This level is for learners who have completed the Intermediate level, and it corresponds to the B1 CEFR level. Throughout this course, engaging activities and interactive material are incorporated to introduce learners to new reading and writing skills. These include, but are not limited to, strategies for addressing various types of reading questions, constructing different types of sentence structures, writing coherent and cohesive paragraphs and opinion essays, learning how to write a journalistic summary, and acquiring an expanded vocabulary alongside an understanding of some grammar rules.
By the end of this course, you will have learned the following:
Reading
- Recognizing main ideas from details through different types of questions and skills:
- Skimming for main ideas
- Scanning for details
Making different types of inferences
- Understanding assumptions
- Inferring the meaning of idioms and expressions
- Inferring degree of support
- Inferring the use of hedging
Note-taking skills
- Taking notes by marking important information
- Taking notes on main ideas with questions
- Taking notes on cause and effect with a graphic organizer
- Taking notes with outlining
Reading sub-skills
- Distinguishing voice in quotations
- Recognizing positive redundancy
- Organizing the sequence of events in a time line
- Recognizing the role of quoted speech
Vocabulary
- Related to geniuses and hardworking individuals
- Related to life obstacles
- Related to making medical decisions (conventional and unconventional medical practices)
- Related to animal intelligence (instinct and intellect)
Grammar
- Past perfect
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Past unreal conditionals
- Adjective clauses
Writing
- A summary paragraph
- Identifying and correcting sentence fragments
- A biographical paragraph
- Choosing appropriate supporting sentences
- An opinion essay
- Writing introductions and hooks
- A summary in journalistic style
- Paraphrasing
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