General English course for upper-intermediate students
Our General English Course for Upper-Intermediate students covers:
- how to make conversation, respond sympathetically, give advice and make suggestions
- how to deal with unexpected and awkward situations face-to-face and problems on the telephone
- how to give and report opinions
- how to articulate the sounds of English clearly in connected natural speech
- how to take part in more formal interactions
- how to listen for grammatical or phonological detail
- how to use strategies to clarify and confirm understanding
- how to provide feedback and confirmation to others
- lots of new vocabulary on topics such as mysteries, the media, fame and fortune, nature, adventures and mishaps, unusual achievements
- how to understand and identify the different ways in which meaning is built up in texts
- how to understand how main points and specific detail are presented and linked
- how to use skimming, scanning and detailed reading in different ways for different purposes
- how to use implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge, together with prior experiential knowledge, to predict meaning, try out possible meanings and read and check for sense
- how to develop an increasing understanding of a range of vocabulary, using knowledge of word structure, related words, word roots and borrowings
- how to structure texts sequentially and coherently
- how to choose language suitable for purpose and audience
- how to select format and appropriate structure for different purposes
- how to write using complex sentences
- how to use sentence grammar accurately to achieve purpose
- how to proof-read for content, accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation, and expression
