Advanced Use of English Vocabulary : still not yet already? any more?

Have you still not finished already? Are you still to start? Or yet to finish? Already done it or done it already? We could go for a full hour on the distinctions and nuances of these simple little words.

Advanced Vocabulary : er, who does that?

The easiest way of saying who does what in English is to add "-er" to the verb thus talk > talker. Of course, this is not the only way. Variants and exceptions abound, traps lie in wait and sometimes competing and commons forms from the same origin mean completely different things.

Multimodal (Audio/Visual) Language Comprehension : a plug-and-lesson related to green energy

Teachers new to bilingual and/or international programmes may lack the knowledge and/or experience needed to incorporate visual language in their classes. This session provides a double-period ready-to-use lesson plan with the original multimodal text (video and audio), transcript, language development activities and visual language teaching points with the necessary underlying conceptual content.

Advanced Use of English : agree (or not)

You might think that using "agree" and its family in English accurately and appropriately does not present too many problems, however at an advanced level, and for E2L / ESL and E1L users, you would be wrong. Discussing agreeing is more tricky than it looks and, like so many other words and phrases at these levels, nuance is everything.

February 2024

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. 

Cambridge English C1 Advanced (CAE) : examination preparation Semester One 2024

Open-group preparation for the Cambridge English C1 Advanced (formerly known as "CAE") Examination. We cover knowing and understanding the examination and its components, Practice of & Feedback on each component, and success and preparation strategies. Whether you are registering for the examination, or are considering it and want to know how to succeed, this programme provides what you need to know.

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf

Our four-part series on this work by one of the most important and influential feminist literary voices. This text is suitable for Cambridge and IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes. 

Teaching Reading and Reading in the Early Years

Recently, Teaching Reading and Reading in the Early Years (aka "Very Young Learners") have been widely discussed in both the general and educational media, and several popular approaches have been discredited and debunked. Join us as we review an effective and proven Philosophy and set of Practices to help you get your students reading which does not require intensive investment.

Cambridge English C1 Advanced (was CAE) one-day specific intensives

From time to time, we may offer a one-day five-session review of a specific C1 Advanced paper, one day devoted for example to Paper One Reading & Use of English, or of a specific component such as Transformations or the Speaking Long-Turn. So if you need only to work on something on one area or one skill. this is just what you need.

Individual Oral Presentations - teaching and evaluating speeches

Preparing students to give Individual Oral Presentations (aka "IOPs") is a part of most, if not all, English Teaching & Learning and Evaluation programmes, and the most common IOP is the speech. Join us in this top-level review of the what and the how of speechifying, and of preparing students for the assessed speech elements of international programmes.