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Language Lunches
1st Lunch (online): Hitting the Nail on the Head: Improving Spoken English through Idioms
Now in its fourth year, the Language Lunch series is a fun and time-saving opportunity to improve your English-language competence over lunch! In the summer semester, the series continues with the following two workshops:
- 1st Lunch (online): Hitting the Nail on the Head: Improving Spoken English through Idioms
- 2nd Lunch (online): Between the Lines: How English and German Writing Differ
Both workshops are part of the “Language Lunch” series and can be booked individually. Please note that even if you would like to attend both, you must still book them separately. If you want to sign up for "Hitting the Nail on the Head: Improving Spoken English through Idioms", please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. If you want to sign up for “Between the Lines: How English and German Writing Differ”, please follow the link above.
Target Group
All WU employees are welcome (preferably at the B2 level and above according to the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages; you can find a guideline for self-evaluation here).
Content
Learning English is hard: even if one spends decades learning how to speak and write the perfect English, failing to understand a particular phrase may turn an otherwise pleasant conversation rather awkward. Idioms rely heavily on social and cultural knowledge, most of which tend to be picked up based on context and through full immersion in a language. But, there are some strategies we might employ to make that process a little easier. Using idioms in everyday conversation will help your spoken English appear not only more advanced, but more natural too.
This workshop therefore aims to:
- examine the most frequent English idioms and explore why they are used
- identify strategies to disentangle what an idiom may mean
- compare idioms between languages
Location, date and time
Friday, 18 June 2021, 11.30 am - 2.00 pm
The webinar will be held via Zoom. All participants will receive the access link with our reminder e-mail one week before the workshop. For information on using MS Teams click here.
Fees and Registration
This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 4 June 2021.
Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged. Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.
To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. By registration for this workshop, you accept our terms and conditions “Workshop and Event Registration Information Sheet”. Further information on the collection of personal data can be found in the “Data Protection Statement” on our homepage.
For any further information please contact Nina Rath (Nina.Rath@wu.ac.at, Ext. 6173).
The course fee is €10.
Trainer
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Mathew Gillings
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