Our General English Courses for Intermediate students covers:
- how to make suggestions, offers and polite requests, express opinions, agree and disagree
- how to make predictions, discuss obligations, permission and dilemmas
- how to book a flight, show interest, make social arrangements
- how to use formal language and register when appropriate
- how to make arrangements
- how to use formal and informal English in appropriate settings, including over the phone
- how to use stress and intonation to make meaning clear
- how to take appropriate turns in conversation
- how to recognize context and predict meaning in a range of listening texts
- how to listen for relevant and new information on radio, TV or in live presentations
- how to listen and respond appropriately to others’ points of view
- how to follow a discussion actively
- vocabulary on topics such as leisure, art, work, life events, literature, society and the weather
- grammar, including modal verbs, conditionals, relative clauses, quantifiers, phrases for comparing, reported speech
- how to trace and understand the main events of chronological, continuous descriptive texts
- how to recognize the key organizational features of instructional texts how to extract the main points and ideas, and predict words from context
- how to use knowledge of syntax and grammar to work out meaning and confirm understanding
- reading strategies to help read and understand an increasing range of unfamiliar words
- how to plan an essay
- how to structure paragraphs
- how to make appropriate use of discourse markers and conjunctions
- how to write a letter of application, role-play an interview, write a biography, produce a curriculum vitae, write a book or film review
- how to complete forms with complex features
- how to apply knowledge of spelling to a wide range of common words and special-interest vocabulary
- how to proof-read for content and expression
