Oxford School of English

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 🚀

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.

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 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 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 :)

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 👇