Online-Workshop
This course seeks to improve speaking skills for academic and other professional situations, as well as for more casual environments. We will practice advanced English conversation skills and will seek to expand range of vocabulary and overall expressive ability in a variety of formal and informal settings. A range of interesting topics will invite all participants to activate and improve their language skills in a dynamic environment. Additionally, attendees currently working on presentations or on written work in English can bring ongoing work to the workshops where we can address some specific questions as part of the course.
Course Contents
The seminar will include a range of activities such as: role play exercises to activate spoken English, structured classroom debates on current event topics, reading and discussing short essays or newspaper articles, targeted language exercises as needed.
Instructor
Anne-Marie Hodges, M. A., educated in the USA and in Germany, is a lecturer at the Hochschule Kempten in Business English. Prior to that she spent many years working as a teacher (including as a lecturer at the LMU), and in the business world in international marketing. She is also a teacher of yoga, especially of yoga philosophy.
Target Group
BA and MA students of all disciplines (and prior to the first state examination), 8 participants max. Promovierende können nicht zugelassen werden.
Course Dates
- Friday, May 16th and May 23rd 2025
- 9am to 1pm
Location
The workshop will take place online, you will receive a link after binding registration.
Course registration
- Please fill in the fields of the registration form and send it off (a copy of your registration will be sent to you automatically).
- Please only enter your @campus.lmu.de e-mail address.
- After some processing time, you will be informed by e-mail whether you have been allocated a spot on the course or else on the waiting list.
- You can register for a maximum of three LMU PLUS seminars per semester.