Advanced Vocabulary : Ordinals, Dates, Fractions

Ordinals, fractions and dates in English have much in common and present many of the same challenges to Spanish speakers. This session reviews commonalities, differences and common or uncommon uses.

Advanced Use of English Vocabulary : Why now? Exhortations to act quickly, or not.

English has a number of aphorisms and common expressions which urge you to act quickly, and others which warn you of the perils of doing so. This session reviews more than twenty of these, what they mean and when and how to use them. 

Advanced Use of English Vocabulary : much ado about a-words

The story of English includes grabbing words from different languages and places, including a group which begin with "a" like asleep, ashamed, akin and akimbo ... what do they have in common? what do they mean? how do they operate? This Advanced Vocabulary session looks at this group of words, through the three lenses of acquisition and development.  

Advanced Use of English : Commas and Full Stops

 

Let's eat Grandma.

Let's eat, Grandma?

Let's eat. Grandma!

Punctuation matters, it can even save lives. Join us as we review complex and problematic uses of commas and full-stops in English.

Advanced Use of English Vocabulary : Speech - direct, reported, indirect

"He said, she said". Not the most engaging of dialogues. "He asked, she answered" is marginally better. Advanced students and users can beautify their reporting, and open a whole new stylistic, linguistic wardrobe, by using indirect reporting. What is this? Find out through this one-hour exploration.

Condensing

 

Condensing is reducing the length of an utterance without losing meaning, encompassing editing, rewriting and "substitution and ellipsis"; it is not paraphrasing or summarising. This session review four main types of condensing language, examples and approaches, for Advanced English users and teachers.

Summarising

Summing

 

Summing, summing up, summarising - all similar but different. This Advanced Use of English session explores these terms, their significances and uses. A follow-up to and reinforcement of our Advanced Use of English session on Groups and Classes.