Here you can find a presentation by Han Rosling. Please watch it one or two times while taking notes, and then write a summary, which should be one double-spaced page. You can send your summaries to me before our session on Thursday, 25th of April.

Here you can find a presentation by Han Rosling.  Please watch it one or two times while taking notes, and then write a summary, which should be one double-spaced page. You can send your summaries to me before our session on Thursday, 25th of April.

Countable and uncountable nouns and quantifiers

Here is a document with information and exercises on countable and uncountable nouns; the key to the exercises in hereby made available.

Here is another document with information and exercises on countable and uncountable nouns.

Second summary exercise

Here you can find a presentation by Han Rosling.  Please watch it one or two times while taking notes, and then write a summary, which should be one double-spaced page. You can send your summaries to me before our session on Thursday, 25th of April.

Composite sentences with future tenses

Here you can find many exercises on future tenses.  I am also hereby making a list of all the tenses and key words available. You can do exercises 18 - 28, which deal with future tenses. Remember: we do not use 'will' in the part of these sentences with the linking word.

Future tenses

Here you can find many exercises on tenses.  I am also hereby making a list of all the tenses and key words available. You can do exercises 18 - 28, which deal with future tenses.

Capitalization

Here you can find a quiz on capitalization with the explanations for the answers.

Punctuation

Here you can find a document on use the use of punctuation.  Some of the rules, e.g., the use of the colon,  they present do not agree with the rules in the Interinstitutional guide.

This is a topic we did not deal with comprehensively during the course, as it is to be covered in more detail in advanced writing courses.

Present perfect vs. present pefect continuous

Here can find some exercises on present perfect and present perfect continuous.  The key to the exercises is also hereby made available.

Wishes

Here you can find examples and an exercise with the key on wishes.

Apostrophes

Here you can find a quiz on apostrophes.

Parallelism

Four documents on parallelism are available at the following links: Doc. # 1, Doc. # 2, Doc. # 3 and Doc. # 4.

Compound nouns and possessives

Here you can find some information on compound nouns and possessives with exercises, as well as the key for the exercises. I am hereby also making another document on the same topics with exercises, as well as the key for the exercises.

Dangling clauses and phrases

Here you can find the document on dangling clauses and phrases.

Subject-Verb agreement

You can find a document on subject-verb agreement with exercises here.  The key for the exercises is available here.

Another document  is hereby available. 

Semicolon, colon and lists

In Sections  2.5 - 2.10 of the English Style Guide published by the Directorate-General for Translation, you can find the rules on the use of colon and semicolon with the appropriate hyperlinks for other relevant issues, such as lists.

You can hereby find more information on the use of colon and semicolon as well as providing lists as it is presented in the Interinstitutional Style Guide.

Here you can find a document on the use of semicolon and colon, including the use of the latter to introduce lists.  The first rule on the use of colon in this document is at odds with what is said in the Commission's "English Style Guide" and  the "Interinstitutional Style Guide".

Here you can find a quiz on the use of colon and semicolon with the key and explanations.  In the explanation for the answer to question 21, you can find the capitalization rule in sentences after colon.