A speaker presenting to a group of students at a poster event

Want to to learn strategies for communicating more successfully in academic interactions?

Register for a guided activity session to:

  • try out a presentation in front of an audience​
  • upgrade your networking strategies​
  • rehearse viva interactions​
  • practise taking questions on a poster you've made

If you wish to benefit from regularly working with the same teacher and students, why not register for a full suite of two or four highly-interactive sessions? You also have the flexibility to select individual 1- or 2-hour sessions from any of the suites to build your personal practice programme. 

If you wish to join any sessions, make sure you register below!  Registrations open in August for our autumn term sessions.

When and where are these sessions?

Our speaking and listening guided activity sessions

Talking science

These fortnightly 'Talking Science' speaking and listening practice events give you the opportunity to:

  • rehearse activities that take place at ICL and beyond
  • build your confidence
  • develop key skills
  • reflect on and understand how to move your oral communication skills forward

Stand up and speak

This suite of 4 'Stand up and speak' practice sessions has been designed to help you:

  • develop your diction and delivery by working in small groups to practise your public speaking skills
  • receive feedback as you try out different techniques to get your voice and message across more clearly

Presenting your work

This suite of 4 'Presenting your work' practice sessions has been designed to help you:

  • prepare, practise and rehearse for presenting your work
  • consider how to become a more confident and effective communicator

The Business School requests that their students and staff contact their Global Skills Development team about their equivalent to the Centre for Academic English provision.