This course aims at the intensive completion of the B1 & B2 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The course includes reading, writing, listening and speaking components, drawing on new trends in educational technology and language teaching.
At this level, students are typically expected to be able to:
• understand the main ideas as well as specific details of complex written and spoken texts on both concrete and abstract topics related to everyday life or the professional environment,
• interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native and non-native speakers quite possible without strain for either party,
• engage in conversation on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g., family, hobbies, work, current events)
• describe experiences, events, and ambitions, and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
• write personal and formal texts such as emails, reports, essays, or reviews, expressing their ideas clearly and coherently, and presenting the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
This course provides practice in vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• The reading component typically consists of adapted and authentic texts as included in the selected textbooks used or in the additional teaching material designed by the Academic Team specially for the needs of the course. Some of the topics covered include extreme people, places, activities and sports; mysterious events and places; education; healthcare and fitness; art and entertainment; science, technology and medicine.
• The listening component typically consists of listening to monologues, dialogues, everyday interpersonal conversations, functional language in use, phone conversations, interviews, and excerpts from radio/TV shows on a range of topics such as decision-making, future plans, etc.
• The writing component typically consists of writing personal and formal emails to ask for/give information or express opinions, as well as writing stories, descriptive texts, reports, essays (opinion/for-and-against/suggestions), and reviews, etc.
• The speaking component typically consists of pronunciation and intonation practice, describing experiences and preferences, comparing images, expressing personal opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, making complaints and suggestions, giving short presentations, and participating in discussions on familiar or general-interest topics, etc.
• The grammar component typically includes the complete verb system (active and passive voice), gerunds and infinitives, comparatives of adjectives/adverbs, modal verbs, conditionals, relative clauses, prepositions, and inversion, etc.
• The vocabulary component typically consists of collocations, connotations, synonyms-antonyms, word formation, prefixes and suffixes, prepositions, phrasal verbs, homonyms, idioms, and more advanced vocabulary associated with the topics under discussion, etc.
- Remedial Lessons
- Support Lessons
- Discount for Speaking classes
- Workshops
Weekly Schedule
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The ECPE constitutes an official certification of knowledge of the English language at C2 level.