E.U. Commission Writing Course - Holiday Work

As we will not be meeting again until 7th January, here are some suggestions for keeping up your English over the Christmas period.

One of the best ways of picking up new vocabulary and noticing structures is through listening. BBC Radio 4 has a wealth of material which you can download or listen to on iPlayer.
See  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m28zh and http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hqw0p for European themed programmes. You can urn this into a writing exercise by taking notes while you listen and then writing them up into a brief summary.

Next year we will look at discourse markers and how to link and structure your writing more effectively both at paragraph and sentence level. To get a heads up on this, take a look at the notes http://esl.about.com/cs/advanced/a/a_dmark.htm and exercises https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/advanced/a_grammar/file01/nef_int_grammar_1_01a?cc=us&selLanguage=en here.

Have a Merry Christmas and see you in 2016.

Sean