Hello everyone! My name is Rebecca and I am the Assistant Director or Studies at the Gold Coast campus. In January, we welcome a lot of new students and many of them take part in our Cambridge English preparation courses. These courses are particularly demanding and it can sometimes be challenging for students to adapt […]
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People often ask me ‘why’ I do not have a Brazilian accent or how I got rid of it. Some students look at me in disbelief when I tell them where I am from and they say ‘so you’ve lived here for many years’ or ‘so you’re married to an Aussie.’ No! Truth is I
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G’day Guys, It’s Matt here, Director of Studies of Langports Brisbane. Learning grammar in any language is difficult, and English, with a minefield or past/present/ future/perfect/passive/conditionals/etc, is no exception. To make it even worse, we often learn ‘grammar rules’ at each level in English, only to find that as you progress to Upper-Intermediate and Advanced
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Prepositions are one of the hardest things to learn in English. Even advanced English learners find prepositions difficult! One preposition in your own language might have a different translation in English depending on the context. For example, if you look up the word on in the dictionary you will be bombarded with many different definitions and uses, over
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Hello all. My name is Lincoln and I teach English at Langports Gold Coast campus. At the closed-course levels of grammar teaching, we obviously need to start understanding some of the more complicated functions and properties of verbs and which can mean introducing some of the intimidating-sounding terminology that is required to describe them.
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Hi there! This is Birgit and Kristy from Langports Sydney. Today, we would like to tell you how important it is to make mistakes when learning English! Do you fear making mistakes? Are you feeling self-conscious when speaking? Are you always using the same, all too familiar and easy words?
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Hello from the Gold Coast Academic Team. At Langports, students have the opportunity to study a variety of closed courses. The closed courses that are offered at Langports are; TOEIC, IELTS, Business English Plus, Cambridge FCE /CAE /CPE, and EAP (English for Academic Purposes). A closed course at Langports means that you will study in
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Hello everyone, my name is Aaron Caulfield. I am the Assistant Director of Studies at the Sydney campus, and today I want to help you learn vocabulary. All students want and need to learn more words in English, but….there are thousands of words in English! Where do you start? What words do you NEED to
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Hello everybody. I am Katie, the Assistant Director of Studies at the Brisbane campus. There are many English language tests to choose from and it can be difficult to decide which exam will be most useful for you. This a quick guide to the exams that we offer here at Langports, and how these can
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Hi! My name is Mary Hardy and I have been an English Teacher at Langports Gold Coast since it first opened in April 2007. As a Langports’ teacher, I want you to succeed as an independent learner! An independent learner is someone who can manage his or her own learning and who is not wholly dependent
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