“I don’t know what I am doing wrong.” “Real-life English isn’t like my language classes at school.” “I keep making mistakes.” “I can’t understand people.” “I thought I had mastered the basics, but there’s always more to learn.”

For over 20 years as an English teacher, I have heard these same questions from students over and over again.

As a University Senior Lecturer in General English, Academic English and Business English, I have been able to create courses to help degree students who had paid tens of thousands of pounds, dollars or euros for the services of my lecturing team.

However, this could only serve the wealthiest 1% of the world. What about the other 99% who could not afford a university education? They had the same questions, but didn’t have the money to pay for a qualified, experienced expert to give them the answers they desperately needed.

Thankfully, this is no longer the case.

Through Udemy, I can now offer university standard teaching on advanced grammar points to everyone, including you, for just the price of a few cups of coffee.

This course is especially designed for students who have reached a high level of English but find they are still making mistakes. I have compiled this course using my experience of teaching thousands of advanced English learners and the errors they make that prevent them from speaking or writing like a native English user.

The topics of the course will look familiar to a long-term learner of English. However, each lesson goes far deeper than a standard coursebook, examining issues that tend to cause difficulties for learners within some of the most common grammatical areas.

If you are an advanced learner, this course will be useful for "filling in" the gaps in your knowledge; you will know some of the points, but it is likely that you will quickly encounter new points, or language issues that you are less confident in and need to check what you believe is correct.

I am one of the most experienced and qualified English teachers on Udemy. I have taught English to degree, MAand PhDstudents for more than a decade, and my qualifications include an MA in Applied Linguistics and TEFL (Distinction). Ihave also led large lecturing teams, overseen the development of IELTS-equivalent university entrance tests, and have been a Trinity teacher trainer for new English language instructors.

The course will teach you over 100 grammar points, and, in particular, contains 50 key grammar rules that speakers should not make mistakes with if they wish to reach a native level of English.

You will benefit from this course by:

• Learning how to avoid errors with words and phrases at a higher level

• Developing more effective and accurate use of modal verbs

• Mastering complex choices between tenses

• Building expertise in how to use articles

• Growing in advanced knowledge of how to use many other grammatical features, such as issues with the passive form, advanced English phrases, inversion and cleft sentences

Included in the course are:

• Short lectures looking at language points in detail

• Practice tasks on each grammar point covered

• The 50 key grammar rules in PDFform (included in "Resources"after the "Introduction" video)

• Afinal test on the 50 key grammar rules

• PDFs summarising all video lessons and tasks, with additional exercises

Because this is a course for intermediate and advanced learners of English, I go straight to the points which I have found to cause advanced learners most difficulties, without spending undue time on less demanding points.

So, this course will be ideal for you if you are:

• A top advanced learner (e.g. C2 or IELTS 8.0+) who wants to check their knowledge of complex grammar points

• A learner on the journey from being intermediate to advanced (B2-C1 or IELTS 6.0-7.5), who wishes to progress to a higher level of English

• An English Language teacher who is starting out, and wants to grow in confidence in their teaching of the hardest grammatical structures

At an advanced level, learning needs differ from student to student. That is why I will be adding new videos regularly, based upon the mostly common requested topics. So, if there is a grammar point you would like to see added to the course, let me know in the questions and answers section (only available to students who sign up for the course).