* The course has been included in the list of reimbursable courses for CEF purposes (One of these courses can be taken in conjunction with a Focus on Listening & Speaking course at the same level in order to qualify for funding)

About This Course

Activates and extends your knowledge of English Grammar while developing your speaking, writing, listening and reading skills.

Course Aims

You will work towards the following learning outcomes:

• ask and answer personal questions
• talk about routines and habits
• tell a story
• describe future plans and intentions
• describe results of past actions
• describe regulations
• speculate, make provisional plans and hypothesise
• compare present and past
• express quantities
• describe likes, preferences, and abilities
• report speech
• describe processes
• give definitions and extra detail
• speculate about the past

Covering the following grammar points:

• question formation, negatives and short answers
• present tenses – simple and continuous
• narrative tenses
• future verb forms
• Present Perfect Simple and Continuous / Past Simple
• Modal verbs – have to, must, can, allowed to
• Modal verbs – might, could
• first and second conditionals
• used to
• quantifiers
• articles
• gerunds and infinitives
• reported speech
• the passive
• relative clauses
• third conditional

Course Content

The course book is New English File Intermediate. Your teacher will select the most relevant material from the book and supplement it to make lessons relevant and stimulating.

Demonstrating Progress

Your teacher will give you a number of assessed tasks based on the core objectives of the course. They will grade you for each task and from this, your homework and course tests, your teacher will be able to advise you about your progress and suggest a suitable course for the next semester. For semester B courses your performance and teacher’s recommendation will determine whether you move to the next level.

You receive an attendance certificate when you have completed your first term, and a report when you have completed both Term A and Term B as well as a course completion certificate if you attend at least 75% of lessons and complete assessments successfully.