This level is for learners who have completed the Advanced level, and it corresponds to the C1 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, learning how to write four different types of essays, 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 attitudes and feelings
- Inferring people’s reactions
- Inferring the author’s point of view and possible bias
- Inferring an author’s appeal to authority
Note-taking skills
- Taking notes with signposts
- Taking compare and contrast notes with a t-chart
- Taking notes on pros and cons
- Taking three-column notes to show time sequence
Reading sub-skills
- Using titles and headings to identify main ideas
- Recognizing persuasive language
- Creating headings based on main ideas
- Identifying referents for the pronoun it
Vocabulary
- Related to living a long life and the changes that accompany that
- Related to making a difference and voluntary work
- Related to ocean pollution
- Related to technology and social media
Grammar
- Simple past, present perfect, and present perfect continuous
- Concessions
- Subordinators and transitions
- Subordinators and prepositional phrases
Writing
- A descriptive essay
- Using figurative language
- A persuasive essay
- Writing introductions and thesis statements
- A problem-solution essay
- Writing conclusions
- A cause-and-effect essay
- Using transitions
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