This level is for learners who have completed the Pre-intermediate level, and it corresponds to the A2 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, crafting paragraphs, 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
- Inferring abstract ideas from examples
- Inferring meaning from metaphors
- Inferring judgements
- Inferring author’s attitude
Note-taking skills
- Taking notes using abbreviations and symbols
- Creating an outline to take notes
- Taking double-entry notes
- Taking notes using a mind map
Reading sub-skills
- Scanning for information
- Recognizing the use of present tense in a story about the past
- Visualizing while reading
- Identifying the purpose of quoted speech
Vocabulary
- Related to perception
- Related to hero stories
- Related to medicine (traditional and modern)
- Related to endangered and indigenous cultures
Grammar
- Linking verbs (including sense verbs)
- Time clauses in the present tense
- Adverbs of manner
- Using Will, be going to, and the present progressive to express the future
Writing
- A personal experience paragraph
- Using descriptive adjectives and sense verbs
- A one-paragraph story
- Adding explanations and examples
- A narrative paragraph
- Time order words in a narrative
- A prediction paragraph
- Concluding sentences
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