Lectures for schools: the collection

Aims and means

• Lectures by Jeanette Sakel (originally created for her undergraduates at the University of the West of England):
  • Prescriptive and descriptive linguistics (6 minutes)
  • The analysis of complex sentences (13 minutes)
  • Tense and aspect (4 minutes)
  • What is agreement (in grammar)? (4 minutes)
  • Adjectives (3 minutes)
  • Word classes (open and closed classes) (4.5 minutes)
• A TEDx lecture by Lynne Murphy:
  • American and British politeness (15 minutes)
• A collection of lectures about English grammar and grammar teaching from Englicious, at UCL’s Survey of English Usage
• Lectures specially recorded by Professor Susan Hunston:
  • Nouns and verbs: how to tell them apart
  • Nouns and verbs in literature