Our intensive Academic English course has a structure based on classes taught via our platform, as well as learning resources uploaded to the pupils’ area on our website for use in class or for homework.  Students will follow the Cambridge English Assessment syllabus for their respective level, using official exam material and complementary resources to support their study and help them focus on specific areas.  They will then have achieved the desired level and be ready to take their particular exam at the end of course period.

Students will take a level test at the beginning of the course to put them into the correct group, plus at the end of the course to assess their progress.

VOCABULARY:

• House & home
• Free time
• Phrasal verbs
• Hobbies
• Holiday activities
• Buildings and places
• Personal feelings, opinions & experiences
• Relations with others
• Adjectives with -ed and -ing
• Adjectives of emotion & their opposites
• Entertainment
• Going out
• Been/gone, meet, get to know, know, find out
• Weather
• Transport
• Adverbs of degree
• Compound words
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Health & exercise
• Illnesses & accidents
• Food & drink
• Shops & services
• The natural world
• The environment

GRAMMAR:

• Prepositions of movement, place & time
• Frequency adverbs
• Present simple & present continuous
• State verbs
• Countable/uncountable nouns
• A few/few/a little/many/much/a lot of /lots of
• Too/enough
• Question forms
• Past simple & past continuous
• Used to
• Verbs followed by to or -ing
• Comparative & superlative adjectives
• Gradable & non-gradable adjectives
• Modal verbs for ability & possibility
• Modal verbs for obligation & prohibition
• Present perfect vs. past simple
• Yet/already/just
• For/since
• The future: will/going to/present continuous/present simple
• Zero, first and second conditionals
• When/if/unless + present, future
• So do I/neither do I
• Defining & non-defining clauses
• Past perfect simple
• Commands & reported commands
• To have something done
• The passive: present & past simple
• Comparative & superlative adverbs
• Reported speech
• Reported & indirect questions

VOCABULARY:

• Leisure
• Holidays
• Food
• Education
• The environment
• Jobs
• Sport
• Entertainment
• Happiness
• Money
• Health
• The animal world
• Housing
• Festivals
• Technology
• Phrasal verbs
• Collocations

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Present simple & continuous
• Present perfect simple & continuous
• Asking questions
• Adjectives with -ed & -ing
• Comparison of adjectives & adverbs
• Past simple, past continuous & used to
• Past perfect simple & continuous
• So/such
• Too/enough
• Zero, first, second & third conditionals
• Indirect questions
• Ways of expressing the future
• Countable/uncountable nouns
• Articles
• Infinitive/verb + -ing
• Reported speech
• Linking words for contrast
• Modal verbs to express certainty & possibility
• Modal verbs expressing ability
• As/like
• Look, seem, appear
• Relative pronouns & relative clauses
• Wish, if only, hope
• Causative have
• Expressing obligation & permission
• The passive
• The passive with reporting verbs
• Linking words: when, if, in case, even if, even though, whether

VOCABULARY:

• Cities
• Personal history
• The arts
• Migrations
• Extreme sports / risk-taking
• Gender issues
• Education
• Health
• Transport & journeys
• Moods & attitudes
• Fame & fortune
• Relationships
• Holidays
• Exercise
• Media
• The world of work
• Economics & business
• The living world
• Personal contact
• The environment
• Science & technology
• Phrasal verbs
• Collocations
• Fixed phrases & idioms

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Simple & continuous tenses
• Perfect tenses
• Modal verbs to express ability, possibility, conclusions, willingness, habitual events, necessity, deduction, obligation & no obligation
• Complex modal forms, dare & need, had better, be allowed to, be supposed to & other verbs with modal meanings
• Compound nouns & noun phrases
• Subject-verb agreement
• Countable & uncountable nouns
• Articles
• Determiners & quantifiers
• Verb + to-infinitive/-ing & other verb patterns
• Defining & non-defining relative clauses & relative pronouns
• Participle clauses & other types of relative clauses
• Adverbial clauses
• Real & unreal conditionals, if only/wish and other conditional expressions
• Participle, to-infinitive & reduced clauses
• Noun clauses
• Conjunctions & connectors
• The passive
• Reporting
• Substitution & ellipsis
• Word order & emphasis
• Nominalisation
• It & there
• Complex prepositions & prepositions after verbs
• Prepositions after nouns & adjectives

VOCABULARY:

• Means of communication
• Education
• The media
• Advertising
• Culture
• Means of transport
• Travel
• Technology
• Health & medicine
• Exercise
• The art of entertainment
• Social issues
• Historical events
• Work & business
• The environment
• Safety & danger
• Phrasal verbs
• Collocations
• Fixed phrases & idioms
• British & American spelling
• Connotations & metaphors
• Prefixes & suffixes
• Compounds
• Nouns from phrasal verbs
• Reference words

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Continuous tenses
• Perfect tenses
• Future tenses
• The passive
• Stative verbs
• Causatives with get and have
• Modal verbs for prediction, truth, possibility, necessity, duty, advice & obligation
• Modal verbs to express intention, frequency, habit, ability & permission
• Subjunctives and the unreal past
• Likely, unlikely and past conditionals
• Linking clauses to express time, reason, result & purpose
• Inversion
• Concession clauses
• Making comparisons with as/like and as if/though
• Articles
• Countable/uncountable nouns
• Adjectives & verbs as nouns
• Adjective structures
• Determiners & pronouns
• Noun clauses
• Dependent prepositions
• Relative clauses