ECS-Club Mission
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ECS-Club is the place where you can practise your spoken English and engage in meaningful social interaction. The benefits of participating in our live sessions are many. At ECS-Club you:
When you participate in ECS-Club live sessions, you can:
If you wish to give a presentation, talk or recommendation, you may wish to submit your contribution by email for review and suggestions for improvement, if any. This should help you avoid feeling worried about your language when you speak in front of other people.
Public speaking has become an essential skill to have and there's nothing better to help than do some public speaking in a fairly relaxed atmosphere like that of ECS-Club's.
While preparing your contribution (presentation or talk), you can try to answer these questions in order to have purpose and focus:
- take part in speaking activities like presentations, talks, debates and discussions.
- engage in public social interaction.
- promote your language ability through active use.
- make new real-life friendships.
- get heard.
- explore different thinking styles and viewpoints.
When you participate in ECS-Club live sessions, you can:
- give a presentation.
- give a short talk.
- take part in a discussion or debate.
- give a recommendation and talk about it. (You can recommend a book to read, an article, a particular writer, a film to watch, a piece of music, a composer or singer, a website, etc)
If you wish to give a presentation, talk or recommendation, you may wish to submit your contribution by email for review and suggestions for improvement, if any. This should help you avoid feeling worried about your language when you speak in front of other people.
Public speaking has become an essential skill to have and there's nothing better to help than do some public speaking in a fairly relaxed atmosphere like that of ECS-Club's.
While preparing your contribution (presentation or talk), you can try to answer these questions in order to have purpose and focus:
- What do I want my audience to know?
- Why do I want them to know this?
- Do I want to motivate them to take some sort of action?
- How do I say enough in the time allowed (usually 10 minutes)? What is essential and what is not?
- How do I make the audience relate to what I say?
- How do I demonstrate a consistent and solid train of thought?
- the title of the book
- the name of the author
- the number and size of pages
- the genre/topic of the book
- a brief of the content
- why you recommend it