Course description and learning aims | Upper-Intermediate (CEFR B2)

General English – Autumn 2020

This 30 hour course focuses on improving your communication skills in English. The
materials for the course have been produced in-house by the British Council and your
teacher will provide you with the necessary materials in each lesson.
In each lesson, you will take part in speaking and writing tasks with a communicative
purpose. The grammar and vocabulary in every class will support you in completing the
communicative activities successfully. Your teacher will share links and resources to
help you practise the language points outside of the classroom too.
You will complete two assessed written tasks and you will also receive individual
assessment of your speaking skills.

The course will cover a range of topic areas including:

• News reporting, the media and magazines

• City versus Countryside | Language Learning
• Money | Mysteries and Puzzles | Anecdotes
• Crime and Punishment | Holidays | Humour
• Writing an email and structuring an essay

The grammar and vocabulary to support you in the tasks include:

• Language to show emphasis and assertiveness
• Linking words and phrases and signposting language
• Vocabulary for humour | Language for advising and making recommendations
• Language to qualify comparisons
• Conditional sentences | Narrative tenses
• Reporting verbs and reported questions
• Multi-word verbs | Modal verbs of deduction
• Vocabulary to talk about the media

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