Topics:

• Presentations
• Study skills - learning styles, reading and making notes, essay writing skills
• Writing short reports
• Writing letters and emails
  
• Participating in discussions on key issues e.g. the environment, local community issues, crime, politics, the news
• Talking about yourself
  
• Work - following and giving explanations and instructions, giving and taking constructive criticism
• Work - writing memos, letters and emails
• Reading skills - skimming and scanning for information
• Advanced grammar
• Punctuation
• Spelling
• Collocation
• Metaphor
• Connotation and cultural associations
• Register
• Polsemy
• Idioms
  
• Phrasal verbs
  
• Abbreviations and acronyms
  

• Teacher: Angela Boothroyd