
Master English conversation at intermediate level guides you through a step-by-step recipe for perfect scrambled eggs, whisking eggs with cream, butter, salt and pepper, then frying and serving on toast.
This lecture explains the use of past simple and past continuous with sports examples, including when and while signals, and highlights irregular verbs and essential sports vocabulary.
Explore driving vocabulary and past tenses—past simple, past continuous, and past perfect—through time-line examples. Practice using phrasal verbs like break down, pick up, and drop off while telling driving stories.
Explore driving English through police stops, breathalyzers, and travel questions, while practicing car vocabulary, from gear stick and bonnet to manual versus automatic and essential idioms like green light.
Chapter two of scarlet letter shows Hester in prison as Chillingworth administers medicine to her and the child, binding them to keep his secret and identify who wronged them.
Master English conversation at the intermediate level covers comparatives and superlatives, including one- and two-syllable adjectives, than and as constructions, in transport contexts.
Hester Prynne, bearing the scarlet letter, supports herself as a seamstress and raises Pearl under Puritan scrutiny while Dimmesdale defends her and they keep mother and child together.
Explore modal verbs of obligation, including past forms like had to and didn't have to, and present forms like must, should, ought to, and mustn't, with rules, manners, and expectations.
Debate whether E, E and P should be mandatory or optional and compare private, state, grammar, and mixed versus single-sex schooling. Discuss age milestones, uniforms, and marks versus grades.
Explain quantifiers in science, covering countable versus uncountable nouns, and use of a lot, lots of, plenty of, a large number of, and a large amount of.
Welcome to my English course for intermediate students. This course is the 'sequel' to Master English Conversation Pre-Intermediate Level. On this course, you will learn not only the grammar but also the vocabulary that is necessary to progress to an upper-intermediate level. I am a British teacher with more than 20 years' experience, who enjoys using a variety of methods to teach students. I use a white board to explain how the grammar works, and I often use pictures to teach new vocabulary. Please speak to your monitor when you are doing this course, and your conversational skills will improve quickly.
The course includes the following:
Downloadable lectures on the most important grammar topics. (tenses, quantifiers, reporting verbs, phrasal verbs, auxiliary verbs, reported speech, modal verbs, conditionals, gerunds, infinitives, comparatives, superlatives, articles, and passive)
A range of topics that will enhance your vocabulary (cooking, sport, driving, common verb phrases, transport, health, complaints, personality, houses and property, history, education, science, cinema, work, crime, weather)
I don't speak incredibly slowly, as though you were a beginner. I understand that you need faster speech so that you can make your way to an upper-intermediate level. Please preview one of my classes, and you will understand whether this course is too basic or too advanced. I have easier courses (pre-intermediate and beginner) AND more difficult courses (advanced grammar, advanced vocab, phrasal verbs) should you need them.
Repetition of the vocabulary in different lessons and quizzes, so that the new words and phrases are easier to memorize
Quizzes after each and every lecture, and many of them include images, as I believe that pictures help you memorize both the grammar and the vocabulary.
Ask questions on the Q and A section if you need clarification, and I respond within 24 hours
Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes
New lectures uploaded every month. I will be adding an adapted version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' over the next few months, with comprehension exercises for each chapter.
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