Casa · English school · C2 · English 6

Mastery. Twenty lessons in two steps.

Themes along the way: Stylistic inversion and fronting for rhetorical effect · Register, tenor, and mode, formal vs informal vs academic · Advanced cause/effect structures, and on. Each lesson is words, grammar, two exercises you check yourself, a reading, speaking prompts and a short piece of writing.

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Step 1

The foundations, units 1 to 15.

01EpistemologyStylistic inversion and fronting for rhetorical effectStylistic inversion and fronting for rhetorical effectNext up →02SociolinguisticsRegister, tenor, and mode — formal vs informal vs academicRegister shifting — formal, informal, and academic EnglishOpen →03Economic TheoryAdvanced cause/effect structuresAdvanced cause/effect structuresOpen →04Postmodern LiteratureAmbiguity, irony, and pragmatic inference in written EnglishAmbiguity, irony, and pragmatic inferenceOpen →05Constitutional LawLegal English — passive, shall, notwithstanding, hereinafterLegal English — passive voice, "shall," "notwithstanding," "hereinafter"Open →06Evolutionary BiologyScientific hedging at the highest level — tentative conclusions, limitationsScientific hedging — tentative conclusions, limitations, and degrees of certaintyOpen →07GeopoliticsDiplomatic language — euphemism, understatement, indirectnessDiplomatic language — euphemism, understatement, and indirectnessOpen →08Philosophy of LanguagePerformative verbs and speech actsPerformative verbs and speech actsOpen →09Cognitive PsychologyAdvanced cohesive devices — lexical chains, anaphoric/cataphoric referenceAdvanced cohesive devices — lexical chains, anaphoric and cataphoric referenceOpen →10Climate ScienceData interpretation language — correlates with, strong inverse relationshipData interpretation language — describing relationships and trendsOpen →

Step 2

Building on them, units 16 to 20.

11Translation StudiesConnotation vs denotation, false friends, untranslatable conceptsConnotation vs denotation and the limits of translationOpen →12Rhetoric & PersuasionRhetorical devices: tricolon, antithesis, anaphora, chiasmusRhetorical devices: tricolon, antithesis, anaphora, chiasmusOpen →13Medical EthicsPrecision in language — implies, infers, suggests, demonstratesEvidential verbs — implies, infers, suggests, demonstratesOpen →14Architecture TheoryExtended metaphor and analogical reasoning in academic proseExtended metaphor and analogical reasoning in academic proseOpen →15International FinanceNominalisation at scale — converting verbal to nominal styleNominalisation at scale — converting verbal to nominal academic styleOpen →16Digital HumanitiesCorpus linguistics awareness — collocations, concordance, frequencyCollocational competence and corpus awarenessOpen →17Space ExplorationSpeculative and counterfactual reasoning at advanced levelSpeculative and counterfactual reasoning at advanced levelOpen →18Social JusticeInclusive language, bias awareness, politically sensitive terminologyInclusive language, bias awareness, and politically sensitive terminologyOpen →19Artificial General IntelligenceArgument structure — claim, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal (Toulmin model)Argument structure — the Toulmin modelOpen →20The Nature of ConsciousnessComprehensive review — mastery-level transformations across all structuresComprehensive review — mastery-level structures across all C2 unitsOpen →

Teachers: every lesson prints as a worksheet, and the whole level's answers are in one booklet.

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