
Gain confidence in using cleft sentences, passive reporting structures, and ellipsis to create impactful, cohesive, and authoritative communication.
Use a wide range of conditional forms, gerunds, and infinitives to discuss future scenarios, urban planning, and strategies for societal improvement.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of technological advancements, urban development, and global change, using advanced language for speculation and emphasis.
Develop skills to write formal proposals, discussion essays, and authoritative articles, using linking words, passive structures, and adverbs of focus to captivate and inform your audience.
All courses operate on CET (Central European Time). Times are converted to your local time, but please be aware that time shifts in your region or CET during the Bootcamp may cause your session time to adjust. For example, a class starting at 6 a.m. could move to 7 a.m. if daylight saving time changes occur.
Unit 63 - Looking ahead
Lesson 1 - Review and expand understanding of language used for speculation and deduction.
At the end of the lesson, students can use language for speculation and deduction with greater confidence, in the context of changes ahead in the next decade.
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Unit 63 - Looking ahead
Lesson 2 - Learn cleft sentences for emphasizing information.
At the end of the lesson, students can use basic cleft sentences to emphasize information. Students can use cleft sentences in a discussion about technology and nature to make a point.
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Unit 63 - Looking ahead
Lesson 3 - Learn to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of new technology.
At the end of the lesson, students can have a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of new technology and food.
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Unit 63 - Looking ahead
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a short proposal, using adverbs of focus and a variety of linking words.
At the end of the lesson, students can organize and write a short proposal for a training session for a software or tool.
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Unit 64 - Will you live to a hundred?
Lesson 1 - Learn various uses of gerunds and infinitives.
At the end of the lesson, students can use gerunds and infinitives with greater ease.
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Unit 64 - Will you live to a hundred?
Lesson 2 - Review conditional forms, including zero, first, second, third, and mixed.
At the end of the lesson, students can use an array of conditional forms with greater ease, in the context of extending lifespan and longevity.
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Unit 64 - Will you live to a hundred?
Lesson 3 - Learn conditional conjunctions. Explore new ways of expressing conditional situations.
At the end of the lesson, students can use a variety of conditional conjunctions to talk about problems and conditions that have to be met to reach a solution.
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Unit 64 - Will you live to a hundred?
Lesson 4 - Learn to organize and write an information article, being mindful of intended audience, level of formality, and point of view.
At the end of the lesson, students can write information about a topic related change and the future.
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Unit 65 - Urban landscapes
Lesson 1 - Learn reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
At the end of the lesson, students can use reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in the context of talking about improvements to their community.
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Unit 65 - Urban landscapes
Lesson 2 - Learn to use ellipsis and substitution to avoid repetition.
At the end of the lesson, students can use ellipsis and substitution to express ideas cohesively, in the context of talking about architecture.
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Unit 65 - Urban landscapes
Lesson 3 - Learn language to talk about urban planning.
At the end of the lesson, students can effectively express their point of view on building an innovation hub to replace an old factory.
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Unit 65 - Urban landscapes
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a discussion essay, using linking words to introduce reasons and results.
At the end of the lesson, students can write a discussion essay about how a negative situation turned around by implementing change.
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Unit 66 - Making this world better
Lesson 1 - Review and learn second and third conditional for regrets. Learn If only and wish for unrealistic expectations. Learn to express criticism and annoyance with wish.
At the end of the lesson, students can confidently talk about regrets and express self-criticism. Students can voice desire for change in the present and future with wish and if only. Students can apply a different use of wish for annoyance about people doing something they don't like or agree with.
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Unit 66 - Making this world better
Lesson 2 - Learn structures for passive reporting for a variety of tenses. Learn Wh- clauses at the front of a sentence.
At the end of the lesson, students can use passive reporting structures in context of academic and other formal writing.
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Unit 66 - Making this world better
Lesson 3 - Expand understanding and use of passive reporting structures.
At the end of the lesson, students still can use passive reporting structures in speech and writing to sound like an authority.
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Unit 66 - Making this world better
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a formal article using passive reporting structures.
At the end of the lesson, students can organize write a formal and objective article using passive reporting structures.
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