Advanced Use of English - cleft sentences using "what" and "all" aka inversions aka transformations

 

A cleft sentence is one where sentence order is changed so as to give more emphasis to a particular element. This session reviews sentences beginning with "what" and "all" where the real subject is yet to appear. 

Advanced Use of English - relative clauses

You can define people, things, places and activities with a relative clause beginning with who, that, which, where, when, whose or whom.  What are Defining Relative Clauses, Non-Defining Relative Clauses and most problematic of all, Reduced Relative Clauses some of which function as post-modifying adjectivals?

Creating a student-centred teacher-friendly lesson with an online video

Online videos provide immediate, relevant and up-to-date content while offering teachers exciting, engaging and useful source material for language and media/media literacy lessons.

Advanced Use of English - modals of deduction

 

He might have. She must have. They can't have. Well done Sherlock!

Advanced Use of English - modals of obligation

Do you have to do it? Must you do it? Perhaps you ought to. Or should.   

And that chocolate - mustn't I eat it? Or shouldn't I?

May 2023

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Introduction to Cambridge English certification for Primary and Secondary students

This overview is ideal for teachers new to Cambridge English certification for school students or in their first two years of preparing students for these examinations.

Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) for Primary students : Starters, Movers, Flyers

Cambridge English for Schools (EfS) for Secondary students : Key (was KET), Preliminary (was PET) and First (was FCE) 

B2 Reading Short Texts - ready-to-use lessons

This session comes from our Reading Philosophy & Practice series for use with B2-level students, at High School and above, based on the view that wide-ranging, short texts read frequently are key to developing curiosity, reading and thus language prowess. 

April 2023

Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or contact us for registration information. The events below are open group sessions from our Seminars, Advanced Use of English and Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private programmes. 

Plug-and-play reading - Cinderella

 

Cinderella is useful both as a language or reading text and as an example of fairy-tales. Join us as we review this single or double plug-and-play lesson outline, touching on both story-telling and early literary analysis.