Promote and Celebrate English in your school on Friday the Thirteenth

Often considered unlucky, Friday the Thirteenth has a specil significance in western culture. What and why? Join us as we explore the significance of this "special" day and how you can avoid the black cat, skirt the ladder and protect yourself from indoor rain while promoting and celebrating English.  

Cambridge English C1 Advanced (CAE) : examination preparation Semester Two 2025

Open-group semi-intensive programme, 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.

June 2025

 

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Promote and Celebrate English in your school with Lost Sock Memorial Day

Observe a minute's silence in respect for all those socks whose life partners have left, have gone, have disappeared into the void. Despite all our best efforts, something, somewhere, somehow separates these generally identical twins, sending one who knows where. As we ponder this impossible puzzle, let's celebrate English.

Advanced Vocabulary - On Yer Bike!

Much English vocabulary is really just general knowledge related to things studied in school, things Chilean students know but which they studied in Spanish, and this leads to large vocabulary gaps which persist into advanced levels. We have you covered with these vocabulary-builder and reading comprehension sessions. 

May 2025

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Issues in Educational Governance

 

Educational governance relates to big-picture, strategic and philosophical considerations when overseeing a school, a programme or teaching, learning and evaluation. It is the "why?" and "why not?", rather than the what, when and how.

April 2025

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Poetry "Rain" by Edward Thomas

Thomas has been called an "almost war-poet" which mght be why he is not well-known, yet this poem is one which everyone should at least have read. Join us as we review the work and ask, is it just a poem about rain? Suitable for advanced EFL students and teachers, and frequently included in GCSE and IGCSE Literature text lists.

March 2025

Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or complete the "Contact Us" form to the right 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.