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Master English: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate Course for Fluency & Confidence

Introduction

Course Overview, Objectives and WELCOME (0:49)
Importance of Intermediate English Skills and Mindset

Intermediate Group Course and Live Sessions

Invitation to Intermediate Course Members to Live Sessions

💜 WEEK ONE: Intermediate Group Course Curriculum Starts here

💜 Introduction and First Steps
💜Course work-Ordering Food at a Restaurant (1:14)
💜Course content- An airport situation
💜Everyday Expressions and Slang & Colloquial (2:54)
💜Useful Phrases for Conversations (1:53)
💜Listening Activities 1-3
💜An English Learning Tip for you! (2:58)

💙WEEK TWO: Start your practice for week two

💙Listening activities 4-6
💙Listen to David Beckham (3:08)
💙Health and sickness (6:36)
💙 A quick look at SOONEST VS. CLOSEST (0:46)
💙 A quick video on real life English for natural English that you don't get in textbooks (1:14)
💙A Visit to the Doctor
💙Talking About Lifestyle Changes
💙Discussing Medical Options

💚 WEEK THREE: Start your practice for week three

💚 Pronunciation of past simple /Id/
💚 Pronunciation of past simple /d/ voiced
💚 Pronunciation of past simple /t/ unvoiced
💚Ordering Food at a Restaurant (1:14)
💚AIRPORT VOCABULARY (3:20)

💗WEEK FOUR: LAST WEEK OF Group Class

💗How to give you email effectively (12:11)
💗Listening-Catching a flight
💗Plumbing (5:12)
💗Pronunciation - Words with "ism"
💗Coffee (13:15)
💗The Importance of Having a Hobby as an Adult

My Community with my Students

My Community

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Confusing words and expressions

It's important to me. vs. It's important for me. (1:41)
Miss and lose (3:08)
Hard vs. Hardly (2:56)
Say and tell (7:44)
Specially and especially (6:38)
Have, Take, Do and Make in General English (3:58)
Each other vs. One Another (5:54)
Who vs. Whom (2:08)

LIFE SITUATIONS

Connecting with Someone About Their Culture (1:26)
Asking About a Historic Building (1:28)
Ordering Food at a Restaurant (1:14)
Giving Directions (5:47)
Conversations at the Doctor's (6:13)

Prepositions

5-Day Preposition Challenge

CONVERSATION WITH YOURSELF- FULL OF ROLE PLAYS, USEFUL EXPRESSIONS AND VOCABULARY

Cities and Their Treasures-Part 1 (9:00)
Cities and Their Treasures-Part 2 (4:18)
The Great Debate: City life vs. Country life (9:28)

The Past Simple

The Regular and Irregular (18:00)
Writing Task-Childhood memories

Verb tenses

The Conditionals- 0, 1, 2, 3 (11:36)
The Present Perfect (8:18)
Present perfect vs. Past simple (12:21)
Future continuous and perfect (2:36)
More Conditional practice 0-3 (3:55)

PHRASAL VERBS SECTION

Common phrasal verbs with take (2:17)
The many meanings of 'PICK UP' (4:51)

Grammar Practice

A few, few, a little, little (5:32)
Whoever, whatever, whenever, wherever (6:48)
Comparative and Superlative (8:01)
A closer look at some and any (14:32)
The infinitive or the gerund (7:58)
A string of adjectives (5:11)
So and Such (3:58)
Comparisons with as...as (12:37)
Likes and Dislikes (10:21)
Stop doing vs. Stop to do (2:58)
Used to (4:06)
Used to, get used to, be used to (9:24)
Bound, sure, probably (3:21)
Contrasting ideas (5:20)
Either, neither, both (3:21)
must, ought to, should, have to
Relative pronouns (5:58)
Reflexive Pronouns (2:23)

Vocabulary Expansion

Expressions for Cars and driving
Idioms regarding mindset (3:30)
Going to the movies (8:34)
The many meanings of GET (4:24)
Travel idioms (5:46)
New Year's idioms (2:58)
Health and sickness (6:36)
At the hairdresser's (5:33)
What´s the weather like? (4:33)
At the gym (6:11)
What do you do? (5:04)
Halloween (5:41)
Christmas Phrasal verbs, cooking and idioms (15:37)
Intermediate vocabulary quiz
Appearance vocabulary quiz
Word formation quiz
Plumbing (5:12)
Around the town
Banking vocabulary (10:35)
Prefixes-in, un, dis
Accessories (2:53)
AIRPORT VOCABULARY (3:20)
Personal and Professional Growth (6:07)

Conversation Skills Enhancement

How to give your email effectively (12:11)
Pronunciation practice (7:06)
Master English Pronunciation: Reductions, Vowel Sounds, and Past Simple Tips (48:30)
English Pronunciation Class (44:13)
Problematic letters in pronunciation (16:35)

PRONUNCIATION SOUNDBOARD

Practic clusters part 1
Words with two types of "C" sound. Hard /K/ and soft /s/ C.
Words with "ism"
Breath - noun /breθ/; Breathe- verb /briːð/
The "sh" sound
The dg sound /dʒ/
The y sound /’j/
Differences rate - desperate
Pronunciation of past simple /Id/
Pronunciation of past simple /d/ voiced
Pronunciation of past simple /t/ unvoiced

Intermediate grammar quizzes

nouns -verbs, question tags, general, future, let's
adjectives, past, a few-a little
bored, boring, a few, a little
Comparative - superlative

INTERMEDIATE LISTENING

Meditation camp
The Nutcracker
Catching a flight
Internet
At the gourmet shop
Widening a road
Hiking in the mountains
Valleyview SUVs
Keep your promise
Living abroad
Shipwreck 1 and 2
Left-handed
Going on a shopping spree (2:09)
Entertaining a client
Let's go to the bank
Halloween the holiday
Christmas chaos
Asking for a delivery date
Lash Room
An airport situation
Buying an airline ticket
School presentation call
Working hours protocol
The job interview
Watching a tv series
Listen to Drew Barrymore in the interview with Johnny Carson (1:11)
Lessons in Chemistry clip (1:02)

Reading practice

Lily's Life
An email about my new job
A Carpenter's Diary
The Importance of Having a Hobby as an Adult
Jake and the Messy Room Challenge

EXPERT LEVEL

Expressions with the preposition IN (15:58)
Phrasal verbs with GET (9:00)
Phrasal verbs and expressions with drink (3:01)

EXPERT GRAMMAR

Defining relative clauses (4:19)
Non-Defining Relative Clauses (8:33)
Direct and Indirect questions (8:01)
The past tenses:(simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous) (12:06)
If only and wish (6:19)
Not only, but …as well (3:20)
Question tags (5:23)
Clefts, emphasis and auxiliaries (5:28)
Gradable and non-gradable adjectives (3:58)
Inversion after negative adverbials (4:43)
Avoiding repetition in a text (9:38)
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns (4:26)
Connecting Speech (5:46)
Mixed Grammar-idioms, phrasal verbs, specially and especially
Review past, past perfect, noun-verb, responses

EXPERT VOCABULARY

Fashion idioms and practical lesson (6:49)
Travel idioms 1 and 2 (5:46)
Expressions with Penny
Idioms and expressions with money (3:36)
Crime (7:59)
Animal Idioms parts 1 and 2 (6:44)
Phrasal verbs for house rental (1:55)
Christmas idioms (3:17)
Phrasal verbs about travel (1:29)
Homographs (2:38)
Positive thinking (11:05)
Respect (6:44)
New Year's Idioms (2:58)
Motivation (10:02)
Christmas cooking (5:15)
Childhood memories (13:41)
Success (11:04)
What's the weather like - Expert (6:18)
Coffee (13:15)
Wordbuilding
Thinking and learning phrasal verb quiz and more
Watching tv
Idioms with colors quiz
Expert vocabulary quiz practice
Shopping quiz
ENCOURAGEMENT (5:38)

EXPERT LISTENING QUIZZES

Automotive buy and sell
Seed bank
An eerie night
Upsides and Downsides
Queen Elizabeth I and II
Email contact information
Zen moments
Emily’s gym
Charles Dickens
The Hidden Secret
Christmas Radio Show
Directions to an art gallery
Sorry for the inconvenience
safety measures-welcome aboard
making a change
Office vacation request
The pitch presentation
The Wimpy Kid - Hard luck (8:05)
5 ways to kill your dreams
How entrepreneurship can change your life | Bel Pesce
Try something new for 30 days - Matt Cutts
Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
Mel Robbins: 5 Second Rule
Young Sheldon clip (1:25)
The Middle clip

Expert Reading

New Management Styles Revolutionise Business Productivity
The Value of Hobbies in Childhood Development
How to Handle Complaining Customers Like a Pro

US History

The 13 Colonies (2:58)
Interesting Facts about the American Flag (5:32)
The Fourth of July (5:14)

Pickpockets and Preventing Theft

Pickpockets and Preventing Theft (5:15)

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