Academic English Workshops

Dissertation Café

Led by a lecturer or dissertation supervisor, this is a regular meeting for Master’s students to talk about their dissertations, theses and business transformation projects, giving you the space and strategies to discuss your topics together and help each other.

Grammar Clinic: Articles and verb tenses

Grammar Clinics are language-based workshops where you'll have a chance to review and practice the key grammar points you need for academic writing. In this workshop, we'll focus on articles and verb tenses.

Grammar Clinic: Cautious language and passives

Grammar Clinics are language-based workshops where you'll have a chance to review and practice the key grammar points you need for academic writing. In this workshop, we'll focus on cautious language and passives. 

Grammar Clinic: Conditionals and linkers

Grammar Clinics are language-based workshops where you'll have a chance to review and practice the key grammar points you need for academic writing. In this workshop, we'll focus on conditionals and linkers. 

Grammar Clinic: Relative clauses and adjectives

Grammar Clinics are language-based workshops where you'll have a chance to review and practice the key grammar points you need for academic writing. In this workshop, we'll focus on relative clauses and adjectives.

How to write a formal email

In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to write emails in a formal way, including how to structure a formal email, formal vs informal language, and intercultural differences when writing emails. 

Improving Your Academic Vocabulary

In this workshop, you will explore techniques for expanding your academic vocabulary; enhance your ability to convey ideas with precision and paraphrase effectively; and learn to use word families proficiently, enriching your writing style for academic contexts.

Language for Critical Writing

Have you received feedback saying that you need to be more critical in your assignments?  We will introduce you to some sentence structures that are the most commonly used in academic writing to demonstrate critical thinking.

Language for Discussions and Group Work

Do you struggle with group work or lack confidence when participating in a seminar? This workshop will provide you with language tips for successful group work and enable you to participate successfully in a seminar or group discussion.

Language for problem solving, negotiation, collaboration

This workshop will enhance your communication skills for academic success and beyond, sharing strategies to articulate ideas effectively, negotiate solutions, and collaborate in group projects, as well as gain confidence to foster collaborative relationships.

Language for Reflective Writing

This workshop provides essential language and skills for effective reflective writing, helping you improve your ability to reflect on your learning, describe and interpret learning experiences, and articulate outcomes to create impactful reflections.

Language skills for executive summaries and abstracts

Important parts of academic assignments, this practical workshop provides a step-by-step guide in how to structure abstracts and executive summaries, and what language to use to impress your readers and your future stakeholders! 

Language Tools for Research: Paraphrasing

This workshop will introduce you to key language tools that you can use when taking notes or writing assignments, with practice opportunities. This workshop is one in a three-part series - make sure you attend all three!

Language Tools for Research: Quoting

All academic writing is based on referring to the work of others, but simply dropping a quote into your text is not enough. This workshop will show you how to more effectively integrate quotations into your writing, as well as avoid common errors. 

Language Tools for Research: Reporting Verbs

How do you introduce your paraphrases and quotes in your text in a seamless and coherent way? We'll introduce you to the key verbs that you can use when integrating research in your assignments, with practice opportunities.

Language Tools to Improve your Academic Style

This workshop provides essential language strategies to improve your academic writing style. It will introduce useful language strategies to make your writing more formal, clear, and precise and you'll have a chance to practice too.

Let's Get Critical

This is a practical workshop to improve critical thinking and intercultural communication skills, discussing what we value when it comes to communication and what we feel is most difficult, as well as thinking critically about whether our perspective is correct. 

This workshop will be run hybrid. Join us face to face if you are in Berlin or online if you are elsewhere. 

Lunchtime English Discussion Practice

This informal discussion session will offer you the chance to improve your debating and negotiating skills and provide an opportunity to receive feedback on your English grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.

Presenting in English

This workshop will guide you in how to present effectively. You'll learn some essential English phrases for organising your presentation and conveying information, as well as language for responding to audience questions and tips to improve your confidence and delivery. 

Reading Academic Texts in English

This workshop will enhance your reading skills for academic success and beyond, sharing reading strategies such as skimming and scanning, tips to read more quickly and gain confidence to tackle complex texts such as academic journals.

Synthesising sources and showing your voice

Making your voice clear in academic writing is challenging but essential. This workshop will help you to synthesise ideas and show your position to prove your thesis statement while focusing on the language you will need to achieve this. 

Tips to Improve your Essay

This workshop is designed to help you better understand how to improve academic writing by considering academic and non-academic features, linkers, academic language and more. There is also an opportunity to practise proofreading and apply what you have learned.

Vocabulary and Language for Graphs and Charts

Describing information in a graph clearly and accurately can be challenging. We will introduce and practise useful language to indicate changes on a graph to ensure you are able to explain data trends in an effective way.

The learning aims are to:

1. Understand the importance of a cover letter and what language is used in one.
2. Recognise the key parts of a strong cover letter. 
3. Learn how to adapt your cover letter for each application/job.
4. Practise using a formal and professional tone.

Writing a SWOT and PESTLE analysis

Join this workshop to master writing skills for SWOT and PESTLE analyses. Enhance your paragraph writing skills using analytical and critical language. Perfect for students seeking to excel in business analysis. Please note that this workshop is 90 minutes long.

Writing Academic Texts in English

Are you unsure what the main differences are between general and academic English? Had feedback on your writing that your style is too informal? We'll introduce you to the main differences between general and academic English and give you the opportunity to practise your academic writing skills during the workshop.