January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Use of English, how the language works

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information. 

These sessions are among our most popular interactive seminars exploring how English operates, and by implication, how it may differ from Spanish. Remember, these are advanced sessions so basic and intermediate knowledge will be assumed.

Punctuation

Tuesday 2 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Commas and Full-stops

Wednesday 3 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Inverted commas and question marks

Thursday 4 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Apostrophes

Friday 5 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Colons and semi-colons

Vocabulary

Monday 8 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Groups and grouping

Tuesday 9 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Similar words, Synonyms, Euphemisms

Wednesday 10 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Opposites, Antonyms, Oxymorons

Thursday 11 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Sayings and Aphorisms

Friday 12 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Taboo Language

Monday 15 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Ordinals, Dates, Fractions

Tuesday 16 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Why now? Exhortations to act quickly, or not.

Wednesday 17 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Much ado about a-words

Thursday 18 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : What makes a house a home?

Friday 19 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Light, light, lightning, lightening

Writing

Monday 22 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Connectors

Tuesday 23 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Paragraphs

Wednesday 24 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Speech : direct, indirect and reported

Thursday 25 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Narratives

Friday 26 January 2024

9.00 - 10.00am : Essays

Complete the "Contact Us" form on the right to request fee and registration information, or to ask about institutional rates.

Single-topic, stand-alone sessions, which you can combine to form a more comprehensive programme. Join any or all - and ask about the multi-session discount for taking five or more of any of our January 2024 sessions). 

Each session $5000 including the teacher self-pay discount; additional multi-session discounts are available. Ask about institutional rates.

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• A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.

• These are one-hour synchronous online video conferencing sessions.

• These are open enrolment group sessions. Ask us about closed programmes where you choose who, what, where and when.

• Open session group-sizes are limited to allow for participation and questions.
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