Cambridge English C1 Advanced (CAE) : examination preparation Semester Two 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.

30+ Typical and Traditional Games for your English Week or English Day

Lookng for ideas for typical or traditonal games for your English Day, or your English Stand at the Parent Association's Kermesse? Don't worry. We can help with our 30+ Typical and/or Traditional Games of chance or0 skill, or just games of fun, none of which require buying or building equipment. Many of these games can be used for fund-raising.

Advanced Usage : the making of made

Are you ever unsure of, or even caught unawares by, English mades?

            made by, made for, made from, made in, made of, made on, made out of, made to, made up, made up of, made up with, made with ...

So do it! Join us for explanations and explorations so that you don't have to fake it 'til you make it.

The Key to Effective Pairwork

Pairwork is one of the most effective teaching strategies and should be one of the primary approaches of all teachers, not just English Language and Lang&Lit. This Philosophy and Practice / Methodology seminar for G7 - 12 levels (G5 - 6 teachers will also find it useful) reviews the nuts and bolts of succesful pairwork, and how to avoid some of the more common reasons why pairwork activities are not a huge success.

Planning a Novel Study

If you have not taught a Literature or a Lang & Lit novel study before, or if you want to know how to incorporate a novel unit into your programme, this one-hour overview will get you started on the right path.

Advanced Vocabulary : sit, seat, sitting, seating

Do you sit or be seated? Do you sit someone or seat someone? Is it a sitting or a seating? A siting or a seating? What about sit up and sit down, or a sit-in and a sit-down? Or a sit rep?

May 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. 

Celebrate Star Wars Day

For Star Wars fans, "May the Forth be With You" has a special significance. and so the obvious date to celebrate all things Star Wars is the fourth of May. Take advantage of the students' interest in things far, far away to promote and to celebrate the joys of English.

Celebrate World English Day

Have you considered celebrating World English Day, 23 April each year? Quite apart from English Week and an English Club, World English Day allows you to "honour the importance of the English language and its role as a universal means of communication". Join us in this overview or introductory session as we explore what, when, why and things you can do to observe the day which marks our raison d'être.

Planning and Running an English Club or Workshop

English teachers are often tasked with running an afterschool English Club or High School "English Workshop" with little or no guidance, while even those with experience look for support and new ideas. These sessions provide a road-map to a successful English Club (or Workshop) and ideas you can incorporate into yours.