Webinar - Organized by The British Council

          On 21^st September, there was a webinar organized by The British Council on “Improving Communication Skills through Blogs and Forums”.  

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        It was an amazing experience of attending the Webinar, it has started at 7 p.m. and first the host has introduced three key points of the webinar.

1.    Explore various online language forums and how to use them

2.    Learned how to use blogs to improve your English skills

3.    Looked at tips for writing a blog yourself

         The webinar has started with questions and we have to reply in cha box given in right side. In the very first point the host Nenaaz has referred some the very useful websites like Language Clinic, Learn English of The British Council, and also shared links of it in chat box. 

          The second point was very well discussed with testing our language skills; she has presented two paragraphs from the comment box of one blog, and asked us to find our hedging phrases and agreement phrases. After this activity some more websites have been shared by them like, Dave’s ESL Cafe, Blog reading apps, Mind your language and Expresso English. 

  

       In the third and last point there were some tips to write a good blog and for this Naneez has introduced the structure “POWER” like this,

P – Plan

O – Organize

W – Write

E – Edit

R – Rewrite

    

        While surfing online and pursuing some courses from online connections, the important thing is to stay safe. The host has also introduced us with such tips to stay safe online.

       

        The webinar was for one hour and in first 30 minutes the have elaborated points, and the another part was for question answers. They have given priority to every member who was live on webinar; they have also answered the question asked by Vaidehi Hariyani from our department. It was very good question that, all the things which host has discussed was about online courses to learn, but how we can improve our communication skills without internet? And the answer was using newspaper cuttings and written documents to improve our vocabulary.

      The session was very interactive and all have participated with enthusiasm. I am very excited for the next webinar.