Designed for teaching at Council of Europe language level CEF - C1. Where CEF is Common European Framework.

Advanced Level English Course

(also suitable for native speakers as General Studies).

• ‘Relatively Speaking’ charts the course of civilisation in approximately 20 hours!
• Written as an on-going role play, or suggestopedic polylogue.
• ‘Relatively Speaking’ presents a lot of information in a lively and challenging way, and offers a great deal of scope for creative development.
• Participants join a whistle-stop tour taking in the caves of Lascaux, the island of Samos, the Great Wall of China, Galileo’s Venice, Newton’s Cambridge, Mendel looking at peas in his monastery garden, Einstein lecturing – and many other landmarks of inspiration which shape the way we understand our world today.
• Exercises, memory maps, activations, discussion follow up
• Teaching notes and visuals on CDROMs, or audio CDs of reading of text are supplied separately

This is not just a ‘history lesson in English’ but a valuable consideration of ideas and ethics.

“Creative, humanistic, and stimulating.”

“The idea of taking up the history of human civilisation was splendid.”