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L9 Grammar

duration: 4 weeks
price: free
Academic English

About this Course

This course focuses on basic English grammar skills for advanced English learners.

For the course syllabus, student forms, and policies, please refer to Student Resources on the TLC website.

Learning modules

  • Week One
    • Live Session, Grammar 04-21-2020

    • Live Session, Grammar 04-22-2020

    • Strong Areas in Grammar

    • Eight (8) Parts of Speech

    • Live Session, Grammar 04-23-2020

    • Review of a Favorite Movie or Episode

    • Make or Do I

    • Make or Do II

    • Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

  • Week Two
    • Live Session, Grammar 04-27-2020

    • Active to Passive

    • Adjective Clauses and Music

    • Live Session, Grammar 04-28-2020

    • Reported Speech

    • Two Clauses from Song Lyrics

    • Prediction for the Future (Fifty Years)

    • Live Session, Grammar 04-29-2020

    • True in the Present or Future

    • Untrue in the Present or Future

    • Untrue in the Past

    • Story about Wishes and Possible Regrets

    • Article Usage ("Handout")

    • Live Session, Grammar 04-30-2020

    • Non-specific to Specific, Article Use

    • Article Usage II ("Handout")

    • Article Usage III ("Handout")

  • Week Three
    • Live Session, Grammar 05-04-2020

    • A Trip to a Museum (with Clauses)

    • A Trip to a Museum (with Clauses including Past Participles)

    • Reducing Adverb Clauses

    • Live Session, Grammar 5-5-2020

    • The Butterfly Effect

    • Conjunctive Adverbs

    • A Friend's Life-changing Cause

    • Live Session, Grammar 05-06-2020

    • Adverb Clause Marker: WHEN (PAST)

    • Adverb Clause Marker: WHEN (FUTURE)

    • Adverb Clause Reduction (Upon)

    • Letter of Interest

    • Live Session, Grammar 05-07-2020

    • Paraphrasing a Quote on Grammar

    • Irregular Plural Nouns

  • Week Four
    • Live Session, Grammar 05-11-2020

    • Conjunctive Adverbs

    • Supposed to (regarding another)

    • Used to (regarding Myself)

    • Live Session, Grammar 05-12-2020

    • Strong Verbs + Celebrity

    • Story, Passive

    • Live Session, Grammar 05-13-2020

    • Modal Story, Hobby

    • Live Session, Grammar 05-14-2020

About the Instructor

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Joe Sorrell

Thank you for sharing your world with us!

Hello! My name is Joe Sorrell, and I would like to be part of your success with English. I have studied many tricky and sticky language concepts over the years and have developed strategies to help students overcome their language-learning anxieties. My graduate studies and experiences have helped me earn a deep and enduring appreciation for international students and the unique challenges language learners sometimes experience. If I can be of service, please contact me and be sure to forward any difficult language situations that we can face . . . together!

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