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CELE
(CELE) the university of Nottingham's centre for
English language education provides high quality
academic English and study skills preparation and
support before and during your studies, it is part of
a world-learning school of education, it is ranked
as 28th in the world. it offers, cutting edge course,
experienced professional tutors, individual tutori-
als, great social program and first class facilities
and services such as: library, sport centre, Atrium
restaurant, Aspire café, terrazzo café and others.
moreover, there is an activity that some volunteers
from native speakers run once every week to help
the international students improve their speaking
skill which is called table talk .
December
2014
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
Public Transportation
IBIS Hotel
CELE
Restaurant And Café
Table Talk
Mahara
Library
Social Events
Research Reports
Technology: One of the ways
for learning English
Grammatical Mistakes
Created by :
Majed Althagafi
Areej Alharbi
Hafsa Al Abdullateef
Amal Al oqbei
Akmaral Imangaliyeva
ARMAH’s
Journey
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Name: Ahmed S. Obaid Al-
jumailiy
Nationality: Iraqi
Main subject: MSc Animal
resources
Future subject: PhD Genetics
Name: Alaa Abdulmajeed
Mashabi
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: BSc pharmacy
Future subject:MSc drug
discovery and pharmacutical
Name: Hafsa Al Abdullateef
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: BSc Computer&
Information Systems
Future subject:MSc Information
Technology
Name: Mohsen Alhalmani
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: BA English
literature and Linguistic
Future subject: Linguistic
Name: Yerbolat Ibraikhanov
Nationality: Kazakhstan
Main subject: Master of Public
Policy
Future subject: Politics
Armah group
Name: Awat Jamal Hasan
Nationality: Kurdish
Main subject: BSc Nursing
Future subject: MSc Advanced
Nursing
Name: Akmaral Imangaliyeva
Nationality: Kazakhstan
Main subject: BSc Information
systems
Future subject: MSc Human
Computer Interaction
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Name : Nurtas Karipbaev
Nationality: Kazakh
Main subject: BSc Public
Administration
Future study: MSc Public
Administration
Name: Amal Al oqbei
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: BA in English
Language
Future study: MA, Linguistics
Name: Akil Alshawi
Nationality: Iraq
Main subject : MSc Genetics
Future subject: PhD – Genetic
Name : Waleed Rashid Palani
Nationality :Kurdish/Iraq
Main subject : BSc Agriculture
plant protection
Future subject: MSc Plant
genetic manipulation
Name: Asmaa Saad
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: BA English
literature and Linguistic
Future subject: Linguistic
Name: Areej Alharbi
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: MSc Mathematics
in functional analysis
Future subject: PhD Mathematics
in functional analysis
Armah group
Name: Majed Althagafi
Nationality: Saudi
Main subject: BA English
literature and Linguistic
Future subject: Linguistic
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The transport service in Nottingham city is well develop.
It includes acceptable network of Buses, Tram, Taxi, and Trains.
While the bus and taxi are cover most regions of Nottingham city,
the tram does not covers all the parts of city .The prices of
transport vary. If you take tram ticket, it is with 3 pounds for one-
way. Otherwise, you can take NCT bus ticket for all day with 3.5
pounds only. The service is available 24 hour for Train, Taxi but
not to Buses and Tram.
Akil Alshawi
Alaa Abdulmajeed
Ibis hotel is quit and modern hotel in the heart of the historical
Lace Market district of Nottingham. It is located 10 minutes walk
from all major public transportations. The hotel has a good loca-
tion next to shopping centre. The room was very comfortable and
large .Every staff member I encountered was friendly, pleasant, and
extremely helpful.
Asmaa Saad
Social Events
One of the important services provided by the University of
Nottingham is social events. These social events are for School
of Education students only. Every student will be able to book
their place two weeks before to the data of the event on the
School of Education website for Students. Fortunately, some of
the services are free of charge, such as the trip to Nottingham-
shire, Blackpoll Illuminations and Liverpool.
Awat Jamal Hasan
The Student Lodge is the first class
accommodation which is located in Player
Street. This location is considered as a great
location for students because it takes only a
few minutes from the University of Not-
tingham Jubilee Campus. The accommoda-
tion provides standard en-suite and studio
rooms which all have a modern and stylish
design. I would recommend this accommo-
dation because it is cheaper than others.
Akmaral Imangaliyeva, Waleed Rashid Palani
Sir Harry and lady Djagnoly Library is a quiet fantastic
place, located near the bus stop and opposite Exchange building.
The first impression about the building that is a mix between
modern and old architecture that because of the iron structure and
wood on the outside of it with wooden arch in the main entrance.
This gives a mixture between the past and the present. The build-
ing is located in the centre of lake, which gives it a charming
view and makes it very comfortable study environment.
Ahmed S. Obaid Al-jumailiy
Nottingham: Facilities & Services
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Jubilee Campus: Facilities & Services
Aspire café is a modern design
café on the ground floor in Ameni-
ties building next to the student ser-
vices reception and next to the stu-
dents‟ classes. It is easy to go to
Prayer Muslim Room which is in
the first floor.
Food is delicious
and varied it has
a wide selection
of delicious food
such as English
cake, pastries
and fresh healthy
sandwiches and
the prices are suitable for students.
In addition, it offers fresh juice and
hot drinks like coffee and tea. The
service was generally excellent. The
Staff were very helpful and availa-
ble every time. Aspire café is an ide-
al cafe for breakfast and lunch.
Areej Alharbi
Terrazzo café is located in
the Exchange building near the
bus stop where all the buses of
the university stop . Thus it
could be easy for students while
they are waiting for the buses to
have some
coffee or oth-
er things from
it. Further-
more , there is
a mini market
beside it
where they
can take a
look at it while they are waiting
for their order or they can buy
something added to their meal .
No far away from the café there
is a book shop which sales some
English learning books and sta-
tionary . Inside the hall of the
Exchange building and near the
café, there are some computers
which makes this location even
more appealing to students as
they can have their meals and
and do some works using com-
puter in the same place.
Amal Al oqbei
The Atrium Restaurant is inside the Jubilee Campus
close to the Exchange Building
and the Dearing Building It
serves so many different types
of food and drinks plus the food
is delicious. Also, it opens from
early morning till late. It's a nice
place to eat in.
Mohsen Alhalmani
Table Talk is an activity carried
out for an hour each week in the
term at and it is hosted in the Dear-
ing building in University of Not-
tingham . This activity includes a
group of international students and
group leaders with main organizer.
They meet to talk and share opinions
on different topics.
Hafsa Al abdullateef
Mahara
Nowadays, with the widespread
use of technology most of stu-
dents‟ problems regarding feed-
back are solved. In the Universi-
ty of Nottingham, they apply
technology in a programme that
is called “ Mahara “. Mahara is a
sophisticated website that has
been programmed by another
university but the rights have
been acquired by the University
of Nottingham. The purpose of
Mahara is to make it easier for
students to send and having their
work evaluated by tutors. Each
and every student will have an
account through which they can
easily send their work and share
it not only with tutors but also
with classmates.
Majed saeed althagafi
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Technology: One of the ways for learning English
Figure 1 shows information about websites
which international students use to practise
listening and note-taking skills for aca-
demic purposes and/or for general listen-
ing skills. You can also practise the listen-
ing skills from movies or Ted talks which
might be useful for pronunciation because
the English spoken in movies is very natu-
ral.
(Figure 2) represents information about web-
sites/applications which International students
use to explore and develop their vocabulary. It
is obvious that from the graph, there are lots
of useful websites that respondents pointed in
the survey. First of all, two famous sources
such as “oxford dictionaries” and “Google
translate” took first places. It is possible that
using different types of dictionaries is one of
the ways for improving and developing
spelling and pronunciation of words as well as
English vocabulary.
By: Akmaral Imangaliyeva
Nowadays there are different online resources which students can use to learn English. They
are useful to improve grammar and vocabulary and to develop academic writing and reading
skills. This research focuses on International students at the University of Nottingham, in the
Centre for English Language Education (CELE). It was found that on average the majority of
respondents preferred to use online resources (80-100%) for learning English rather than tradi-
tional methods.
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Grammatical Mistakes: Reasons And Types
In a recent study at CELE UoN, a number of students on the presessional course were inter-
viewed to find out the most common mistakes in writing and what they though the reason of
their mistakes. Because of the importance of accuracy in writing for the students, I chose to
write research about the common mistakes that the E-learners make in writing and the reasons of
making these mistakes.
Based on this study. There is a definite need to
overcome this problem otherwise the students
would write meaningless and vague topics
then lose marks in the assessment. So that it
could be helpful if the students work hard and
practise the English grammars by using useful
websites and text books, . As a result of these
suggestions, the students can achieve great
progress in writing and find it easy to write
accurately in their future studies.
By : Amal Al oqbei
It has been found out that the grammatical
mistakes were the most common mistakes
in student‟s writings which prompted me
to focus on this area and identify more
specifically the types of grammatical mis-
takes that occur in students writing.
As it is shown in figure 2, the majority of
students had problems with the sentence
structure. Closely linked to this was the
problem of using tenses. Furthermore,
23% of the students had mistakes in using
articles; using a with uncountable nouns
(e.g. a money) or omission of the indefi-
nite article with singular countable nouns
(e.g. when I was child.It seems that the
students could not understand some gram-
matical rules correctly because of the dif-
ference between the rules in their mother
language and the rules in English lan-
guage. Furthermore, the kind and the
length of a topic could be a reason of do-
ing mistakes .For example writing a long
assignment or presentation could be more
difficult than writing a short piece as the
long assignment needs more details and
explanations then using more grammars
which could confuse students and make
them do a lot of mistakes.
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How do CELE classes like?
There are two classes, morning class and afternoon class. Also, there is a weekly
session about grammar. There are three tutors and the whereabouts are variable. Also,
there are language advice sessions, they are 7 and you can book a one via Moodle.
How will I be assessed?
You will have to conduct primary research and a reflective essay. Then you will be
orally examined in Viva. The language advisor will walk you through.
How can I use the University computers?
On the first day, you will be given a username and password. Then, you need to go
through the online registration process which you will see how to do this then.
How can I practise my English out of class in CELE?
You can use the Toolkit and VSAC on Moodle, besides you could use the library re-
sources and you could go to Table talk on a weekly basis (see page 5)
Where can I get information about accommodation?
For University accommodation, you can either go to the Accommodation
Office (University Park) or try to go to Student Support (Portland Building,
University Park)
For private accommodation, you could visit theses websites:
Rightmove and Zoopla.
How can I open a bank account?
You may visit the Students' Services website:
(www.nottingham.a.cuk/studentservices) and click on „Bank Letters. This
will produce a form which you will fill a request for a bank letter. You can
then pick this up from Students‟ Services 24 hours later. You can take this
letter to any Bank to open an account.
How can I register with the police?
You can register with the police in Yang Fujia building in floor C
(international office)