Unit 2 – Unit 3 – Unit 4 – Unit 5 – Final Exams
English / WR102
Unit 2 – Unit 3 – Unit 4 – Unit 5 – Final Exams
1 TD (1 hour 1/2)
All course material is available on Moodle and must be downloaded prior to the beginning of each session.
Article/Questions: Jill Stein for The Economist (Aug 10th 2013): ‘Nous Twitterons’, The French language is getting battered by social media
Grammar Review: Adjectives vs Adverbs
Adjectives and Adverbs–What’s the Difference? on Grammarly Blog*
*Grammerly Blog is a great, slightly offbeat website dedicated to English grammar and more generally, English usage.
Adjectives and Adverbs on BBC Learning English
(You might also want to take a look at the activities regarding adverb position: intermediate 15 & intermediate 19)
Englisch Hilfen is a German website with a wealth of information and exercises with answers that will prove very helpful to those of you in need of a serious brush-up of their English grammar.
The Open University: The History of English in Ten Minutes – See the 10 tracks
In this session, we will use the video “Global English”, but you might want to take a look at the other nine videos of this course on the history of English.
Ted Talks: The World’s English Mania – The more advanced students among you will probably have time to take on a more challenging activity by completing the transcript of this Ted Talk show about the overwhelming popularity of the English language – View the video on Ted Talks
In this session, we will focus on the most common sound of the English language: the “schwa”. This sound may correspond to any written short vowel in a weak syllable. Make sure you have downloaded the pronunciation exercises on the bureau virtuel. For more information and practice, please review the following links.
BBC Learning English pronunciation tips: Tim’s Workshop – archive
Article on The Mental Floss: read.