Make progress on your speaking in guided sessions

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Come to our speaking lab and join our live sessions to rehearse, interact with others and get feedback

Want to make progress on your speaking in a supportive, collaborative environment, guided by your peers and CfAE coaches? Come to our speaking lab! 

Twice a week during CfAE term time, you can come at any time - and stay as long as you like. To find out when and where we are running the lab each week, please see our speaking and writing labs. 

You might want to: 

  • come for a walk-in 1:1 or come as a group to receive advice from a CfAE coach 
  • work on our self-study learning blocks 
  • come along with your friends/peers 
  • work with your group on a joint assessment 

You might also want to come to our live sessions and work with other College members on your speaking and listening skills 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!  

When and where are our practice sessions?

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CfAE Presenting your work
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CfAE Talking science
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CfAE Viva skills workshops
Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus
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CfAE Talking science
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Our speaking and listening practice 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

Other speaking and listening opportunities

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Improve your speaking or listening through self-study

Learn how to successfully present, conduct Q&As, interact with peers, listen to lectures, and more.
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Receive 1:1 advice on your speaking or listening

Discuss strategies for improving your speaking or listening with a CfAE coach.

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.