What's in this course?

Course Content

  • Unit 1: The media
  • Unit 2: Keeping
  • Unit 3: Dreams and plans
  • Unit 4: What happened?
  • Unit 5: Art and culture

    • What will I learn?

  • Understanding radio news, interviews and weather reports
  • Understanding newspaper articles and magazine articles and interviews
  • Reading notices, online entertainment guides and websites
  • Reading a historical account and an art gallery catalogue
  • Reading and writing an email
  • Reading a letter asking for advice and writing a letter giving advice
  • Reading and writing a personal narrative
  • Reading and retelling a folk tale
  • Understanding an anecdote
  • Explaining and demonstrating a practical skill
  • Understanding plans and discussions about a trip
  • Understanding, talking and writing about future plans, hopes and predictions
  • Describing changed plans
  • Asking and giving opinions
  • Describing objects
  • Describing emotions
  • Intonation in questions
  • Working with verbs and tenses: present perfect continuous, future continuous, past perfect, zero conditional, second conditional
  • Working with clauses: relative clauses, non-finite clauses, adverbial clauses of concession and manner, adverbial clauses of place
  • Direct and indirect speech and reported questions
  • Possessives
  • Forming tag questions in past tenses
  • The impersonal 'it'

    • How will I learn?

    You will learn through doing Computer Activities and you will have a teacher to help you. You can:

  • Do exercises on the computer - the computer will mark your work.

    • How long will it take?

  • About 10 hours per week for 10 weeks

    • Ideas to help you

  • You can start with any unit or any topic, but it is better to start with unit 1, topic 1, then go on to topic 2, and so on.
  • When you start a topic, do activity 1, then activity 2, then 3 and so on.
  • To go to the next activity, click on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page.
  • There are many listening activities in this course. Listen as many times as you want. Always practise saying what you hear.
  • You can print any page to help you remember.
  • You can print any page to help you do a quiz activity.
  • Always do the writing and discussion tasks. This is good practice.
  • Read what your classmates write. Write to your classmates and your teacher. This helps you learn English and enjoy your course.
  • You should learn for about ten hours each week. Try to study each day.
  • If you have to stop studying, write down the number of the activity. This will help you to find it when you want to start learning again.
  • Always ask your teacher if you have a problem or don't understand.

    • How can I go to Level 5?

  • Study all the lessons
  • Do all the exercises
  • Send your writing to your teacher
  • Do the Progress Test (print only)
  • Your teacher will tell you if you can go to Level 5

    • See Your Teacher activities

    See your teacher about how to do this activity

    These activities can be:

  • Writing activities
  • Discussions
  • Surveys
  • Group activities
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