English Language Intermediate Masterclass: 10 Courses in 1!

Learn to describe and compare places worldwide using grammar and intermediate adjectives, explore geographical features, give reasons for visiting, and complete a final online research project.

Compare Brazil, Lapland, and Disney World as holiday options, weighing Amazon jungle hiking and camping, skiing and snowy landscapes, and the magical, romantic experiences.

Explore travel-focused English adjectives like bustling, charming, cosmopolitan, enchanting, exotic, historic, intriguing, lively, picturesque, polluted, romantic, touristy, and vibrant, while practicing pronunciation and spaced repetition.

Explore vocabulary for geographical features and holiday activities, including beaches, deserts, jungles, lakes, mountains, temples, and city centers, plus activities like camping, hiking, sightseeing, skiing, sunbathing, and surfing.

Learn how to form comparatives and equal comparisons with more/less than, as...as, and as many as or as much as, including countable and uncountable nouns.

Learn to give reasons in English using because and since, and express preference with would prefer or would rather, using simple comparative structures.

Engage in an interactive grammar game that compares places and builds sentences using words such as exotic, intriguing, and monuments while practicing the grammar and vocabulary highlighted in the lesson.

Believe you can learn English and you will practice with confidence, imagining fluent communication with native speakers; build a vision board and daily visualization to fuel desire and sustained effort.

Explore world travel listening by comparing holiday ideas—from India's temples and the Taj Mahal to Maldives beaches and hiking—and practice deciding between sunbathing, hiking, and cultural sites.

Practice speaking about travel using comparatives and reasons for destinations. Expand vocabulary for places, adjectives, activities, and geographical features through interactive questions and extended conversation.

select two places you have never visited, research them for at least an hour, and compare them using adjectives learned in this section, noting what each place has or lacks.

Master the zero conditional for rules in sports and science, build sports and fitness vocabulary, explore energy and body use in language learning, and finish with a creative rules project.

Explores cardio for endurance as David, an MMA fighter, and Ethan, a football player, work to make weight and avoid fouls.

Build English fitness vocabulary, including cardio, diet, make weight, pull ups, pushups, squats, stretching, training, weight lifting, workout, work out, and yoga.

Build your English proficiency by practicing memorization exercises and efficient preparation techniques as part of the English language intermediate masterclass: 10 courses in 1.

Master sport-related vocabulary, including court, field and pitch, foul, goal, referee, penalty, judge, gold, silver, bronze medals, whistle, and fitness terms like dehydrated, energetic, exhausted, fit, and out of shape.

Memorize sport-related vocabulary and adjectives to boost English language skills, enabling clearer communication and confident usage in sports-related conversations.

Master the zero conditional using if or when with present simple to show real, possible outcomes now or always; as in if he scores, they win the game.

Practice zero conditional sentences through real-life scenarios, using if clauses to express present simple results, such as dehydration from not drinking water, winning a medal, or penalties in sports.

Master the grammar of too vs enough, learning how to place adjectives between not and enough and how not too exhausted can still mean you can do yoga.

Participate in a grammar game using too and enough by transforming sentences, such as too slow to play tennis into not fast enough and not tall enough to play basketball.

Move and learn by speaking aloud while you walk, use self-talk and a ball to boost brain energy and practice English phrases during exercise.

Discover how diet, hydration, and fun workouts fuel fitness as a personal trainer explains how sports boost strength and cardio, and how timing and cues frame training.

Practice English speaking with sport and fitness themes, answering aloud using the studied language about hydration, fouls, Olympic wins, and getting in shape.

Invent a new sport that includes a judge, a referee, points, and a score, and write its rules for the English language intermediate course project.

Engage with media across movies, music, TV, and news while mastering first and second conditionals, question tags, and genre vocabulary, using clips and songs to build critical thinking about media.

Watch a 1940s Superman cartoon to practice first and second conditional questions. Identify how conditional structures like 'if... will' and 'if... would' express future possibilities and hypothetical actions.

Explore common movie and television genres, including action, adventure, animated, cartoon, comedy, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, film noir, horror, musical, romance, rom com, science fiction, thriller, and western.

Explore classical, opera, electronic, jazz, pop, j-pop, k-pop, rap, hip hop, country music, and rock genres, with notes on singing and instruments, plus a listening test.

Learn essential film and media vocabulary, including actor, actress, lead and supporting roles, cinematographer, director, producer, critic, and more, such as blockbuster, box office, Oscars, premiere, series, season, and trends.

Explore how question tags attach to statements to convey tone, with positive and negative forms, and practice creating tags for topics from horror to CGI.

Learn the first and second conditionals: possibilities with if plus present simple and future simple, and hypothetical outcomes with if plus past simple and would. Review zero conditional from before.

Play a conditional sentence game to decide when to use the first conditional versus the second conditional, applying personal scenarios like watching rom coms and listening to jazz.

Use songs to learn English, boosting grammar and speaking through culture, emotion, and a practical eight-step learning process that includes listening, reading, singing, and recording.

Practice speaking through tag questions and conditional sentences, using creative prompts from famous figures and roles, and learn to identify first versus second conditional structures.

Write a movie review as a budding critic, using a recently watched film and ptf to embed conditional sentences about what you would do as the director or a character.

Master business English for the workplace by learning meeting and negotiation language, formal etiquette, and vocabulary across departments, plus practical scenarios and a playful job-game review.

A recruiter journeys through a company to locate Mr. Lee, illustrating key business skills: people skills, etiquette, communication, initiative, and punctuality.

Explore business roles and departments, from ceo and president to founder, investors, customers, and staff, then learn core departments like hr, marketing, payroll, pr, sales, and the work force.

Explore essential worker traits and negotiation vocabulary, including communication, creativity, initiative, organization, people and social skills, and work ethic, with key terms like agenda, proposal, bluff, and etiquette.

Learn polite and formal English for business meetings, including how to begin, address participants by name, ask for opinions, and handle agreement, disagreement, interruptions, and clarifications.

Learn to answer common interview questions with relevant, job-focused responses that demonstrate value, using the star method to structure problem-solving stories.

Engage in a gap fill grammar game that reinforces the course’s grammar lessons with phrases for meeting openings, polite disagreement, and clarifying meaning.

Embrace mistakes to grow toward fluent English. Learn from feedback, practice speaking more, and enjoy the process as you reduce errors over time.

Practice business listening with a simulated job interview, discussing motivation, challenges, time management improvement, development opportunities, and a typical workday of meetings, computer work, and negotiations.

Practice a speaking interview for a famous movie director's assistant in a blockbuster project, using course language to discuss yourself, problem solving, and teamwork.

Practice formal English by recording a conversation with a professional contact, asking for consent, then review and rewrite your lines to identify mistakes and improve your professional tone.

Explore hobbies and interests using English, mastering gerunds and the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Practice with a fun true/false game and expand vocabulary with terms like e-learning.

Explore hobbies in Hong Kong through photography and fashion, meet new people, and plan a real-life class in Hong Kong while engaging with online e-learning for photography.

Explore English vocabulary for hobbies using -ing forms and phrases like I like chilling, clubbing, and e-learning. Describe activities such as playing instruments, watching movies, meeting new people, and researching.

Explore English vocabulary for interests, including apps, extreme sports, fashion, makeup, meditation, personal development, photography, pick-up artist, social media, and video games.

Discover how the present perfect simple expresses past actions linked to now. Learn the structure subject + have/has + past participle and see examples with yet, already, just, and never.

Practice present perfect simple using the 'I have never / neither have I' game, dropping fingers as you say 'I have' or 'neither have I' with hamburger, drums, and Lapland.

Explore how the present perfect continuous expresses actions recently stopped, ongoing since the past, or repeated over time, with examples like 'have been/has been' and guidance on for vs since.

Master the present perfect continuous by converting sentences between since and for, using examples like I have been e-learning for two years and I have been clubbing for six hours.

Compare your English learning to a pendulum. Gravity turns potential energy into kinetic energy as you alternate between topics in your own language and in English, guided by curiosity.

Practice listening to everyday talk about hobbies, from app development and clubbing to watching English movies and workouts, with natural conversational questions and responses.

Practice speaking by answering friend-style questions about hobbies and interests, using present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses, and repeatedly expanding answers in a question-and-answer format.

Present a hobby you've pursued for at least two years, detailing why you started, mistakes, and what you’d do differently, plus an uncommitted interest you’d explore, via video or audio.

Explore social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram while learning reported speech and modal auxiliaries for offers, permission, and invitations, plus an acronym game with lol, rofl, and yolo.

An edited selfie meme goes viral on Facebook, sparking comments and acronyms, as the narrator learns the ex posted it and others copy and paste it.

Build internet vocabulary for social media by learning terms like blog, comment, forum, hashtag, home page, profile, username, web page, meme, meem, notification, password, platform, settings, screenshot, selfie, viral.

Explore computer verbs such as copy, paste, download, upload, drag, and delete; phrasal verbs like left click and sign up; and slang such as bro, lol, omg, and yolo.

Learn to use reported speech by using subject, reporting verb, and optional that, and choose between said or told, and when to add had for past tense.

Explore how modal auxiliaries like could, would, can, and may express requests, offers, invitations, and permission, with examples such as could you subscribe and would you like to log in.

Practice using modal auxiliaries to make requests, offers, invitations, and permission through a film clip speaking activity that has you voice characters and create sentences.

Install Wordology, a Firefox extension that highlights words, helps you read in a foreign language, and lets you translate them by hovering. It visualizes vocabulary progress and links to dictionaries.

Engage in a social media listening exercise to discuss travel blogs, selfies, and blog collaborations as friends share gossip and coordinate posts.

Practice English speaking by converting the instructor's sentences into indirect speech in a social media context, with five prompts and end-of-section answers for reference.

Post five comments on a social media site for language intermediate course project, using modal auxiliaries like can or could to make requests, offers, or invitations, and practice reported speech.

Learn to describe personal problems and offer advice using modal verbs, explore emotion and psychology vocabulary, and practice problem solving through goal setting, rituals, and obstacle planning.

Billy overcomes public speaking anxiety by acknowledging stress, addressing projection with a therapist and life coach, and practicing disciplined visualization and daily rituals for a confident presentation.

Explore advanced emotions and psychology vocabulary, from anxiety, depression, and grief to optimism, pessimism, realistic thinking, and neurosis, plus ego, persona, homeostasis, and projection.

Explore self-help and personal development strategies, including coaching, counseling, discipline, goal setting, and mindset, with practical techniques like routine, minimalism, motivation, and visualization.

Learn how to give advice using modal verbs, especially should and need, with phrases like I think you should, you shouldn't, and you need therapy.

Learn how suffixes -ed and -ing mark passive states versus active actions, as shown by I am depressed, I am inspired, I am coached, and I am coaching.

Explore giving advice with modal verbs such as should and shouldn't, and review present perfect continuous and present perfect while practicing question-and-answer style responses to anxiety, introversion, jealousy, and procrastination.

Discover how strong emotions enhance memory and learning by linking English vocabulary and grammar to positive feelings, and use pre-study techniques to reduce stress and boost fluency.

Discover how to handle personal problems by meditating to free the mind, practicing introspection to find solutions, and building habits and rituals that program the unconscious mind.

Practice speaking with a guided life coach approach to address anxiety meeting new people, loneliness, jealousy, and anger using language learned in this section.

Identify a personal problem, visualize the future you want, outline the bridge to your change, and craft a specific action plan with rituals and mindset to learn English.

Learn the past with history topics like the Great Depression and ancient Egypt, master past simple and past continuous tenses, and build memory skills while discussing antiques and auctions.

Explore the 1929 stock market crash known as Black Tuesday, the onset of the Great Depression, bank failures, bread lines and shantytowns, and Roosevelt's New Deal policies in the 1930s.

Explore past tense verbs, balancing regular -ed forms with irregulars like ate, became, began, and grew, while practicing pronunciation with deliberate pauses after each word.

Explore key historical terms from the Great Depression era, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal, plus currency terms like dollars, euro, renminbi, and ancient Egypt words such as pharaoh.

Learn how the past simple expresses completed past actions with examples like Roosevelt became president in 1933 and people starved, and distinguish transitive from intransitive verbs and negation with did.

Learn the past continuous tense and its use for actions happening at a past time, with when and while, and contrasts to the present continuous.

Practice past simple and past continuous through a grammar game with history examples, choosing verbs like crashed vs crashing and was having vs was growing during the Great Depression.

Learn to remember English through story-based visualization, auditory dialogue, movement, and emotion, using familiar tales like the three little pigs to practice past, present, and future tenses.

Explore how Howard Carter's discovery in the Valley of Kings led to Tutankhamun's tomb, his notes, and the debated curse of the ancient Egyptians.

Practice telling a story in the past tense using verbs learned in this section, with a time travel adventure. Research and use the vocabulary, then record and share your story.

Research a historical figure online, then write a project detailing who they were and what they achieved, using past simple and past continuous tenses, and submit for review.

Explore art through describing paintings and mastering could and could have, so and such, with a drawing activity based on the scream by Edvard Munch.

Explore how Pablo Picasso learned to paint from his father, practiced daily, and developed the blue and rose periods, cubism, surrealism, Guernica, and a giant abstract sculpture in Chicago.

Explore essential art vocabulary from abstract and classical art to cubist, expressionist, impressionist, landscape, minimalist, pop art, portrait, postmodern, still life, and surrealist styles.

Explore art related vocabulary and adjectives, brush strokes, mood, palette, and contrast from Monet to Picasso, including eye popping, garish, harmonious, intense, and vivid.

Explore the difference between so and such in English grammar, practicing usage with adjectives and nouns through clear examples like 'so abstract' and 'such an abstract painting'.

Learn to swap between so and such in English grammar, transforming sentences and mastering noun placement with examples like 'New York is so bustling' and 'these are such rich colors'.

Explain the difference between could and could have, showing past ability and unreal outcomes with examples like he could make eye-popping paintings and could have painted more vivid portraits.

Practice distinguishing could from could have in a grammar game, identifying infinitive versus past participle after could with examples about painting and famous artists.

Boost your English learning by using creativity through ideation and selection, mind maps, and brainstorming, with 40 percent brainstorming and 60 percent evaluating ideas for practicality.

Traverse an artist's shift from abstract expressionist to impressionist, celebrating subtle brushstrokes and a vaguely realistic style, while reframing art as not necessarily symbolic.

Engage in English speaking practice in this master class section by evaluating three different artworks, using adjectives, imagining what the artist could have done, and pausing to respond.

Choose an online artwork and write a critical review, describing its art form, time period, and what you or the artist could have done, using descriptive adjectives.