Study Guide

VLC Online Courses 

You can follow these course programmes at your own pace or use them as reference resources.
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1. English Pronunciation- a comprehensive guide to English phonetics, featuring graphical illustrations, audio and video files (all levels)

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Contents

1 The Organs of Speech    
2 Vowels
  • simple vowels
  • complex vowels
 		5 Summary
3 Consonants
  • Voiced
  • Voiceless
 		6 Revision Exercises
4 Comparative Study of Vowels 7 Gifts
 
2. Mind Your Grammar - an online self-access course in English Grammar for college students (basic - intermediate)

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Contents
1 Some difficult areas: Test Your Grammar    
2 Prepositions 7 Pronouns and Quantifiers
3 Nouns1 : Classes of Nouns 8 Verbs 1: tenses and infinitives
4 Nouns 2 : Using the Articles 9 Verbs 2 : Auxiliaries
5 Adjectives and Adverbs 10 Word Order
6 Pronouns 1: there / it and relatives 11 Summing Up
 
3. Common Errors - common errors in writing English by Chris Green (intermediate)

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Contents
Stage 1: Warm up
  • A Grammar Questionnaire
  • Standard and Non-standard Expression
  • Topicalized Expression
  • Academic versus Informal Language
 Stage 2: Exercise
  • Logical connectors
  • Conjunction
  • Relative Clauses
  • The Definite Article
  • The Passive
  • Subject-Verb and Pronoun-Noun Agreement
  • Errors in Combination
 Stage 3: Cool down
  • Rules
  • Word choices and forms
  • Tense and meaning
 
4. Academic Writer - a course in Academic Writing by Eric Collins (upper intermediate - advanced learners)

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Contents
1 Introductions 6 Style
2 Context 7 Tone
3 Main body 8 Evidence
4 Argument 9 Conclusions
5 Paragraphs 10 Revision Quizzes
 
5. Introduction to IELTS - an introductory course with explanatory notes and practice exercises for IELTS preparation

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Contents
1 General overview    
2 Listening 4 Writing
3 Reading 5 Speaking
 
6. Functional Grammar - an online course in Functional Grammar for university students (upper intermediate - advanced)

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Contents
1 Introduction: Functions and systems 18 Adverbial Submodification
2 Hierarchical ranking of units 19 Noun Modifiers
3 Word Order: chain and choice 20 Logical sequence of adjectives & modifiers
4 Word Groups: the structure of the clause 21 Adjectives Summary
5 Functions of the sentence 22 The Structure of Verbal Groups
6 The structure of nominal groups 23 The Mood System
7 Post-modifiers 24 Finite and Non-finite verbs
8 Rankshift and embedding 25 The meaning of tense
9 Deictics 26 Finite verb forms
10 Pre-deictics 27 Modality
11 Post-deictics 28 Summary of Modal Verb Functions
12 Other modifying words - adjectives 29 Polarity
13 Intrinsic attributes 30 Emphasis
14 Other classes of adjectives 31 Polar Emphasis: Summary
14 Submodification of adjectives 32 Medial and Final Systems
16 Submodification of non-gradable adjectives: colours and classifiers 33 The Meaning of Aspect
17 Participles as adjectives 34 Conceptual Contrasts

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