The course content addresses the following topics:
- Themes: food and cooking, family, money, weather, transport, phone language, sport, cinema, health, education, houses, work, shopping, electronic devices, appearance and personality
- Writing: linkers, linking devices and comment adverbs such as 'fortunately' and 'unfortunately' in an informal email; narratives; discursive essay; editing
- Grammar: review of modal auxiliaries: 'can', 'can't', 'have to', 'must', 'mustn't', and 'should' to express permission, probability, and obligation; modals in the past; reported speech; first, second, and zero conditionals; different uses of present simple vs present continuous tenses. present perfect simple vs past simple tenses, and present perfect simple vs present perfect continuous tenses; different uses of past verb forms: past simple, past continuous, and past perfect; active and state verbs; different uses of the tenses in passive voice; forming questions with 'like'; verbs used with '-ing' or 'to'; different uses of definite and indefinite articles; different uses of prepositions; adverbs of degree; base and strong adjectives; using suffixes to form words; identifying and using reported speech in lexical chunks; commas, full stops, question marks, capital letters, exclamation marks, hyphens, semi-colons, inverted commas, colons, and parentheses; 'who', 'that', 'which', and 'where' in relative clauses