ESL 5
◆ ESL5 · Advanced Communication
Lessons
Your learning path
Audience, purpose, register, and reformulation
Keep the facts fixed while changing the relationship you build with the reader.
Sustained argument, evidence, and counterclaims
A defensible case survives a fair version of the strongest counterargument.
Source evaluation, misinformation, and responsible citation
Trace the claim back to the measure, not merely to the source with the most confident headline.
Inference, stance, assumptions, and rhetorical structure
Make a plausible inference—and show what would make you revise it.
Extended presentations and audience questions
Make the main message easy to follow without making the evidence simpler than it is.
Meetings, negotiation, and diplomatic disagreement
Negotiate interests and constraints rather than exchanging fixed demands.
Reports, proposals, recommendations, and executive summaries
Write so a decision-maker can see the recommendation, its reasons and its limits.
Intercultural pragmatics, humour, and repair
Check a phrase against its relationship and context before deciding what the speaker meant.
Mediation: sources, data, concepts, and viewpoints
A useful summary preserves the distinctions that make the numbers meaningful.
C1-readiness capstone
Demonstrate a profile of evidence, not a level awarded for finishing a checklist.