June 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. 

Ready-to-use lesson as a part of a Sustainable or Renewable Energy unit

Join us as we review this single or double-period lesson plan from go to whoa, providing participants with source material, student activities and teacher notes. The easy-to-follow model will give you a plug-and-play lesson for a green energy unit.

Writing methodology : Reports

Report writing has been identified as the most important skill for engineers, and a highly important skill in many other fields. Reports are also linked to writing summaries, a regular exercise in Language assessments, including EFL, E2L and E1L. This one-hour single-topic session begins with what may be a new activity for many, providing excellent practice for learners and an excellent model which can be duplicated for teachers. 

Last-minute Cambridge English C1 Advanced (was CAE) preparation, problem-solving and error attacks

Planning on taking Cambridge English C1 Advanced (formerly known as CAE) in the next month or two? Need some last-minute support, filling-in of gaps, or clarity? Contact us for support; oftentimes, we can even meet with you the same day. We can help with single or multiple sessions, ranging from covering the entire examination to individual components to specific tasks.

Advanced Use of English - Don't use a dummy

Beginning a sentence with "it is" or "there is", aka cleft sentences, is common in speech, however the use of these dummy subjects is stylistically weak, especially in writing, lowers language register and can be vague or confusing. English has several different ways of avoiding dummy subjects; join us as we explore them. 

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?