GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE

LEVEL BOOSTER - UPPER-INTERMEDIATE

www.ieltscnr.com/upper_inter
This Level Booster course helps develop your language toward a 4.5-5.5 IELTS bandscore and is perfect preparation for students who need to try and get a 6+ after an IELTS exam technique course. You should have successfully completed a general English intermediate course.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and use higher level grammar with higher degree of success
   
2. Understand and use a wider range of formal and informal vocabulary and idioms
3. Develop a variety of writing styles
4. Improve your listening and reading skills to more native-speaker levels of ability
   
5. Practice and improve fluency and pronunciation
6. Understand your own learning needs
   

Course details:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 6-9pm for 15 weeks. Total of 135hrs.

Coursework:

• At least 3 writing task in different styles – including IELTS type questions
• Regular homework sheets – grammar and vocabulary

Essential grammar and vocabulary needed for higher bandscores in IELTS:

Review of tenses and the more unusual uses

• Present
• Past – narrative tenses
  
• All perfect tenses
  
• Future

Modals:

• Conditionals
• Language of recommendation
• Language of deduction / cautious language

Complex sentences using various structures and conjunctions:

• Relative clauses and reduced relative clauses, because, however, for example, besides, although, as, while, when, in case, unless etc

Introduction to different writing styles, including:

• essays, biographies, letters, reports

Plenty of speaking practice to use the grammar and vocabulary learnt - emphasis is given to pronunciation and grammatical accuracy

Vocabulary across a range of topics and styles, including but not limited to:

• crime
• media
• health
• relationships
• food
• more formal and informal expressions and idioms suited to the reading, listening and speaking exams