The Complete English Language Course Improve Spoken English

Explore phrasal verbs as combinations of a verb and a particle, revealing multiple context-driven meanings and the challenge of separable versus non-separable usage.

Learn ten phrasal verbs using bring: bring round/around, forward, back, over, up, down, bring in, bring out, with varied meanings and practical examples.

Explore 10 phrasal verbs built with get, including get by, get up, get down, get into, get out, get through, get over, get on, get off, and get away.

Explore English idioms: learn how expressions convey meaning beyond individual words, study themed groups of 10 common idioms, and master correct usage with exam tips.

Learn to distinguish countable and uncountable nouns, apply correct verb forms, and compare quantities using as many as, as few as, as much as, and as little as.

Define common and proper nouns and distinguish them with practical definitions and examples of people, places, things, and feelings; note proper nouns require capitalization.

Explore collective nouns and how they refer to a group acting as a single unit, not plurals, with examples like a school of fish or an orchestra.

Explore English pronouns and their roles, including definite and indefinite pronouns, plus subject, object, possessive, reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, and interrogative forms, and how to replace nouns to avoid repetition.

Unlock a simple trick to decide between I and me in sentences like my wife and I visited the neighbors, then use it to always choose the correct pronoun.

Master possessive nouns by learning ownership indication, apostrophe rules for singular and plural owners, and how to form possessives for concrete and abstract nouns, including names and titles for places.

Explore compound nouns, built from two or more words, with first and last parts revealing meaning. Learn open, closed, and hyphenated forms, plus pronunciation and plural rules.

Master the use of definite, indefinite, and zero articles in English through clear explanations and plenty of examples, showing when and why to use each in context.

Master the indefinite articles a and an by using 'an' before vowel sounds and 'a' before other singular nouns, indicating unspecific or generic references.

Learn how zero articles are used with generic plurals, uncountable nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, materials, and meals, and identify the one exception with proper nouns and specific cases.

Learn to compare adjectives for equality using the as…as structure, with both positive and negative forms, and practice turning them into questions.

Explore forming comparative adjectives for unequal comparisons, including spelling rules for short and long adjectives, irregulars like better and worse, and using more with adjectives of three or more syllables.

Learn how to form superlative adjectives for short and long words, including est endings, the y to i change, consonant doubling, most for longer forms, and common irregulars.

Explore how regular verbs form present participles, present tense, and past tenses and past participles from the base form, with examples like play and dance.

Examine irregular verbs, focusing on past tense and past participle forms, with examples like bend/bent/bent, eat/eaten, and present tense variations for third person singular.

Explore transitive and intransitive verbs, distinguishing objects of transitive verbs from the lack of objects in intransitives, and learn how passive voice applies only to transitive verbs with examples.

Explore auxiliary verbs, including be, have, and do, plus modal auxiliaries, and learn how to form passive voice, continuous and perfect aspects, with negation and questions.

Explore the full set of modal verbs, including can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, and how they express ability, possibility, obligation, permission, advice, and desires.

Explore how to form adverbs from adjectives by adding ly, and learn key exceptions such as ll endings, y endings, i/c endings, and the whole and true forms.

Explore relative adverbs—where, when, and why—to join two related sentences and replace preposition plus which for a more informal style; apply the rules for restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses.

Master forming comparative adverbs, using -er for short words, replacing y with i before er, and using more or less for longer forms; include than when comparing and implied comparands.

Learn about adverbs of place, showing how they indicate direction, distance, or position and sometimes movement, and how they differ from prepositions that require an object.

Master adverbs of time, which answer when or how long, and learn proper placement—end or start of the sentence—and distinguish for vs since for duration or point in time.

Examine adverbs of certainty to show how they express certainty, their placement after helpers or modals before the main verb, and negatives like it will definitely not rain tomorrow.

Explore adverbs of degree that express intensity and completeness and appear before the word they modify, distinguishing them from adverbs of manner.

Explore adverbs of manner, showing how actions happen; learn how to form them by adding -ly to adjectives, handle exceptions, and observe how placement can change meaning.

Learn how adverbs of opinion, also known as evaluative adverbs, express the speaker's attitude and degree of certainty, often appearing at the start of a sentence.

Learn adverbs of completeness and incompleteness, from minimally to fully, with examples like absolutely, completely, partly, and largely to sharpen emphasis and meaning.

Explore the three tenses—past, present, and future—and the four aspects—simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous. Learn their formations with positive, negative, questions, and loads of examples.

Learn the present simple tense and its uses for habits, repeated actions, unchanging situations, instructions, general truths, and fixed arrangements, with formation as subject plus conjugated verb and negation rules.

Explore present continuous, or present progressive, formation as subject plus to be plus verb ing, and how it describes actions happening now, temporary situations, future plans, annoying habits, and trends.

Explore the present perfect tense, linking past actions to the present, and learn its formation (subject plus have or has plus past participle) and uses for finished and unfinished actions.

Explore the present perfect continuous, its formation with have/has been plus verb ing, and how it emphasizes the action itself rather than the results.

Learn the past simple and its formation for completed actions, states, and feelings, with time markers like yesterday and last week, and its use in second conditional and reported speech.

Learn the past continuous tense, or past progressive, with was or were plus verb-ing, to describe unfinished past actions, story background, duration, change of mind, old habits, and reported speech.

Explore the past perfect tense: its use to show order of past events, formation (had + past participle), and examples including the third conditional and reported speech.

Compare will and going to in future simple, and master when to use each for dreams, promises, requests, definite plans, near future actions, and future predictions.

Master the future continuous, also called the future progressive, to express ongoing future actions, make predictions, and ask about future events using will be + verb-ing, with examples.

Master the future perfect tense by understanding its formation and use with time expressions, including positive, negative, and question forms, with examples like 'I will have eaten ice cream'.

Explore the future perfect continuous, its formation with will or be going to, and its use to express future duration and cause with examples.

Learn how to report what someone said using reported speech, with back-shift tense changes, pronoun adjustments, and exceptions for modal verbs and reported questions.

Discover how prepositions—tiny words linking nouns—express time, place, direction, reason, connection, device, agency, and origin, with functional grouping and adverb distinctions.

Discover how prepositions of direction express movement and location, using toward, away from, onto, into, across, through, over, along, around, up, and down, with contrasts to prepositions of place.

Master prepositions of reason, including for, because of, through, due to, on account of, by courtesy of, and thanks to, to explain why things happen and how events are caused.

Explore prepositions of connection that express possession, relationships, or accompaniment, such as with, of, to, and used to indicate belonging.

Explore prepositions of device used with technologies and machines, namely by, with, and on, with examples like travel by car or train and using a lawn mower.

Discover prepositions of agency by and with, and compare passive and active voice through examples such as the house was designed by an architect.

Learn prepositions of origin, especially from and of, to express nationality, hometown, or ethnicity and where something was designed or built, with from being more common.

Identify how a single word can act as both a preposition and an adverb. Use the object test: with an object, it's a preposition; without, it's an adverb.

Explore the five types of conditionals—zero, first, second, third, and mixed (not fourth)—through their usage, formation, tense patterns, and plenty of examples.

Learn the zero conditional by forming sentences with if plus simple present, then simple present, used for factual statements and simple instructions, with examples and punctuation tips.

Explore the second conditional: how to form it with if plus simple past, would clauses, express wishful thinking, give advice, and vary word order with clear examples.

Master the third conditional to express regret and criticism about events that couldn't be changed, using if plus past perfect to form perfect conditional or perfect continuous conditional, with examples.

Explore mixed conditionals, including unreal past and unreal present forms. Learn two main formats: if plus past perfect, then present conditional, and if plus simple past, then perfect conditional.

Learn how coordinating conjunctions—the seven fanboys (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)—join words, phrases, and clauses, with usage rules, order considerations, and examples.

Explore correlative conjunctions, their paired forms, and how to join words, phrases, and clauses, with common examples like either or, neither nor, and not only but also.

Explore how to use used to for past actions no longer true, and be used to and get used to for familiarity and adaptation, including questions, negatives, and examples.

Explore how ending punctuation shapes meaning and tone, using full stop, exclamation mark, and question mark with examples like Paul has a new job.

Learn how the full stop, or period, ends sentences, and how it is used in abbreviations, initials, decimals, and web addresses, with UK vs US spacing rules.

Master the exclamation mark to convey emotion and urgency, emphasize words, and signal sarcasm, while learning formatting rules for titles and formal writing.

Explore how commas, semicolons, colons, and ellipses convey pauses and breaks, with UK and US differences and the Oxford comma, plus common mistakes and corrections.

Master comma usage across contexts, from lists and introductions to quotes, dates, numbers, and non-restrictive clauses, with UK and US differences clarified.

Examine the Oxford comma, a serial comma placed before the final item in a list, and compare its effects in UK and US English through examples.

Learn to use a semicolon to clarify lists and connect related clauses. Apply semicolons to list instructions and to form compound sentences for clearer meaning.

Learn how to use colons to introduce lists and relate clauses, show time and proportions, punctuate emails and dialogue, and handle capitalization after colons.

Learn when not to use a colon and how to correct errors, including misplacing colons after prepositions and verbs, and restructure sentences to place colons correctly.

Learn what a comma splice is and why it creates run on sentences. Discover fixes using semicolons, full stops, coordinating conjunctions, or turning a clause into a dependent clause.

Learn how the ellipsis, formed by three dots, signals pause and suspense in writing. See how ellipses shorten sentences by replacing details and how spacing around them affects meaning.

Explore hyphens, dashes, slashes, and apostrophes to split or join ideas, with practical usage, clear examples, and a question-and-answer session for any questions.

Learn to use hyphens to join words, form double barreled surnames, split words over two lines, create compound adjectives, and indicate ranges in numbers with no spaces around the hyphen.

Explore how the dash replaces brackets, commas, and colons to achieve informal writing. Compare UK and US spacing and distinguish a dash from a hyphen for clarity.

Explains how the slash symbol is used in writing, replacing 'or' and 'per', marking dates, fractions, data ranges, abbreviations, care of, 24/7, and poetry line breaks.

Master the use of quotation marks to reproduce exact speech, cover capitalization and punctuation, and navigate UK vs US differences, nesting, titles, and short forms such as feet and inches.

Explore a potpourri of signs, symbols, and marks used in writing beyond strict punctuation, and learn how adding, removing, or moving punctuation can alter meaning.

Explore the ampersand’s origin, its roles in company names, logos, and academic citations, and guidelines for spacing and formal writing.

Explore the asterisk's uses as footnotes, masking vulgarity, and text corrections, while showing emotions in fiction and clarifying pronunciation; apply to ads and footnotes in writing.

Explore the at sign, its origin as 'each at' for unit price, its use in email addresses and ASCII art, and why it should stay out of formal writing.

Identify the hash sign and its names—hash sign, pound key, no sign, and hashtag. Explore its uses for numbers, currency and weight, and its social media rise since 2007.

Explore how English vowels differ from their spellings, including silent vowels, schwa sounds, and irregular pronunciations, and how native speakers simplify or ignore letters in everyday words.

Explore how stress and intonation shape the rhythm and melody of English, guiding which syllables to emphasize and how pitch rises and falls to sound natural, confident, and clear.

Explore the o-u-g-h pronunciation variants in English and learn how one spelling represents many sounds. Recognize patterns, study word groups, and understand that English spelling preserves history over pronunciation.

Explore how to say numbers across contexts, including years, phone numbers, decimals, currencies, and fractions, using context-driven rules and zero variants like zero, nought, nil, and love.

Master the verb to be in the simple present with examples: I am, you are, he is, we are, they are, it is, Peter, Lisa.

Learn to count in English from one to ten and get a good start with basic numbers.

Learn how to form singular and plural nouns with examples like one dog, two dogs, one beach, two beaches, and endings in s, x, z, f, fe, and y.

Explore the verb to have in the simple present, with examples using he has, we have, you have, and I have an apple, to strengthen spoken English.

Practice counting from eleven to twenty to improve accuracy and speed, reinforcing number recognition and familiar rhythm with repeated sequences.

Learn the days of the week from Monday through Sunday, with emphasis on the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, and practice correct usage for spoken English.

Practice pronouncing numbers from twenty-one to one thousand, with focused drills on twenty-one to thirty, thirty to one hundred, and one hundred to one thousand, using repeated examples.

Learn to tell time with the big hand and little hand, 60 minutes, 12 hours per cycle, using o'clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to, and digital displays.

Explore the simple present tense with regular verbs illustrated by walk, go, and fly, including forms for he, she, it and you, we, they. Use for truths and permanent situations.

Learn to form negative sentences in the simple present, covering to be, do, and have, with am not, is not, are not, and does not.

Apply punctuation, grammar, idioms, and phrasal verbs to speak more effectively and share your English knowledge through all your spoken communication.

Master public speaking with quick wins: use a single large-font cheat sheet, place notes around the room, and practice on your phone to build confidence and engage your audience.

Focus on the core content in about 90 minutes to learn efficiently. Navigate the curriculum, explore specialized courses and FAQs, and ask questions for tailored, daily new videos.

Address one audience member for a few seconds to boost confidence and engagement, avoiding notes and the windshield wiper habit. Start with a quick hand gesture to ease nerves.

Practice talking about anything and record yourself, then watch the video and note what you like or dislike. The key to great speaking is your willingness to practice on video.

Identify the one thing you want your audience to do after your speech, and start from that goal to prioritize impact and clear communication over gathering data.

Brainstorm important messages, isolate one idea at a time, and prioritize the top five to seven for your audience, mastering concise, audience-focused public speaking.

Learn to distill your message into five compelling statements, say them aloud, record your delivery, and sharpen clarity for a strong opening and call to action.

learn how great speakers differentiate themselves by illustrating points with stories, using setting, characters, dialogue, emotion, and resolution; keep true experiences to engage the audience and avoid data dumps.

Select one message from your presentation and craft a story that brings it alive. Practice on video, upload to YouTube or Facebook, and post for critique to maximize course benefit.

Use visual aids and props to make ideas memorable, as the envelope demonstration shows. Build a public speaking toolkit with online trainings, videos, rehearsals, and daily follow-ups to resonate.

Outline five messages with a story for each point, record your presentation on video, rate yourself with a checklist, and improve one focus at a time to elevate public speaking.

After a talk to more than ten people, test your speaking and gather free market research by asking what they remember and what stood out.

Speak more often to build confidence and improve delivery through daily practice and real-world opportunities. Use social media, a course, or live speaking to create a steady cycle of improvement.

Use a single large font cheat sheet with bullet points, outline an hour, hit the B key to blackout slides, and practice on your phone to reduce filler words.

Learn to manage nerves in public speaking for beginners by projecting comfort, confidence, and relaxation so the audience perceives you as in control.

Clarify the desired audience action before preparing a talk by drafting a single sentence that states what you want them to do, then tailor your presentation to that goal.

Identify what motivates your audience and distill your message to the top five ideas. Prioritize those ideas, use bullet points, and avoid data dumps to engage effectively.

Constant feedback drives improvement in speaking at any level, with practice in front of others, honest messages, and focus on what the audience remembers to act on.

Master the easiest public speaking technique by using personal stories to illustrate each message, engage nerves, and turn real conversations into memorable, authentic delivery.

Learn to simplify public speaking by using one image per slide to convey one idea, helping your audience instantly understand and remember your message, even without PowerPoint.

Practice your presentation with one or two colleagues to test what they remember about your key messages and images, then retool until the audience recalls them.

Master a prioritized approach to public speaking nerves: watch yourself on video, practice in real rooms, seek audience feedback, and focus on helping listeners remember your message.