Course description
This engaging diploma English course covers B2-level concepts and consists of manageable sections to make learning this language as clear and straightforward as possible. Each module begins by expanding your vocabulary, introducing new words to help grow your confidence in speaking and interacting with others using this global language. Each module takes the latest vocabulary you have learned and applies it to specific grammar points so your understanding grows in context.
Each section covers many grammar aspects to enhance your language abilities, such as adjectives and adverbs, which help you describe and modify nouns, verbs, and other adjectives. These descriptive words can be placed before or after the word they modify, depending on the emphasis needed in a sentence. You will also study passive and active voice. By using the passive or active voice, you can create different tones and focus in your writing or speech.
You will use each language and vocabulary point presented in the course to enhance your reading and listening comprehension before you tackle the writing activities. We recommend this course for those who want to advance their proficiency in English through a fun and structured approach. Become adept at English and register for this course today!
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Training content
Managing Fears and Extreme Adjectives
Description: This module focuses on teaching words and phrases related to fear. It will also review adjectives and adverbs, the introduction of adjectives ending in -ed and -ing, extreme adjectives, and their differences. It will also discuss 'such' and 'so' and how to use them with 'that.'
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Fears
- Grammar 1: Adjectives and Adverbs
- Grammar 2: So and Such
- Student Practice for Managing Fears and Extreme Adjectives
- Lesson Summary
Housing Features and Relative Clauses
Description: This module introduces you to the vocabulary related to personal home preferences and searching for a new home. You will learn how to use the passive voice in the future tense using 'will be' and by phrases. You will also learn how to use modal verbs, relative pronouns, relative adverbs and relative clauses in spoken and written language.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: House Hunting
- Grammar 1: Passive Voice
- Grammar 2: Relative Clauses
- Housing Features and Relative Clauses - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Environmental Concerns and Noun Clauses
Description: This module will teach you essential vocabulary regarding the environment and environmental protection. You will learn to use noun clauses and embedded questions in questions and statements.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: The Environment
- Grammar 1: Noun Clauses
- Grammar 2: Embedded Questions
- Student Practice: Noun Clauses and Embedded Questions
- Lesson Summary
Banking with Modals for Deduction and Speculation
Description: This module explores the language related to using money and the services offered by banks. You will review how to use modals for deduction and speculation and delve deeper into other expressions related to these modals. Finally, you will learn how to correctly form and answer negative questions and use 'can't have' and 'needn't have'.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Money and Banking
- Grammar 1: Modals for Deduction and Speculation
- Grammar 2: Negative Questions
- Banking with Modals for Deduction and Speculation - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Personal Traits and Future Perfect Tense
Description: This module's focus is on teaching words and phrases related to role models. It will also cover a review of the future continuous tense, the introduction of 'be going to + be,' and the future perfect tense, including its forms and uses. It will also discuss phrasal verbs with two and three words and how to use them in different tenses.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Role Models
- Grammar 1: Future Continuous and Perfect Tenses
- Grammar 2: Phrasal Verbs
- Personal Traits and Future Perfect Tense - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Diploma in English - B2 Level - First Assessment
Description: Assessment for modules one (Managing Fears and Extreme Adjectives) to five (Personal Traits and Future Perfect Tense) in the course Diploma in English - B2 Level.ㅤㅤㅤ
- Assessment: Diploma in English - B2 Level - First Assessment
Movies and Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Description: This module will teach you essential vocabulary regarding movies and filmmaking. You will learn to use the future perfect, the future perfect continuous, 'will' and 'going to' statements as noun clauses, and 'would' to discuss past plans.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Movies and Filmmaking
- Grammar 1: Future Perfect Continuous
- Grammar 2: Going To
- Student Practice: Future Perfect & Future Perfect Continous
- Lesson Summary
The Media and Questions in Indirect Speech
Description: This module introduces you to vocabulary related to mass media and the news. You will revise how to use direct speech and change it into indirect speech using various verbs, adverbs and question words. You will also discover how to write and structure paragraphs in writing.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Mass Media and News
- Grammar 1: Direct and Indirect Speech
- Grammar 2: Indirect Speech Changes
- The Media and Questions in Indirect Speech - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Regrets and Past Perfect Tense
Description: This module teaches words and phrases related to shopping and buyer's remorse. It will also review the past perfect tense and discuss using perfect modals such as 'should have' and 'ought to have.' It will examine how to use 'wish' and 'if only' in the past perfect tense to express regrets.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Shopping and Buyer's Remorse
- Grammar 1: Past Perfect and Perfect Modals
- Grammar 2: Wish and If Only
- Regrets and Past Perfect Tense - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Hobbies and Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Description: This module will teach you essential vocabulary regarding hobbies, stress, and relaxation. You will learn to use the past perfect continuous, 'used to', and 'would' to discuss past habits.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Hobbies, Stress, and Relaxation
- Grammar 1: Past Perfect Continuous
- Grammar 2: Used to & Would for Past Habits
- Hobbies and Past Perfect Continuous Tense - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Health and Wellness with Mixed Conditionals
Description: This module explores the language related to health and wellness and standard medical treatments. You will review zero, first, second, and third conditionals and be introduced to mixed conditionals. In addition, we will discover how to use conditionals and mixed conditionals in the negative form and questions.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Health, Wellness, and Treatments
- Grammar 1: Conditionals
- Grammar 2: Mixed Conditionals
- Health and Wellness with Mixed Conditionals - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Diploma in English - B2 Level - Second Assessment
Description: Assessment for modules six (Movies and Future Perfect Continuous Tense) to ten (Health and Wellness with Mixed Conditionals) in the course Diploma in English - B2 Level.ㅤㅤㅤ
- Assessment: Diploma in English - B2 Level - Assessment 2
Course assessment
- Assessment: Diploma in English - B2 Level - Final Assessment
Certification / Credits
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recall how adjectives and adverbs are used, what they do, and where they go in a sentence
- Compare the passive to the active voice
- Classify relative pronouns and relative adverbs
- Identify noun clauses and embedded questions in sentences
- Outline the use of modals for deduction and speculation
- Recall the forms and uses of phrasal verbs in various tenses
- Compare the future perfect with the future simple tense
- Identify and compare the different tenses used in direct and indirect speech
- Discuss the use of the perfect modals 'should have' and 'ought to have' to express regret
- Compare the past perfect continuous tense with the past continuous tense
- Summarize how to use zero, first, second, and third conditionals
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