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Everyday English Essentials: English language course for ESL
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Everyday English Essentials: English language course for ESL

Learn over 400 English phrases & become a confident English speaker. English language course ~ English listening ~ ESL
Created byNick Blake
Last updated 6/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Build confidence in your ability to express yourself in English fluently and accurately.
  • Over 400 useful English phrases and expressions and how to use them in real life.
  • Develop the essential English skills you need for real-life everyday use.
  • Learn the appropriate English expressions to use for socialising and in everyday situations.
  • Understand the English used in a wide range of everyday situations.
  • Feel better able to travel to English speaking countries, without the language barrier.
  • Improved pronunciation after listening to native speakers in both British and American English.

Course content

25 sections70 lectures4h 41m total length
  • Dialogue14:11

    These animated video dialogues of common everyday situations introduce useful expressions and language from the lesson. Learners watch the videos and fill in the gaps to complete the dialogues before checking the answers to see how they did.

  • Listen & Repeat5:02

    After listening to the useful expressions, as pronounced by native speakers, you will practice key phrases from the lesson by saying them out loud at least three times.

  • Roleplay1:53

    These animated role plays test learners' understanding of the key language from the lesson.

Requirements

  • At least a basic understanding of English to be able to understand simple everyday conversations.

Description

Do you need to communicate confidently in English in real-life situations?

Do you want to travel to English speaking countries and successfully communicate in a wide range of everyday situations?

Do you want to learn over 400 essential phrases in a fun, interactive and engaging style?

Everyday English Essentials will help you to just that! By the end of this general English course you will become more fluent, natural and confident in the situations that are essential to everyday life and reach an intermediate level of spoken English faster than you imagined.

The situations include:

  • Making small talk

  • Hosting a guest

  • Speaking on the phone

  • Ordering tickets

  • At the airport

  • At the hotel

  • Making reservations

  • Eating out

  • At the coffee shop

  • At the doctor’s

  • At the Hairdresser

  • Shopping

Each of the lessons begins with an animated dialogue of a common situation to present the key expressions you need to know. The video is shown firstly without subtitles and then played again with speech bubbles. Here you listen to the dialogues and fill in the gaps to test your understanding

To help you improve your pronunciation and intonation, there is a listen and repeat activity, featuring the accents of native English speakers from The UK and The USA.

The lessons also include a role-play section where you can test your progress by selecting the correct response from a series of on-screen options.

The course also includes: 

  • A downloadable PDF handbook to accompany you on the course

  • Transcripts for each lesson

  • A Final Quiz, to test what you have learnt.

Who this course is for:

  • Learners of English as a second language (ESL) who are at an elementary to intermediate level (A2 - B1 CEFR).
  • ESL students who want to reach an intermediate level of spoken English in the shortest time possible.