Hello,

Follow the link and take a look at my new place of work. I started work here a month ago and I work in the Language Centre as Assistant Course Leader for EFL and Modern Languages.

http://www.arts.ac.uk/

Enjoy!!

I'm back

Hi,

After a few months away I've decided to start blogging again. Look out for new posts over the next few weeks.

Welcome Purple

Hi Purple,

Welcome to my blog!!
Here I will post information which will be useful for your studies.

Have fun!!

presentation planner

Self study for you this week to help you with your presentations.


http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/tools/presplan.htm

Two words

SELF STUDY

Bad Mood

Dear Ruby,

The bad mood may have been a pretend one but the content of what I said today in class was very important. I want you to produce the best essay that you possibly can and one way to do this is to make changes to your essay based on the comments Andy made about your draft.
If you don't make any changes to your draft, at best you can expect the same mark as your draft but more likely scenario is that you will get a lower mark. I don't want that to happen and I'm sure that you don't either.
So, MAKE THE CHANGES.

See you all tomorrow

Harvard System of Referencing

Hi Ruby,

If you'd like some more examples and information about referencing click on the link below.

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/cite/harvard_dis/

See you tomorrow

Self-study - Friday 16th January

http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

Hi Ruby,

Please can you follow this link for some self-study exercises and record on your blog what you have done. Click on the link - go to reporting - read through the sections and then try the exercises at the end.

Thanks

Decision Time

As the saying goes

No more prevaricating around the bush

Time to make a decision - what exactly are you going to include in your essay. You've had time to think about it and now you need to start making some decisions. What information do you want to include in your essay? What essay structure are you going to follow?

It's time to decide!!! Make the decision and stick with it for the moment.

Enjoy!!

This one is dedicated to you Ruby

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d14511Amd08


Take a look at the lyrics

Work, work, work

Hi,

Some of you are finding this month full of pressure with lots of work to do. This is just a taster of what you will be facing on your Masters. There will be weeks in which you have 3 presentations, an in-class test and an essay due all in the same week.

Time management is crucial. Don't leave things to the last minute. Work steadily doing a bit everyday.

Drafts

Hi Ruby,

On Friday I would like you to bring in a draft of your essay/outline.
The minimum requirement is a couple of paragraphs - it doesn't matter if the paragraphs come from the introduction, main body or conclusion.
The more material that you can give on Friday the more feedback you will get.

Remember that drafts can be changed and it is a good chance for you to see if you are heading in the right direction.

Enjoy!

Self-study Blogs

Dear Ruby,

I'm a little bit worried. I've added myself as a follower to most of your blogs now and I've noticed that some of them have not been updated for a very long time. I hope that if you are not putting your self-study onto your blog that you are doing a paper version. If you aren't doing either of these things then you are going to be in VERY big trouble in a couple of weeks.

REMEMBER THAT YOUR SELF STUDY IS PART OF YOUR ASSESSMENT.

So get blogging/self-studying please.

For those of you who have been doing something, please ignore this.

Monday and Tuesday

Hi Ruby,

On Monday you will have a lecture on Globalisation.

Tuesday - based on the readings you have done you will do a poster presentation on your reading in your groups. You will be given time on Monday in the lesson to decide what you are going to present from your reading.

http://connect.le.ac.uk/posters

Take a look at this website to give you an idea of what a poster presentation is like.

Enjoy your weekend

Homework

Dear Ruby,

Please complete the following exercise for homework.

Group A read text A at the end of the green booklet. - Sebastian - Norah - Abdelaziz

Group B read text B at the end of the green booklet. - Satoshi - Shalem - Ardeshir

Group C read text C at the end of the green booklet. - Takuji - Labhesh - Louis

Group D read texts D and E at the end of the green booklet. - Ama - Maria - Stefano - Samsul

Essay

As the first draft of your essay is due next Friday, I suggest that you start thinking about what you want to include in your essay. Globalisation is a HUGE topic area and it will be impossible to go into detail in all areas. Therefore you will have to be selective and choose the MAIN effects of globalistion for your essay (as the question says).

With regards to the essay, the more you can give me next week the more advice I will be able to give you. Don't forget what you learnt in the previous months - it is still RELEVANT.

Enjoy!!

January's self study

Hey Ruby,

It's time to get going on your self study again. By Friday I would like those of you who have a blog to post your definition of globalisation.

I'd also like to see you post at least one of the fifteen tasks from the booklet.

Remember that self study is part of your assessment so if you don't do it, I can't give you a grade for it.

See you tomorrow

Features of academic style

Have a look at this website:

www.essex.ac.uk/myskills/skills/writing/academicstyle.asp

Welcome Back!!!

A new year and a new month!! The theme of this month is GLOBALISATION.
Along with the end of month test and self study, you will be expected to produce a full essay and a presentation.

Enjoy!