STUDENT LED SEMINARS
Collocation and Colligation
We can discuss about it after if you want.
It seemed as AS IF IT WAS/TO BE/ LIKE a law to protect women, but…
It looks as IF/ IT LOOKS LIKE they’re happy with it.
Took someA FEW little SHORT steps towards
Did not turn out TO BE into a democratic success
A person that is worth to mentionING
It raises a question on ABOUT some thing SOMETHING OR SOME THINGS???
The young don’t know who to vote FOR
It depends also from ON the willingness of the person
So if you want to answer to any questions
The article that you recommended us to WE read
If the US stops to contributINGe to the UN
Let’s think to OF the many problems
I don’t want to steal ANY more time to FROM my guests
We commit ourselves to improveING the quality
Rosa you suggest us to WE reuse the bottleS
Lexis and phrases
….women received less money for the same mansions DUTIES/JOB
the major MAIN problem
women that underevaluate UNDERVALUE themselves
60% of the graduated people GRADUATES are women
It’s impressing IMPRESSIVE (ONLY POSITIVE CONNOTATIONS) if you see it
During the last years of the LATE 80s
Yelstin was an always weaker INCREASINGLY WEAK leader
Argentina people ARGENTINIANS were convinced to have THEY HAD
After Peron took the SEIZED power
According to me IN MY OPINION
Having a house and a work JOB
She rose a very important question
Many controls CHECKS are made by the company themselves THE COMPANY
CARRIES OUT A LOT OF CHECKS/THE COMPANY MONITORS THE
SITUATION ITSELF
The are not able to control (IN THIS CONTEXT = CHECK ) MONITOR the
situation on the ground (CONTROL = ESSERE INCONTROLLO)
To avoid the doubled operation TO AVOID DUPLICATING/DOUBLING UP THE
OPERATION
You’re also sensible SENSITIVE to what you’re seeing
There are many corrupted countries (THE ADJECTIVE IS CORRUPT –
CORRUPTED IS THE PAST PARTICIPLE OF THE VERB AND IT MIGHT
MEAN THAT ONCE THE COUNTRY HAD BEEN CORRUPTED BY
SOMEONE, BUT NOW IT IS NOT)
Syntax and general language mistakes
He was well seen from REGARDED BY THE Russian government
After the election United Russia is losing LOSES/LOST its majority in the Duma
(HERE THE ASPECT IS INCORRECT. HOWEVER, IT IS BEST TO AVOID THE
HISTORIC PRESENT IN ENGLISH, EVEN WHEN RELATING A SERIES OF
EVENTS CLEARLY IN THE PAST)
In my country we were having WENT ON field trips we were going to visitED… IF
YOU WANT TO EMPHASISE THE REPEATED, RECURRENT NATURE OF
THE ACTIVITY, YOU CAN USE THE ‘WOULD’ CONSTRUCTION
People that/WHO are leaving LEAVE the bottles on the street are saying that people
will come
What DOES THAT means?
So what does it THIS mean (REFERRING BACK TO WHAT HAS JUST BEEN
SAID)?
What does it mean discrimination in the education MEAN?
Do we know exactly which WHAT are the COSTS OF bottled water costs ARE?
Now we are going to WILL see what it was written there
I will present you the average protester (TO YOU – NOT NECESSARY)
He participates toIN
the protest (NB. HISTORIC PRESENT NOT REALLY
APPROPRIATE)
As for the first one, it THIS happened in Moscow
But also we should remember the role of THE Internet
There are people that/WHO don’t know where is Russia IS
In case of those situationS where… IN THE EVENTUALITY OF SITUATIONS
WHERE….
What have been people’s experiences with peacekeepers BEEN?
In 1899 was created the ...... WAS CREATED
The majority of them wasWERE illegitimate
The major part MOST of the society
In Brazil there are 800 000 of Roma people
More than 2% of the population is ARE Romany
But first I would like to ask what do you think about the TRC?
I’d like to know what do you think to OF this aspect?
The ICC, it’s ten years that it’s working HAS BEEN OPERATING FOR TEN
YEARS
To the process all the parties took part IN THE PROCESS
According to IN your opinion
People don’t inform themselves FIND OUT
It was completely banned the selling of bottled water WAS COMPLETELY
BANNED
The progress have HAS been too slow
China owns the half of Africa and South America
That’s why western countries keep on giving aids
In thisRECENT years it HAS becomes much clearer
A lot of people will change hisTHEIR minds
They feel themselves as LIKE kings
They fund themselves ARE SELF FUNDED
Prepositions
Russia has the same level of AS Nigeria
Until AS LONG AS that is happening there will be no change
How discriminated black people were DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
Sanctions, asLIKE/SUCH AS imbargoes, were introduced
For this THESE reasons (OOPS! NOT A PREPOSITION MISTAKE)
We send our trash in TO other countries
Have you ever been in TO China?
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Thanks YOU for your kind attention
I’m gonna give you guys a bit of (OK IN THE CONTEXT OF A CLASSROOM
BUT THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION SHOULD BE SIMILARLY
FAMILIAR) I WILL BE PROVIDING YOU WITH
Things to avoid
Some of you used the historic present to present a series of historical facts in
cronological order. Often there was inconsistency in tenses. The historic present is
used very little in English, mainly in sports articles, to be safe, avoid it altogether.
Answering rhetorical questions too quickly. The function of a rhetorical question is to
make people reflect. If you dive in immediately after to answer it yourself, it serves
no purpose. You can even ask a question and then use a filler like ‘Well’ or ‘actually’
adding another pause.
Too much text on slides.
Reading from slides verbatim unless it is a quotation.
Here are some of the words pronounced incorrectly during your seminars. What
should the correct pronunciation be? YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK THESE
UP IN A DICTIONARY
Penal
reform
access
naked
allowed
rather
cleansed
Further
murder
journals
focused
cohesion world
report
Authorities alternatives threatening Muslims
purposes sufficient legitimate
Yugoslavia allies
report
peasant
3 months burden
fund
Sargeant
beaten
bitten
racial
alternatives agency
aid
mutual
Where is the primary stress in these multisyllabic words?
Consequences
Advocacy bibliography
referendum apartheid turmoil
encourage
Is the ‘h’ rponounced in these words?
Heir
harmony health
Plurals ending in –ions (especially institutions)
These words are all foreign borrowngs, how are they pronounced in English?
Quasi
massacre corps
forum
agenda
status
What is the difference in pronunciation between flower and flour?
Ending on a positive note, here are some examples of good use of language:
All these events inevitably led to
Launching numerous criminal proceedings against
Clearly perceived as a signal to other magnates to tow the government line
So now let’s move on to
Today I will try to explain the reason why
This brings us to the role of the new media in the elections
To sum up
So
However, we must make a distinction between
Coming now to the core of our presentation
To come back for a second to….
Let’s start with some figures and numbers
This leads to the problem of…
Let’s see why we should….
How did this come to be?