Advanced

When students reach an advanced level of English, they are, by definition, successful learners and they typically feel positive about the language and their classes. However, it can be hard to make them feel they are actually making progress and improving. It is important to challenge students with material that they feel is relevant to their needs and which they can see a purpose to. They want to see and hear material from the real world, which respects their intelligence, but also need support to help them use what they know to overcome new challenges and to set realistic and positive expectations of what they can achieve.

During this course you will learn:

To adapt your spoken English to a variety of situations and registers

• Half-agreeing and politely disagreeing

• Talking about work

• Expressing ideas with precision

• Expressing a response to a creative text/literature

• Giving background details to an experience

• Discussing and interpreting information in a questionnaire

• Giving a well-structured presentation and taking questions

• Discussing behavior and issues, showing sensitivity to different perspectives

• Using persuasive language

• Exchanging complex information to solve a problem

•  Discussing contentious issues diplomatically

•  Reacting to a speaker and relating your own ideas

• Practice in recognizing and using discourse markers in speech

• Improve in accuracy as well as further development of your fluency

• Techniques and strategies for participating in a conversation

To improve your understanding through

• Exposure to longer listening activities and a wide variety of accents
• Exposure to a wide variety of authentic text types colloquial spoken language
• Achievable tasks but with an increasing level of challenge
• Identifying attitude and implied meaning
• Conveying the main ideas in a text
• Reading notes and expanding them into a spoken explanation
• Distinguishing between positive and negative effects
• Understanding a lecture or talk
• Understanding contrasting points of view, agreement / disagreement / partial agreement