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English B2 (Upper-Intermediate)

ENGLISH
Enrollment in this course is by invitation only

About this course

This course has been developed by the instructors from the Center of Educational Technology. This course follows closely the Oxford University Press series Navigate; however, it can also be used as a stand-alone online course. Our topics and Vocabulary/Grammar are the same but the course materials are not just duplicating those in the textbook.

If you do decide to work through the textbook and workbook of this series, then you can use this online course as a supplement. Our course is one of the series. Each level in the series is color-coded for your convenience when you browse the Courses at edx.ektu.kz.

This course is at Level B2 (Upper-Intermediate).

The contents of this course are listed below:

Units Topics Grammar

Communication

 Talking about rules of conversation and cross-cultural communication

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous. Question types
Escape Talking about travel and adventure. Getting out of the comfort zone

Past Perfect Tenses

Invest

 Talking about investing time and money into your future Future Tenses

Creativity

 Talking about inventions and how things work Passives. Causatives get and have
Mind Talking about childhood memories, emotions, and behavior. 

Using verbs with -ing or infinitive
Community Talking about communities and crossing cultures Articles, quantifiers, and determiners
Rules Talking rules, laws, crime and justice

Present and past modals
Old and New Talking about smart technology and generation gap

Relative clauses & participle clauses

Nightlife

 Talking about different climates, lifestyles, and sleep patterns Past and present habits; adjectives and adverbs
Senses Talking about senses, perceptions, and performances Order of adjectives and conjunction-clauses
Media

Talking about newsmaking

 Reported speech. Reporting verbs

Life Stages

 Talking about relationships, life events and choices Unreal situations. Using Wish and If only

Prerequisites

The entering proficiency level for students should be at least at the B1 + (intermediate) level.

Course developer

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Janat Hetrick

Greetings! My name is Janat Hetrick. I am an English teacher and a certified online instructor. I have been teaching English, training teachers, and developing online courses for a few years now. I enjoy the outdoors, especially the mountains, and the best way for me to rest is to spend the weekend hiking. Another favorite activity of mine is reading. If I am not hiking, then I am curled up on the couch with a book, a perfect Saturday. I am passionate about reading and instilling the love of reading in children and adults alike. I read books to little people and help them learn English through audiobooks. I also run a book club for big people (A Novel Idea) - we read stories and novels in English and then discuss them - all online.

 

Course Summary

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    COURSE

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    2 hours