Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback - Grammar : any and some

 

Anyone? Someone? No-one? At times. there and related expressions can be mutually exclusive. At others, the use of each is possible, however the when, the where and the why is significant. 

Cambridge English C1 Advanced (was CAE) Writing : what it is and how to do well

This session covers the Writing section of Cambridge English's C1 Advanced examination. (Formerly CAE, its official name has changed to "C1 Advanced".) This section of the examination focusses on genre, audience, purpose, Use of English and on assessing the candidate's range.

Professional Interview - Practice & Feedback

Applying for a new position will often include an interview, or several, and just like an athlete prepares for a competition or an actor for a performance, teachers should prepare for an interview. Please scroll down for session feedback.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Lower Primary : Philosophy & Practice

 Lower Primary is all about gaining, inculculating and developing the skills and attitudes for success in Middle School and beyond. These sessions focus on both and are also applicable to Early Years and Middle School teachig and learning.

Plug-and-play reading comprehension : a new cancer treatment

"New treatment destroys head and neck cancer tumours in trial"- a plug-and-play lesson involving Reading Comprehension, Use of English, vocabulary acquisition and development, speaking and listening and writing. For use with High School, college and adult learners at B2 and above levels in an EFL programme, or for Middle School and above in an E2L or bilingual programme. Based on a 60-minute lesson.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Methodology : Visual Language

The third pair of modes (after oral and written language) is visual language, and with the same productive and receptive aspects. One of the significant differences between EFL and E2L / E1L is that the latter increasingly include the acquisition, development, analysis and response of visual language. 

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Methodology : Speaking

Student speaking often needs direction and guidance and of course speaking in one language can be quite different from speaking in another. While spontaneous, authentic speaking is of course among the teacher's goals, formal prepared speaking is also important. This session reviews a quck-and-easy, reliable, teacher-friendly method for assessing an oral presentation.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Literature : Essays

A selection of essays suitable for Advanced English users, students and teachers, and for literature teachers, teachers of Cambridge and IB literature or lang & lit programmes. Texts or text-links are sent to participants the day prior to the session(s) to allow for pre-reading. These sessions provide introductory overviews to the essays rather than in-depth literary analyses or methodology programmes.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Methodology : Writing

Writing is hard. Very hard. There is a very good reason why we have one Shakespeare, one Orwell, one Cortazar and one Neruda. The most important time in developing a writer is during his/her Primary years; these sessions explore how to develop and implement an effective writing programme with successful plug-and-play teacher-friendly approaches.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Literature : Short Stories

A selection of short stories suitable for literature teachers, teachers of Cambridge and IB literature or lang & lit programmes, or advanced EFL high school and adult students. Sessions consider works chosen from Cambridge's IGCSE English Literature text lists*, many have also previously featured on IB prescribed book lists, and so are among the works studied worldwide by students at that level.