The course content addresses the following topics:
- The writing process (planning, crafting, drafting, editing, revising, proofreading)
- Editing and proofreading a text for sentence structure, paragraph structure, organisation of information, word choice, punctuation, spelling, word forms, number, register, verb tenses and states, modal verbs, imperative mood, and subject-verb agreement/concord
- Organisation of general, descriptive, example, process, opinion, narrative paragraphs
- Punctuation and parts of speech/word class and their forms and number for adjective form
- Articles for plural count nouns and singular mass nouns
- Reading and listening for understanding, main ideas, supporting information, and detail
- Speaking with fluency, coherence, grammatical range and accuracy, appropriate vocabulary use, and pronunciation
- Vocabulary: phrasal verbs, preposition collocations, formal and informal register
- Active/dynamic and state/stative verbs, imperative verbs and modal verbs of probability in the present and past
- Past perfect and past perfect continuous tense in the present simple, past simple, and future simple tense
- Future aspect of tenses in the active voice: future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous
- Subject-verb agreement/concord for compound subjects, indefinite nouns, collective nouns, and interrupters