Skills Levels

This level is for learners who have completed the Elementary level, and it corresponds to the A1 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 sentences and 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 - Scanning ○ Making different types of inferences: - Inferring author’s opinion - Inferring connections between statements and examples - Inferring future situations - Inferring author’s attitude (beliefs) ○ Note-taking skills: - Taking margin notes on main ideas - Listing details in notes - Taking notes using a timeline - Taking notes using an organisational chart ○ Reading sub-skills: - Predicting content from visuals - Recognizing the meaning of we, us, and our in reading texts - Identifying the sequence of events - Identifying the main elements in a story ● Vocabulary: ○ Related to finding ideal jobs ○ Related to creative thinking ○ Related to making money ○ Related to rules and etiquette ● Grammar ○ Descriptive and possessive adjectives ○ Simple past ○ Comparative adjectives ○ Imperative sentences ● Writing ○ A descriptive paragraph: - Adding supporting sentences ○ A complete paragraph: - Using visuals to support writing ○ A well-organised paragraph: - Giving explanations ○ A blog post: - Using parallel structure

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

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

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