12 June 2021

Advanced Vocabulary : light, light, lightning, lightening

What is a light, alight, light and light, a lighter, a lighter and lighter? Lightning and lightening and lightening? What about lit and lighted? Or lightered?

What looks like a simple word has many uses and many meanings. This advanced vocabulary one-hour single-topic session focusses on accuracy, appropriacy and on developing the speaker's range, while considering the many different forms, meanings and usages, both literal and metaphorical.

  • Word families
  • Conjugations
  • Usages, idiomatic and figurative 
  • Related vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms 
  • Uses and misuses
  • Metaphorical usages
  • Aphorisms

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