Expand your English vocabulary for films, television, and newspapers with this free online English course. This free online English grammar and vocabulary course teaches you about discussing the media. In this course you will learn new vocabulary and adjectives for describing television programmes, newspapers, and other types of communication tools. You will also study common expressions used by film reviewers, the passive form of English sentences, the passive reporting structures that are commonly used in English news reports, and more!
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201718 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Justify when it is necessary to use the preposition 'by' in passive sentences • State the instances in which the passive form is generally used • Review the use of passive reporting structures and how they differ to active sentences • Analyse the correct use of the passive in different tenses and forms • Review the language used for describing news and media • Summarise the language used for reviewing television series • Review the language used for describing films • Trace the most appropriate news-related idioms in a given context • Explain the differences between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers |
| Course Code | 1320 |
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