Professional English Practice · Book 4 · CEFR C2
English Communication for Professionals
Twenty-two units move from aspect and formal conditionals through modality, marked word order, cohesion, and reporting, ending in the competence that defines the level: saying the same thing three different ways, on purpose, for three different audiences.
C2 is the C1 canon revisited for nuance: reformulation, marked structure, irony and understatement, the exact shade of a near-synonym. This book is about saying the same thing three ways and choosing the one the moment needs.
- Reformulate the same idea three ways
- Use inversion and clefts for rhetorical effect
- Say less to mean more: irony, litotes, understatement
- Choose the word with the exact weight