Summarising |
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http://lsa.colorado.edu/summarystreet/ |
Paraphrasing |
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Cohesive Devices/Linking or Signalling Words |
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Punctuation |
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http://www.edufind.com/english/punctuation/index.php |
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/6/ | the Oxford Comma |
Business Letters & Emails |
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Model Business Letter and Email |
Sample Cover Letter | http://www.4hb.com/letters/index.html
Variety of sample business letters and emails |
Drawing up an outline |
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http://www.lavc.edu/library/outline.htm |
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-an-Outline | http://writing.pppst.com/outlines.html
Select "Making an Outline" | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14683857.2011.556428 | Branching (concept mapping, mind mapping or clustering): A non-linear alternative technique to outlining | Paragraph Structure- Topic Sentence |
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Prepositions |
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Word Order |
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Verb Tenses |
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Commulative Verb Tense Review |
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/1/ | Passive Voice | Video on Simple Past vs. Present Perfect | Tenses in Academic English | Future Forms | Simple Past vs Past Continuous | Past Continuous vs used to game | Past Continuous, Past Simple and used to | Talking about the Past_ British Council | Verb Tenses in Academic Writing | Timeline of Verb Tenses | Verbs |
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Modal Verbs |
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Modals of Ability |
Modals of Obligation | Modals of Probability | can, could, be able to | can, could, be able to- esl lounge | Difference between can/be able to | can vs may | Ability, Permission, Requests, Advice_British Council |
Reported Speech |
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Verbs for Reporting in Academic Writing |
Exercise on Reporting Verbs-Oxford University Press | quiz on reported speech | quiz on reported speech 2 | Reporting verbs_ "complete the appropriate verb" exercise | Video_Passive verbs with "that" clauses (It is thought...) | Reporting verbs_positive, negative, neutral | List of Reporting Verbs_Strong, weak, neutral | Syntax of Reporting Verbs | Reporting Verbs Exercise_ Direct_Indirect Speech_select reporting verb | Strong/weak Author & Direct/Indirect Quotations |
Gerunds vs Infinitives |
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Exercise on Gerunds vs Infinitive |
Advanced Exercise-Final Test | Gerund or Infinitive- Reference Verb List | Understanding News Broadcasting/ newspaper articles |
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Business Vocabulary |
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Banking-Stock Market-Trading |
Banking | Accounting | General Finance Vocabulary | Marketing | Advertising | Sales | General Business Vocabulary 1 | Business Vocabulary 2 | Franchising | Talking about the Economy 1 | Talking about the Economy 2 | Game on International Relations vocabulary | Collocations |
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EU Institutions |
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Listening Comprehension-Film Clips |
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The Great Gatsby-Film clip and multiple choice exercise |
Videos & Slide presentations on various issues of International interest |
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Citation Styles |
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Diagnostic Grammar & Vocabulary Test |
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Passive Voice |
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Various exercises on the Passive Voice |
Why use the passive voice in academic writing? | Passive Voice_British Council |
Conditional Sentences |
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conditional sentences-complex test |
wishes & hypotheses | Wishes about the Past vs. Hopes about the future | Verbs in Time Clauses and If Clauses | Videos 2016-17 |
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Relative Clauses |
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Countable vs Uncountable Nouns |
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Grammar and exercise _ British Council |
Plural Nouns | English for Academic Research_ English Grammar (tricky cases eg. verb agreement ) | Various cases | Videos_2018-19 |
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Academic Writing |
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