On October 23, the English Writing and Communication Centre hosted “Chatroom: Taking Care of Your Emotional Hygiene”. This Chatroom aimed to improve students’ listening, speaking, and discussion skills using a specific topic. Moreover, this Chatroom intended to raise awareness of emotional hygiene to ...

EWCC Hosts “Crafting Your Personal Statement Workshop” On October 21, the English Writing and Communication Centre hosted “Crafting Your Personal Statement Workshop”. The speaker, Christine Cheng, one of the EWCC tutors, shared tips on how to write an effective personal statement or essay that is imp ...

The English Language Centre (ELC) of Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently organised a three-week Summer English Programme 2020 (July 1 to 21) for nearly 300 incoming first-year students of the University of Macau (UM). This was the first time this programme was conducted fully online and wit ...

The ELC i-Learner Workshop: Using Online Resources to Learn English was successfully held on January 17, 2020. In this workshop, In this workshop, Year 1 and ELC students learned how to operate a very useful online platform to learn English in all different aspects including speaking, listening, read ...

After a month of progressing and hard work, the Creative Writing Contest was successfully held in the Black Box Theatre last week. Among all the outstanding works that we had received in the first half of the month, five excellent works were shortlisted and were comprehensively presented in the final. ...

The ELC English Presentation Contest was successfully held last Wednesday, November 27, 2019. The Contest aimed at providing a stage for EELC1003 students to fulfill their talent in English presentation and share what they had learned in their EELC1003 class. The target audience was all UM students, ...

Have you thought of working as an author in the future? It sounds dramatic and unachievable but you can have a taste of it in this workshop! This workshop focused on scriptwriting which is not widely discussed among students. Some basic ideas about the settings, the plot, and types of genres were bein ...

Dear students, There was a “Note-taking Workshop” held by ELC last Friday, 25 October 2019. Around twenty students participated in the workshop. During the workshop, they were first exposed to the basic idea of note-taking skills, and then together learned about six commonly used symbols in note-taki ...

Macau is a fast-paced city. Work and study are overwhelming which make us feel stress out and hectic.  If we can’t find a way to release our stress, that may affect our physical and mental health! Art is the best remedy for stress. Through this workshop, students shared their worries while others gav ...

Business Letter Writing Workshop, organised by the English Language Centre, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was held successfully on Friday, 27 September 2019. This academic workshop helped students understand the formal language and the structure of a business letter, and develop effective business ...