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Life is like a box of chocolates 🍫 you never know what you’ll get 😊I didn’t have any expectations when preparing for the...
11/03/2023

Life is like a box of chocolates 🍫 you never know what you’ll get 😊

I didn’t have any expectations when preparing for the conference in Dubai 🇦🇪

Over 250 speakers 🎙️about 10 workshops happening at the same time 🕰️ and what you get is an engaged audience with all seats taken 😱

Couldn’t predict a better outcome for Tesol Arabia 🇦🇪 hopefully, workshop participants feel more confident in teaching academic writing skills ✍️

Thank you Melanie Gobert and TESOL Arabia

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My name is Kasia, the founder of Oxford Academy of English, on a mission to make academic writing more enjoyable and accessible ✍️

Welcome to Dubai 🇦🇪Tesol Arabia Day 1 Time to kick it off 🚀
10/03/2023

Welcome to Dubai 🇦🇪

Tesol Arabia Day 1

Time to kick it off 🚀

Don’t make this mistake!Many IELTS Candidates fall into the same trap. I call it a trap of 'easiness'.What is it?Many IE...
16/02/2023

Don’t make this mistake!

Many IELTS Candidates fall into the same trap. I call it a trap of 'easiness'.

What is it?

Many IELTS questions are easy to answer. But, it's ONLY a trap!

Why?

Because many IELTS Candidates will give easy, meaning simple, answers.

For example, how would you answer this question?
'What's your hobby?'

IELTS Band 5.0. My hobby is cycling.

IELTS Band 6.0 I like cycling.

IELTS Band 7.0 I do like cycling.

IELTS Band 8.0 What I love doing is cycling.

Want to score IELTS Band 7.0 or 8.0 for speaking? Start using advanced grammar structures even if you're giving answers to easy questions.

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My name is Kasia and I’m an academic lecturer empowering international students on their journey to academic excellence 🎓

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Send me a message 📩 to get started and finally, get unstuck with your academic results.

13/02/2023

Many IELTS and University students struggle with maintaining impersonal style of writing ✍️

One of the most important aspects of writing academically is grammar. If you want to sound academic, formal and unbiased, use the following:

✅ impersonal it, e.g. It is clear / evident/ obvious (if you want to give an opinion)
✅ passive voice in order to avoid using ‘you’
✅ relative clauses
✅ participle clauses

If you want to know how to use them in your writing, just DM me and I’m happy to help 😊

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My names is Kasia and I’m an academic lecturer empowering international students on their journey to academic excellence 🎓

10/02/2023

This is the look I would get from many of my students 😂

Why?

Because one of the most common comments students get for their writing is that they cannot use personal pronouns. And that is correct ❗

Academic writing is formal, unbiased, and objective. We engage in academic research because we want to answer a research question, evaluate sources, analyse evidence, and come up with original conclusions.

However, in academic writing, there is also room for reflective writing. The idea behind reflective thinking and writing is that we can gain insights into subconscious assumptions that we hold and that can hinder our growth.

Because it is reflective, it has to be subjective, but there is something that you can never forget.

Even though reflective writing allows you to use personal pronouns, it is still part of academic writing. As a result, the register of your writing remains formal.

What is the most difficult part of reflective writing for you? Do you ever engage in this sort of writing?

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My name is Kasia and I’m an academic lecturer empowering international students on their journey to academic excellence 🎓

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Send me a message 📩 to get started and finally, get unstuck with your academic results.

09/02/2023

How can you easily fix academic writing?

This information is suitable both for IELTS candidates and university students.

Remember ‼️

Academic writing is:
✅ formal
✅ objective
✅ unbiased

As a result, avoid using:
❌ personal pronouns
❌ short forms
❌ false arguments

Want to know how to quickly learn to write more formally and academically?

DM me and I’m happy to help you 😊

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My name is Kasia, and I’m an academic lecturer empowering international students on their academic journey 🎓

Feeling stuck at IELTS Band 5.0?You don't have to! One of my students' writing scores was 5.0. When she showed me her wr...
03/02/2023

Feeling stuck at IELTS Band 5.0?

You don't have to! One of my students' writing scores was 5.0. When she showed me her writing, it lacked a clear structure or enough vocabulary to answer an IELTS question. After a month of hard work, she got 6.5 in writing! Amazing, isn't it 🤩?!

How did we get there? I often start my IELTS writing classes with an understanding of the public descriptors. What are they?

✅ task achievement/response

✅ coherence and cohesion

✅ lexical resource

✅ grammatical range and accuracy

By understanding what they are and how different they are for each band, you can gain more clarity and become more focused, and therefore, score a higher IELTS band.

Sounds good? Feel free to contact me for more targeted advice.
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My name is Kasia and I’m an academic lecturer empowering international students on their journey to academic excellence 🎓

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Send me a message 📩 to get started and finally, get unstuck with your academic results.

BREAKING NEWS‼️Are you preparing to take the IELTS❓You need to know this‼️According to the official source, IELTS Offici...
19/01/2023

BREAKING NEWS‼️

Are you preparing to take the IELTS❓You need to know this‼️

According to the official source, IELTS Official in partnership with British Council and Cambridge Assessment Centre, 'test takers of the world’s most popular high-stakes English language test, IELTS, will soon have access to a new feature to help them boost the score they need to achieve their global learning and career goals.
Initially launching on a small scale in limited cities, IELTS One Skill Retake will enable test takers to redo one of the four skills (Listening, Reading, Writing, or Speaking) if they did not achieve the score they aimed for the first time around.

“IELTS One Skill Retake improves fairness by providing an opportunity to retake a single skill, if the test-taker feels their original performance was not representative of their language ability.”

What do you think 🤔? Is it a good change or not ❓Let me know in the comments👇

What a great New Year's present I received today?!A student of mine got her IELTS results today and you wouldn't believe...
03/01/2023

What a great New Year's present I received today?!

A student of mine got her IELTS results today and you wouldn't believe it! Overall, she got 7.5, which proves how good she is but there is a bit of credit I'd like to claim here 🙂

When she contacted me three weeks before Christmas her writing was at Band 5.0. Three weeks later after taking an intensive IELTS prep course with me, she was able to score 6.5!

That's incredible! Of course, she'll get a place at her dream university. That goes without saying!

If you want to see such opportunities in your life, don't hesitate to contact me. I'm happy to help :)

16/12/2022

How can you write an academic introduction?

Follow this formula👇
1) opening sentence
2) brief definitions (optional)
3) mention of previous research (2-3 sentences)
4) limitations of your research
5) thesis statement

Need help with your introductions?

Comment or text me INTRODUCTION and I’m happy to help 😊

Let’s see if any of this sound familiar to you 👇‘I don’t understand why I am constantly getting pass-mark grades'‘I spen...
17/11/2022

Let’s see if any of this sound familiar to you 👇

‘I don’t understand why I am constantly getting pass-mark grades'

‘I spend loads of hours in the library and I still can’t find relevant resources’

‘I put so much effort into my writing but can’t get anything more than 60%’

‘Whenever I submit my assignment to Turnitin, I fear that the plagiarism score will be high’

‘I am struggling with putting my ideas into paper within the word count’

‘Whenever I have to do a group or individual presentation, I feel shy and paralysed’

‘My presentations are rather boring and find it difficult to make my delivery interactive’

‘I have no idea how I will be able to write over 10,000 words for my final dissertation’

I bet some of it did, didn't it? 👀

Look, I get it!

Over the last 7 years I have helped thousands of international students make a smooth transition from their own educational systems to the UK higher education institutions.

My students were accepted to top UK universities such as the University of Cambridge (Classics), Queen’s Mary (Medicine), Imperial College (Law), the University of Edinburgh (English Literature), the University of Surrey (Radiology), Leeds University (Business Management), York University (Finance and Accounting), just to mention a few.

My students are landed job opportunities in the Silicon Valley. I know I can’t believe it myself, but I have a pleasure to work with ambitious and aspirating students.

Book a free discovery session and check how I can help you become more confident in writing and speaking. Link is below 👇

15/11/2022

Do you feel nervous or even paralysed when giving individual or group presentations?

Many students lack confidence and therefore, are scared of going to the front of the class and presenting their research results.

What can you do to become more confident in yourself and in your abilities?

Watch this 👇 and don’t hesitate to ask me further questions 📩

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