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    • Your Course Diary

      One of your course requirements is to keep a course diary during the period of our eight lessons. This personalised record of your experience on the ALPS course will be presented during your final oral test in January, although  I will also be taking in your diary (or asking your to share your digital work) after lesson 5 . 

      How you decide to present and organise your work is entirely up to you.  The two main areas to cover that  I would like to see somehow addressed in your course diary are the following:

      1. The course: a description of each lesson's activities/material  and your assessment, impressions and reflections on the work covered

      2. You the learner: your progress, your approach to learning, your development, your level, what/ how much/ how little you got out of each lesson

      This is  moment of creativity, language expansion and experimentation. I hope you will embrace this mini-project with enthusiam and positivity, considering it an opportunity to express yourself and push the boudaries of advanced language learning.

      The quality of your final product will depend on the quailty of the process you choose to adopt.

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      Additional Material

    • This is an EXCELLENT website, offering a whole myriad of exercises on all aspects of academic English and is useful for revision and extension of lexical items. Click on the picture to be directed the page.

    • This site is also very useful for testing your level. Work through the CAE papaers and then move on to the CPE section. Regular practice is strongly suggested, rather than stressful sessions of cramming language practice during the final study surge before tests! Click on the picture to be directed the page.

    • The Guardian

      In order to further your lexical and grammatical knowledge, enhance skimming and scanning reading skills and gain confidence in English, you should develop the habit of reading every day for a short time. Set up a reading routine and stick to it.

      A  great place to start is by reading the news in English. Click on the title of one of the world's leading newspapers to access The Guardian.  Explore the different sections available: click on 'More' on the left hand side of the section titles and a whole range of subjects will be made available to you.


      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news

    • This page is an excellent resource and contains all sorts of text types and hours of listening for you to explore. Click on the picture below:

      BBC News - Wikipedia


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      Wordle (get your daily fix of playing with lexis)