Monday 12 April 2010

Learning to Learn


Well...it's amazing how time goes by so quickly... but more or less in a couple of months we will have finished this year course!

Do you remember that questionnaire I ask you to fill in during the first week of the course? Come on try it? That one where you told me about your main problems with English (speaking, listening, writing, reading, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar) and some things you were going to do by yourself during the whole year at home to try to overcome them. By now I'm sure you can imagine my next question... yes... you are right, did you do anything of the things you said you would? In a week or so, I will return your questionnaires and you will have to tick the things you did and cross the ones you didn't, so here you have one more oportunity to try to do something about it, apart from the lots of interesting webpages you can find in the blog, for example in MY FAVOURITE LINKS section.

Yeah... I know... I know... you don't have much free time for that, but you know sometimes you need to find it to work a bit more if you want to improve your skills with the language. A quick way to practise it's a quick access to the information so look at what I found! a new link, which I already added to My Favourite Links, called the The English Club includes a lots of links ordered by skills, pronunciation, vocabulary... so... come on it's perfect to help you practise a bit more in a more independent way. So, try it!

The English Club - 4 skills practice + pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar...

You can also do some listening activities from esl-lab.com or elllo.org regarding the current unit's topic , education:

Listening 1: School Report
Listening 2: A university Degree
Listening 3: Grad School
Listening 4: Job Hunting

At the begining of the course most of you told me that you wanted to learn English for academic and professional purposes, by now you alrady know learning a language is a lifelong commitment with yourself. In case you feel like carrying on with your studies abroad during the summer, here you have direct links to some English language courses abroad. Anyway, thave a look to the information about the courses, accomodation, activities... and do an online booking, just for the sake of practising!

EE English Language Courses
Oxford royale Academy
St. Clare's Oxford

Nowadays with the current state of affairs in the economical and financial arena lots of people are looking for new job opportunities for different reasons, but mainly for being unemployed.

Watch the following videos with some useful advice:









Check the following link about JOB HUNTING, it might help you:

Job-Hunt.org - how to get started, career resources, help from job search experts, news...
Job-Hunting-Tips.com

Finally, if you want to learn some more vocabulary related to the topic or get more imformation about covering letters and cv check this link:

Get that job (bbc) - Vocabulary, letters, interviews...



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