Silabus
Week 1
Course introduction; languages around the world; living vs. Dead languages; stative verbs
Week 2
Spirit and its power; words easily confused; word building- word webs; formal VS informal writing; cultural identity; culture-bound characteristics; intercultural communication;
Week 3
Lexical sets: positive and negative character traits; collocations related to education; idioms related to learning; words with multiple meanings
Week 4
Sources of Stress in the Modern World; revising past and future; comparing and contrasting expressions; commonly confused words: relation/relationship, education/upbringing, job/work etc.; competition related vocabulary;
Week 5
Books and Literature; Test 1 preparation
Week 6
Test 1
Week 7
Animals and their habitats; topic related vocabulary; prepositional phrases; countable and uncountable nouns
Week 8
Liberty/freedom, freedom related vocabulary; sentence transformation; words that describe groups of animals, people and things;
Week 9
Loyalty in different kinds of relationships; articles; idioms with animals; multiple matching skills;
Week 10
Beauty contests; beauty related vocabulary; avoiding repetition; structuring a long turn; phrasal verbs;
Week 11
Test 2 preparation
Week 12
Test 2
Week 13
Tempt your palate – adjectives related to food and eating; metaphors; conditionals and hypothetical forms revision
Week 14
Customs around the globe/ strange habits; idioms related to food, eating and health issues; past tenses revision; passive voice
Week 15
Final remarks, Revision, Feedback
Correction