English Language Advanced Masterclass: 10 Courses in 1!

Explore world culture and customs through a warm-up game, then compare American and British English, learn adjective and adverb placement, and master the use of 'used to'.

A pair of British travelers encounter culture shock in the USA, navigating food vocabulary (chips, crisps, French fries, tomato sauce vs ketchup), misunderstandings about chemist and drugstore, and restroom queues.

Master American versus British vocabulary with drills, learning which terms belong to the USA or the UK, such as biscuits and cookies, chemist and drugstore, fries and chips.

Master culture-related vocabulary by learning terms like acculturation, culture shock, cultural norms, stereotype, taboo, values, and globalization, and apply them to describe civilization, diversity, and multiculturalism.

Learn how to use 'used to' for past truths and habits, including its negative form, and how 'be used to' and 'get used to' express familiarity.

Practice identifying the three uses of 'used to'—past truth, familiarity, and functionality—through a five-sentence game that emphasizes context.

Master the placement of adjectives before nouns, after the noun with the be verb, or after the noun with a preposition, and place adverbs for emphasis and meaning.

Choose your English system—American or British—and learn key differences in collective nouns, spelling, and auxiliary verbs for university or television. Align your practice to the system to avoid embarrassment.

Listen to a candid reflection on stereotypes, racism, and multiculturalism from a half American, half British speaker; travel, experience, and exposure reveal the diversity of people and cultures, reducing biases.

Practice speaking by answering five questions, pausing after I ask to respond with learned language, record your answers, and submit them in the q&a for feedback and improvement.

Brainstorm your past, compare who you used to be with who you are now, then write a personal English reflection using the PTF documents and share it in the Q&A.

Explore health and medicine vocabulary, discuss conventional and alternative treatments, and master advanced questions and the passive voice to sound natural in medical discussions.

Explore common illness vocabulary and pain descriptors, including allergies, autoimmune disease, asthma, cancer, depression, eating disorders, nausea, OCD, rash, and terms for acute, chronic, contagious, and infectious conditions.

Examine conventional and alternative medicines and build essential vocabulary, including anesthetic, biopsy, capsule, eye drops, injection, ointment, pain killer, surgery, acupuncture, aroma therapy, Ayurveda, biofeedback, and placebo.

Explore advanced English question forms, including the to whom construction with prepositions, auxiliary-verb questions for suggestion and surprise, and tone-based echo questions.

Discover how the passive voice differs from the active voice, highlighting agent and subject roles with examples such as 'the question was asked to me by the doctor'.

Practice turning active sentences into passive voice through guided exercises, focusing on structures like I was given some anesthetic and biofeedback was suggested to me to reinforce passive constructions.

Explore how supplements can boost studying and mental performance, improving focus and clarity, with examples like modafinil (Provigil), Alpha Brain, ginko biloba, omega-3 oils, and vitamin D.

Identify brain fog, chronic fatigue, and mood swings, and possible autoimmune disease, and apply nutrition, hydration, biofeedback, acupuncture, and long-term mind-body practices like meditation.

Practice English speaking by role-playing a doctor-patient dialogue about health problems, pausing to ask advanced questions and give conventional or alternative recommendations while recording for feedback.

Research a medicine you don't know well, whether conventional or alternative, and explain uses, benefits, dangers, side effects, how long it has existed, and what people say about it.

Explore politics through vocabulary on political ideologies, and learn verbs related to politics while practicing future continuous, future perfect simple, and future perfect continuous tense, with a warm-up game.

In twenty years, lobbying and political maneuvering persist, but more activists and grassroots movements reshape politics, making voting easier, potentially online.

Define key political ideologies through simple, straightforward terms, including anarchism, authoritarianism, capitalism, communism, conservatism, democracy, dictatorship, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxism, nationalism, Republican, socialism.

Master politics vocabulary by exploring activist, allegations, conspiracy, propaganda, and more; analyze campaigns, elections, government structures, civic duty, and grassroots movements.

Master the future continuous tense to describe events starting before a future point and continuing after it, including will be concealing, going to be, and future simple.

Explore the future perfect simple and future perfect continuous to describe actions at a future time, using will have, will have been, and practice with handouts.

Master future tenses through practical examples, selecting future simple, future continuous, and future perfect forms to express predictions, plans, and completed actions.

Write a letter to your future self on FutureMe.org to practice English writing, choose a delivery date, read others’ letters, and reflect on future tense language points.

Nominate Miss T as the libertarian candidate for president and advocate lobbying for votes, highlighting ten years of libertarian activism. Expect voters to benefit from her actions by next year.

Engage in English speaking practice with personalized questions based on the grammar and language learned, pause to answer aloud, record and review, and submit for feedback using the answer sheet.

Create a political speech using future continuous, future perfect simple, and future perfect continuous to practice grammar, then film or record and post the written version for feedback.

Explore talking about your life from birth to death, using life-related verbs and idioms while mastering past simple, past perfect simple, and past perfect continuous.

Moving to China reshaped a writer's journey, embracing teaching English, learning the hard way, and breathing new life into lessons while engaging with children and their parents.

Master life-related vocabulary from aspire and desire to long-term goals and ambition; describe changes, transitions, turning points, memory, hindsight, and life stages from childhood to elderly, including marriage and divorce.

Explore life idioms and their usage, from back to square one to the school of hard knocks, including breathe new life into something and drop a bombshell.

Learn the past perfect simple, used for completed actions before a past point, with examples like 'had survived' and 'had aspired,' including 'had you already gotten married?'

Master the past perfect continuous by using 'had been' plus the -ing form to describe actions started before a past point, not yet finished, with duration and 'already' or 'yet'.

Engage in a grammar game that distinguishes past perfect simple from past perfect continuous through sentence jumbles and idiom usage, and reinforces past participles with practice exercises and feedback.

Start keeping an English diary to capture your inner thoughts and daily actions, boosting vocabulary use and language accuracy through honest self-expression.

Relate a career turning point sparked by an agent’s bombshell call, turning a near-miss into a lead actor role. Trace how this life-changing moment reshaped the narrator’s aspirations.

Practice speaking using the section’s grammar, pausing to answer aloud. Record your responses and write down your answers for Q&A feedback to improve.

Conduct a life interview with someone you know, then write their story in the third person using the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous, following the ptf and course grammar.

Sharpen analytical skills by describing a crime and reasoning how it was done, using crime, punishment, and investigation vocabulary, while practicing mixed tenses, third conditional, and solving riddles.

Explore an investigation tale of burglary and arson, examining premeditation, accomplice roles, fingerprints, and courtroom outcomes, with consequences and community service.

Explore crime and punishment vocabulary, including abduction, kidnapping, abuse, accomplice, arson, assault, burglary, fraud, identity fraud, murder, manslaughter, premeditated, community service, death penalty, house arrest, life sentence, prison.

Explore crime vocabulary, linking facts with connections, crime scenes, and detectives, and distinguishing evidence, eyewitness accounts, fingerprints, physical evidence, forensic terms, hearsay, dna, and suspects.

Master mixed tenses by linking past continuous, past simple, past perfect continuous, and past perfect with when, while, and as to express simultaneous or sequential actions.

Master the third conditional by describing hypothetical pasts and their probable consequences, using past perfect constructions and examples like if I had been caught, I would have been arrested.

Practice forming the third conditional to discuss past outcomes using past perfect and past participle, with examples like falling into the lake and the interview.

master the third conditional by turning everyday situations into hypothetical past outcomes, using past participles in perfect conditional forms and creating both positive and negative results.

During a political campaign, a crowd member brandishes a baseball bat and swings at others, sparking a fight as bystanders reflect that telling someone earlier could have prevented the assault.

Practice the third conditional tense with guided questions in section 5 of the advanced master class, recording your responses for self-review and improvement.

Find a mystery online, write about it using the grammar and language from this section. Explore differing theories, download the PTF attached to this lecture, and submit it for feedback.

Explore the economics of business, including marketing and sales, money vocabulary and idioms, and how to craft formal sales letters and advertisements in English.

A budget-conscious buyer faces a pressure sales pitch to dip into savings. A seller offers a money-back guarantee and the idea that you have to spend money to make money.

Master marketing and business vocabulary, including buzz words, copywriting, target market, market research, demographics, and terms like bailout, economic crisis, and on sale.

Master money vocabulary through adjectives like broke, frugal, lucrative, reckless, stingy, and thrifty, and idioms such as dip into your savings, hard up, and spend money to make money.

Learn to craft formal business letters using the PDAF handout's vocabulary and three paragraph structure, including purpose, supporting points, action requests, and proper salutations and dates.

Craft sales letters using a three-paragraph structure, hook the reader with benefits, present your product's value, show how to buy, and include contact details.

Chunk vocabulary by selecting four to six words, or up to eight, include odd ones out from different categories, and craft a story in which every word belongs.

Explore a persuasive advertising pitch that urges spending to make money, featuring a limited time offer of 100 pages of market research for $49.

Practice speaking in a meeting with a marketing manager, asking and answering questions about buzz words like lucrative and must have, market research, pricing, and competition to sharpen business communication.

Write a persuasive sales letter for something you are passionate about, identify your target demographic and market, and submit the completed letter for instructor feedback.

Explore philosophy, sociology, and law through ethics debates and legal language, practicing advanced modals and verb forms while analyzing trolley dilemmas and organ transplant scenarios.

Analyze the debate between absolutists and social-structure factors as a starving man steals bread, and a jury weighs crime against justification, ultimately acquitting him.

Explore core philosophical vocabulary, including absolutism and relativism, a priori and a posteriori, ethics and morality, ontology and pragmatism, and how skepticism and logic underpin philosophical arguments.

Learn sociology vocabulary, including causality, correlation, empirical, hypothesis, materialism, pessimism, qualitative, quantitative, social class, and social structure. Also cover legal verbs: accuse, allege, acquit, appeal, convict, interpret, plead, sue, testify.

Explore advanced modals and semi-modals, including must have, have to, must not have, needn't, and ought to, with the nuances of deduction and obligation.

Explore English verb forms, including bare and to-infinitives and -ing forms, with head versus secondary verbs, thinking versus liking verbs, and exceptions like help and dare.

Write your life philosophy to sharpen language precision and personal insight. Distill core values into clear words, connect emotion with English, and review weekly for improved writing.

Examine the debate between absolutism and relativism in ethical and legal reasoning, including opinions, crime, and punishment. Analyze how laws and societal roles shape moral judgments.

Practice English speaking with ethical questions and modal verbs, pausing to respond, while exploring what the government ought to do about UK prison overcrowding.

Select a pressing social problem in your country, research it using the attached PTF, and write your informed opinion in the language learned, then submit for feedback.

Explore literature through practical analysis of techniques and vocabulary, and master written English grammar—participial phrases and restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.

A writer in his 40s submits a parody of Jason and the Argonauts, portraying Jason as anti-hero, existential, iterating from flowery to rambling to self-aggrandizing before winning a publishing deal.

Explore key literature terms like allegory, metaphor, motif, and postmodernism, and see how they shape plot, characters, and form through examples from classics and modern works.

Explore how adjectives describe literature, including articulate, bittersweet, conversational, existential, flowery, gripping, haunting, lyrical, pompous, powerful, rambling, self-aggrandizing, and tearjerking.

Learn to identify participial phrases—past and present forms—distinguish restrictive from nonrestrictive usage, and apply punctuation to show which noun is described.

Master English grammar with relative clauses, using who, which, that, and where or when. Learn defining versus non-defining clauses and how punctuation and pronouns shape meaning.

Learn speed reading by using your forefinger to guide lines, suppress inner voice, and convert words into images, then recall scenes after each page to read faster and practice English.

Listen to a public domain Dracula excerpt presented as a female letter, download the listening file, and answer the questions. Observe the nurse's notes on Jonathan's frail recovery and ravings.

Practice speaking by describing a book you've read in English, using relative clauses and participial phrases; write it first, then record and submit transcripts.

Choose a book and highlight participial phrases and relative clauses using four colors to distinguish defining and non-defining relative clauses, and restrictive and nonrestrictive participial phrases.

Explore metor learning, or learning about learning, and key language learning vocabulary, connectors, and grammar concepts introduced in this section. Apply present practice produce and task based learning through exercises.

Explore language learning through a story of accent-based miscommunication, and use flashcards with spaced repetition to ease fear, follow the syllabus, and boost progress.

Explore essential English vocabulary concepts such as accent, collocation, colloquial language, dialect, emphasis, figurative language, intensifiers, intonation, modifiers, and syntax.

Explore teaching terms for language instruction, including accuracy, active and passive vocabulary, error correction, modeling, flash cards, free practice, spaced repetition, and approaches like task-based learning and total physical response.

Learn to use connectors to link ideas across sentences, compare and contrast thoughts, and craft clearer writing with phrases such as as a result, nevertheless, and on the other hand.

practice using connectors to join or separate two sentences, with multiple correct options, by working through examples like nevertheless, even so, in any case, and therefore.

Explore clefts and transformations in English grammar to emphasize key information mid-sentence or at the end, using it-cleft and what-cleft with examples like it was beauty that killed the beast.

Wake up and write dreams in a dream diary to learn English in the alpha state, then think in English all day.

Explore how a self-taught polyglot learns languages through free practice with diverse accents. Turn passive vocabulary into active use by reading, noting new words, and designing a student-centered syllabus.

Practice speaking by selecting two language learning methods, explaining them aloud, recording your voice, and sharing your reflections for feedback.

experiment with two language learning techniques you've never tried, document your experience in writing, and share findings with the master class to help others.