CUHK English Language Teaching Unit

11/09/2026

Here are some tips on using visual aids from Toastmasters.

Learn the best ways to use visual aids and props to reinforce your message on stage

10/09/2026

🌏 Can fiction help us understand climate change and environmental challenges?

Join Creative Writing Night 2: Writing the Environment and explore how writers use storytelling to imagine possible futures, respond to environmental issues, and inspire readers to think differently about our relationship with the natural world.

In this workshop, you'll:

🌿 Learn what eco-literature is and why it matters
📚 Explore how writers respond creatively to environmental issues
✍️ Create your own eco-inspired piece of writing

No experience required. Just bring your curiosity and creativity.

🍪 Snacks and drinks provided!

📅 Thursday, 8 October 2026
🕡 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
📍 YIA608
👨‍🏫 Facilitator: Dr Benjamin Driscoll

👉 Register via the QR code on the poster.

10/09/2026

✈️ Love travelling? Obsessed with food? Got stories worth sharing?

Join us for Creative Writing Night 1: Places and Plates, where we'll explore how writers turn travel experiences and culinary adventures into compelling stories for both the page and the screen.

During this interactive workshop, you'll:

📖 Learn the basics of travel and food writing
🤝 Meet other student writers and storytellers
🎥 Discover how travel and food stories can be adapted for short-form video content

Whether you're an aspiring writer, content creator, foodie, or traveller, this workshop will help you develop new storytelling skills and fresh creative ideas.

🍪 Snacks and drinks provided!

📅 Tuesday, 29 September
🕡 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
📍 YIA608
👩‍🏫 Facilitator: Ms Jenna Lee

👉 Register via the QR code on the poster.

04/09/2026

📚🎉 Live Readings, Free Pizza, & a Free Book? Count us in!
Join us for the launch of Genesis Issue 7: Sound and Silence and celebrate this year's ELTU Creative Writing Competition winners.
✨ Live author readings
✨ Audience Q&A
✨ Awards presentation
✨ Free copy of Genesis
✨ Free pizza, snacks & drinks
📅 24 Sept 2026 | 🕡 6:30-8:00 PM
📍 User Education Room, G/F, CUHK Main Library
RSVP: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/9m09zrhgdt?origin=lprLink
Registration encouraged, walk-ins welcome!

04/09/2026

This guide from UCL has tips on editing and reviewing your writing.

Learn how to review, edit and improve your academic writing, understanding feedback and responding to it.

31/08/2026

This video from the British Council gives some tips for how to approach the IELTS writing task 2.

How do the IELTS examiners assess the Academic Writing Test? And wh...

21/08/2026

Here is a guide to how lecturers might review their ideas during their lectures.

Speakers build redundancy into their speech by recycling the main points, by paraphrasing, repeating or summarising.

14/08/2026

Here are some tips on speaking to diverse audiences from Toastmasters.

Learn to be mindful of diverse audiences when you speak

07/08/2026

This guide from UCL has tips on understanding the requirements of an assignment.

Learn to understand and meet assessment requirements.

27/07/2026

This video from the British Council gives some tips for how to approach the IELTS writing task 1.

IELTS Writing Task 1 is often a challenge for students taking IELTS...