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Effective and Powerful English with Confidence
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Effective and Powerful English with Confidence

Foundations of English
Last updated 9/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • How to communicate in Effective and Powerful English with Confidence
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section17 lectures4h 1m total length
  • Introduction6:05

    Develop confident English communication by strengthening grammar and vocabulary across writing, speaking, reading, and listening, and build a personal portfolio in a notebook with logs and regular practice.

  • English 211:28

    Explore the ancient roots of the English alphabet tracing hieroglyphs to Phoenician, Greek, and Latin scripts, and see how lowercase forms emerged under Charlemagne.

  • English 318:29

    Explore syllables, morphemes, phonemes, and affixes, and examine roots and cognates in English words. Learn how Latin, Greek, and Germanic origins shape the eight parts of speech.

  • English 48:54

    learn to identify subject and predicate phrases and practice building sentences using five phrase types—noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and prepositional—while mastering declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentence forms.

  • English 534:35

    Master the various noun types, including common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective, countable, and uncountable, and learn how possessive forms and usage as subject or object convey meaning.

  • English 69:01

    Explore English articles and nouns, including definite 'the', indefinite 'a/an', and zero article, with determiner functions and noun phrases, along with rules on consonant and vowel sounds.

  • English 721:47

    Master the use of pronouns across subject, object, possessive, and other categories (interrogative, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, and reflexive) through clear explanations. Apply the lessons with engaging exercises and examples.

  • English 835:25

    Master English verbs by exploring action and state of being, transitive and intransitive forms, and time and aspect. Learn regular and irregular verbs, auxiliaries, and verb tense structures.

  • English 919:10

    Explore descriptive, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, and other adjectives, including compound adjectives, order of adjectives, and quantitative forms, and practice enriching paragraphs by manipulating adjectives.

  • English 1014:57

    Examine adverbs that modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, including -ly forms and irregulars, covering time, place, manner, degree, and frequency.

  • English 118:33

    Explore prepositions of time and place, movement, and agents and instrument. Apply in, on, at and related phrases with quick exercises to sharpen usage.

  • English 1210:54

    Master coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions and their use with relative pronouns to connect ideas across sentences, phrases, and essays.

  • English 136:16

    Explore interjections as words that express spontaneous emotion, with examples like wow, oh no, ouch, and eek. Identify three meaning types: emotive, cognitive, and volunteer interjections—and their imperative function.

  • English 149:44

    Boost reading comprehension by engaging with graphics that echo and amplify verbal concepts, while reading increasingly challenging paragraphs, enunciating every word, pausing to read, reflect, and answer.

  • English 158:24

    Master common English idioms and formulaic language, with time idioms and examples to boost confidence and communication.

  • English 168:33

    Engage in a pronunciation exercise with reading along, word lists, and recording yourself to improve enunciation.

  • Course Catalog9:23

Requirements

  • There are no course requirements or prerequisites.

Description

This course is designed to help you write, speak, listen and read English with Confidence. Knowledge equals confidence. The course makes extensive use of graphics to illustrate the concepts covered in each lesson and to develop vocabulary in English without the need of long explanations. This is an applied course. You will be asked to write in a notebook. At the end of the course you will have a portfolio including your projects on each subject. You can use this course to write assignments, projects for work, text messages, write an essay or a story, or any other context in which you would like to write better and with more confidence. Welcome! I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who whishes to improve and develop their ability to communicate in English.