Course description
This high-level diploma course in C1 English will enable you to become confident in your English abilities, helping you discuss challenging topics such as career planning, politics, global issues, investments, or superstitions. Each module introduces these terms using video and audio media, improving your understanding and accuracy when communicating with first-language speakers. These new words and phrases are integrated into the grammar points covered in the subsequent grammar topics, reinforcing what you have learned.
The grammar sections heighten your skill level as you investigate topics at an advanced level. You will touch on idiomatic expressions, which are fascinating when you discover their hidden meaning. Other grammar topics include identifying adjectives and adverbs to make comparisons, learning about conjunctions, the function of gerunds and infinitives, common collocations, conditional sentences, relative clauses, and the myriad of tenses.
After mastering the grammar section, you will further develop your reading, comprehension, conversation, and writing skills. The course provides downloadable resources for each module, including reading and writing tips and activities. If you're looking to improve your English skills in a stimulating and effective way, this course is a must-take. Don't delay! Register today and become an effective communicator in the English language.
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Training content
Politics and Comparative Forms
Description: This module introduces you to vocabulary related to politics and elections. You will learn how to use the three degrees of comparison when comparing people or things. You will also learn about the four types of essays and the specific writing techniques used in each.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Politics and Elections
- Grammar 1: Three Degrees of Comparison
- Grammar 2: Multiple Comparisons
- Politics and Comparative Forms - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Personalities with Types of Conjunctions
Description: This module focuses on teaching vocabulary and phrases linked to pet peeves and personality types. It will also introduce the three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and paired. In addition, it will discuss how to utilize negative adverbs and paired conjunctions in inverted sentences.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Pet Peeves
- Grammar 1: Conjunctions
- Grammar 2: Inversions with Adverbs and Conjunctions
- Personalities with Types of Conjunctions - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Global Issues with Gerund and Infinitive Functions
Description: This module will teach you essential vocabulary regarding global issues and solutions. You will also learn the function of gerunds and infinitives, when to use a gerund, and when to use an infinitive.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Global Issues
- Grammar 1: Gerunds and Infinitives
- Grammar 2: Other Uses of Gerunds and Infinitives
- Student Practice: Gerunds and Infinitives
- Lesson Summary
Career Goals and Idioms with Present Tense Forms
Description: In this module, you will learn the vocabulary related to career planning and common idioms and expressions used in English. In addition, you will review how to use the present tense in its various forms, stative and modal verbs, and how to use the present tense for past actions.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Career Planning, Common Idioms and Expressions
- Grammar 1: Present Tense Review
- Grammar 2: Present Tense Review Continued
- Career Goals and Idioms with Present Tense Forms - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Life Events and Narrative Tenses
Description: This module focuses on teaching the vocabulary that describes life events in stories and narrative transition words. It also covers the simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous past tenses and how to use them with sequential and simultaneous actions. It will also discuss perfect modals and how to use narrative tenses in stories.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Life Story
- Grammar 1: Past Tense
- Grammar 2: Modals and Transition Words
- Life Events and Narrative Tenses - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Diploma in English - C1 Level - First Assessment
Description: Assessment for modules one (Politics and Comparative Forms) to five (Life Events and Narrative Tenses) in the course Diploma in English - C1 Level.ㅤㅤㅤ
- Assessment: Diploma in English - C1 Level - First Assessment
Economics and Perfect Infinitives
Description: This module will teach you essential vocabulary relating to finance and investments. You will also review the future tenses and learn about future modals, perfect infinitives, and perfect modals.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Economy and Finance
- Grammar 1: Future Tense Review
- Grammar 2: Future Tense with Modals
- Economics and Perfect Infinitives - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Collocations and Passive Voice Forms
Description: In this module, you will learn about common collocations and phrasal verbs used in English. In addition, you will review how to use the passive form in its various forms and tenses, form sentences using passive perfect modals, and be introduced to passive phrasal verbs in a variety of tenses.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Common Collocations and Common Phrasal Verbs
- Grammar 1: Passive Form and Passive Perfect Modals
- Grammar 2: Phrasal Verbs and Passive Phrasal Verbs
- Collocations and Passive Voice Forms - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Prefixes and Suffixes with Reporting Verbs
Description: This module focuses on teaching common English prefixes and suffixes to a wide range of root words. It will also cover the different tenses and reporting verbs used in indirect speech.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Prefixes and Suffixes
- Grammar 1: Indirect Speech
- Grammar 2: Reporting Verbs
- Prefixes and Suffixes with Reporting Verbs - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Superstitions and Continuous Conditionals
Description: This module will teach you essential vocabulary relating to superstitions. You will also review conditional sentences and learn how to form mixed conditionals.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Superstitions
- Grammar 1: Conditionals Review
- Grammar 2: Mixed Conditionals Review
- Superstitions and Continuous Conditionals - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Music Genres and Cleft Sentences
Description: In this course, you will be introduced to vocabulary related to music and a variety of genres in music. You will learn more about defining and non-defining relative clauses, review noun clauses, and delve deeper into the many uses of cleft sentences.
- Learning Outcomes
- Vocabulary: Music and Music Genres
- Grammar 1: Relative Clauses
- Grammar 2: Cleft Sentences
- Music Genres and Cleft Sentences - Student Practice
- Lesson Summary
Diploma in English - C1 Level - Second Assessment
Description: Assessment for modules six (Economics and Perfect Infinitives) to ten (Music Genres and Cleft Sentences) in the course Diploma in English - C1 Level.ㅤㅤㅤ
- Assessment: Diploma in English - C1 Level - Second Assessment
Course assessment
- Assessment: Diploma in English - C1 Level - Final Assessment
Certification / Credits
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify adjectives and adverbs that are used to make comparisons
- Outline the three main types of conjunctions and their uses
- Explain the various function of gerunds and infinitives
- Recognize common English idioms and understand their meanings
- Recall the four past tenses: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous
- Summarize how to form and use perfect infinitives
- Classify common collocations and phrasal verbs and understand their differences
- Discuss how suffixes and prefixes are used to create new words
- Categorize different conditional forms and use them in mixed conditional sentences
- Describe how to use defining and non-defining relative clauses
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