Upper-Intermediate

Upper-intermediate students rightly perceive themselves as advanced English learners, poised to transition into proficient language users. To accomplish this, they seek engaging materials and challenging tasks that propel them forward. Clear objectives are essential for them to channel their efforts toward elevating their skills and grappling with more intricate language nuances. Additionally, maintaining an atmosphere of enjoyment and dynamism, akin to their experiences at lower levels, remains paramount. Higher-level lessons should not succumb to dryness or excessive seriousness; students still crave the interactive and lively aspects of their English classes. Pedagogically valuable elements such as role-plays, language games, challenges, and quizzes retain their significance and can be even more effectively integrated at this advanced level.

During this level, you will:

Improve your speaking through up-to-date, stimulating topics to talk and exchange opinions about

• politely refusing to answer a question, reacting to what someone says

•  reacting to a story about something strange

•  flight stories, telling an anecdote understanding formal language in announcement.

•  managing discussions, politely disagreeing

• ways of talking about feelings, wishes, the environment, risk-taking, emergencies, sleep, music, crime, media, reading habits, and cities

• talking about future possibilities

Improve your understanding through

• engaging topics and stimulating material

• exposure to a wide variety of authentic text types and colloquial spoken language

• exposure to longer listening audios and a wide variety of accents

Achievable tasks but with an increasing level of challenge, such as

• Using a diagram to understand a text

• Using your knowledge of the world to help you understand formal advice

• Understanding facts vs theories

• Identifying solutions to problems

• Understanding the language of speculation public speaking

• Understanding a discussion – opinions, explanations, examples

• Identifying advantages and disadvantages