Webinar: Language Lunches
3rd Lunch: The Hit List of Common Mistakes
This series is a fun and time-saving opportunity to improve your English during lunchtime! Anyone who wishes to consolidate their English-language competence is welcome. The series consists of the following three language lunches:
- 1st Lunch: English Grammar Through Cartoons
- 2nd Lunch: Punctuation
- 3rd Lunch: The Hit List of Common Mistakes
The lunches can be booked individually or as a series. But please be aware that you have to sign up for each of the three lunches individually. If you want to sign up for "The Hit List of Common Mistakes", please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. If you want to sign up for other workshops of the series as well, please follow the specific link of the favoured workshop above.
Workshop Content
I am at WU since two years …. I’ll shortly explain why … let’s now look on the actual figures … it’s unsure whether this will work …
Do these sound familiar? All are examples of rather frequent errors in English. Yet they can all be easily avoided if one knows why they occur, and how they can be put right.
Avoiding avoidable mistakes: That’s essentially what this brief workshop is about. Of course, not all such errors lead directly to misunderstandings. But many do. And, just as importantly, repeated errors can give the impression of a more general lack of competence, and so undermine the message a speaker wishes to convey.
Workshop Method
On the basis of authentic examples (i.e., errors that other learners have made in the past) we’ll discuss mistakes with the help of the FACE approach: FIND – ANALYSE – CORRECT – EXPLAIN.
Location, date and time
Friday, 27 November 2020, 11.30 am - 2.00 pm
The webinar will be held online via Microsoft Teams. All participants will receive the access link with our reminder e-mail one week before the workshop. Information on the use of MS Teams can be found here.
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Fees and Registration
This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 13 November 2020.
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 the Language Lunch "The Hit List of Common Mistakes", 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 document “Information obligations pursuant to Art. 13 and 14 of the GDPR”.
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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Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Mautner
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