January 2021 Advanced Use of English

 

These are seminars with time available in each session for a "problem clinic" related to that session´s topic - please click here for more information on our seminars programme. Each topic is also available as "Practice and Feeback" support; please ask for details. A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.

Week One     Monday 4 - Friday 8 January 9.00 - 10.00am daily

Session One : Commas, full-stops
Session Two : Inverted commas, quotation marks
Session Three : Apostrophes
Session Four : Colons, semi-colons
Session Five : Connectors

Week Two     Monday 11 - Friday 15 January 9.00 - 10.00am daily
Session One : Paragraphs
Session Two : Speech - direct, reported, indirect
Session Three : Descriptions
Session Four : Essays
Session Five : Formal letters

Week Three     Monday 18 - Friday 22 January 9.00 - 10.00am daily
Session One : Groups
Session Two : Similar
Session Three : Opposites
Session Four : Sayings
Session Five : Taboo language

Week Four     Monday 25 - Friday 29 January 9.00 - 10.00am daily
Session One : Summing
Session Two : Condensing language
Session Three : Summaries
Session Four : Taking notes
Session Five : Editing

Each session reviews advanced instances and implications of the topic, problem areas, common errors and traps, and includes illustrative exercises and time for a "problem clinic". These seminars are informational rather than discussions. Each topic is also available as "Practice and Feeback" support and through our "on demand" programme; please ask for details.

You can register for one session, one programme, five programmes, all 100 sessions or anything in between! Each session has a maximum size so first come, first served. Delivered by online video conferencing via "Meet".

Presenter Robert Young has a Masters from Oxford, a Bachelors from Auckland, a New Zealand Diploma of Teaching and the RSA DELTA (now Cambridge DELTA). Prior to becoming an international, British, Cambridge and IB school Director, he was a middle and high school English Language and Literature and Journalism teacher in EFL, E2L, E1L, Cambridge International and IB schools.

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