General English (Pre-Intermediate)

Objectives:

• Improve speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills
• Learn to communicate in various situations
• Discuss a range of familiar topics
• Use appropriate language in familiar situations
• Talk about future plans
• Understand a range of simple statements and answer simple questions
• Attempt to use grammar accurately

Structure:  We will help you reach the course objectives through the introduction and practice of the following language points:

• frequency adverbs and expressions;
• review of elementary verb forms and questions;
• have to/had to;
• irregular verbs;
• present continuous vs. present simple;
• past continuous vs. past simple;
• activity and state verbs;
• present perfect for life experiences;
• present perfect for unfinished past with for, since, how long, should/shouldn’t, must;
• present perfect for giving news with just, yet, and already;
• questions with ever;
• -ed and –ing adjectives;
• past participles;
• past simple passive;
• used to;
• articles;
• relative clauses with who, which, that and where;
• echo questions;
• sentence stress and rhythm;
• linking words;
• phonetic symbols;
• have got;
• word building: noun endings;
• verb-noun collocations;
• will for prediction, might, will be able to, be going to
• comparatives and superlatives;
• verbs and prepositions;
• prefixes and opposites of adjectives;
• present continuous for future arrangements;
• quantifiers;
• possessive pronouns;
• literal and idiomatic phrasal verbs;
• 1st 2nd and conditional;
• future time clauses with when, as soon as, before, after, until, too, too much/too many, and (not) enough;
• present simple passive;
• adverbs;
• much/many, some/any, a few/a little, something/someone/somewhere;
• pronounce English sounds correctly;
• relevant vocabulary;
• correct pronunciation of vocabulary;
• use of correct grammatical structures;