As well as our more usual ongoing coaching and examination preparation support, we also offer single-topic and single skill Practice & Feedback sessions. Here is the current list; please do not hesitate to contact us about any Advanced Use of English concerns you have as we are continually developing new sessions, and what you want may already exist or be in the pipeline.
Structure
- Adverbials
- Any & Some
- Avoiding dummy subjects
- Cleft sentences
- Conditionals, a quick review
- Don't use a dummy, avoiding dummy subjects
- English has not future; talking about tomorrow
- Gerunds & Infinitives
- Inversions
- Modals
- Modals of deduction
- Modals of obligation
- Present Perfect with for and since
- Relative clauses
- The The - articles in English
- Transformations
- Transitive & Intransitive verbs
- Would Cooda Shooda (to come)
Vocabulary
- Agree (or not)
- Counting Uncountables - most "uncountables" can be counted. Find out which and why.
- Dates
- F-bombs
- Indirect Reporting
- Light
- Making of "made"
- Much ado about a-words
- Talking about nothing
- Not so smart - talking about the less gifted (to come)
- Numbers and Quantities
- Ordinals, Dates, Fractions
- Relations or Relationships, it's relative
- Sit, seat, sitting, seating
- Still not yet already? Any more?
- Taboo language - words we shouldn`t use but do
- Times
- Un mis dis and not
- Went Went Went
- What make a house a home?
- Why now? Exhortations to act quickly, or not.
- Woke
Usages
- Aphorisms and idioms for acting early
- Aphorisms and idioms for death
- Aphorisms and idioms for the not so smart
- Cleft sentences using "what" and "all", aka inversions aka transformations
- Commas and Full-stops
- Don't use a dummy
- Like Fillers You Know
- Pronunciation challenges for Chilean speakers
- Range Register and Nuance
- Spelling traps
- The Five Features of Voice (in oral production)
Remember also to click on the "Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback" category to the right for more.
These are one-hour online video-conferencing sessions; an in-person, face-to-face option is also available. A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.
- These sessions come from our Advanced English series. Click on the label(s) to the right for related programmes. Ask us about programmes and support related to Advanced English.
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