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General English Advanced

duration: 4 weeks

price: free

by Christina Stefanik

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About this Course

General English will provide students with an opportunity to develop listening and speaking skills, enhance structural accuracy, and foster an expansion of everyday English communication skills. The advanced level of this program will help students to brainstorm, discuss, restate, ask about, and respond to information found in a variety of current events and general topics; associate cause and effect and classify information from a variety of oral sources, including live and technological resources and determine the value of this information; identify and produce sentences incorporating adverb, adjective, and noun clauses, including true and untrue conditionals; produce sentences in all of the English verb tenses; and produce and respond to critical analysis questions about a variety of topics.

For the course syllabus, student forms, and policies, please refer to Student Resources on the TLC website.

https://www.thelanguagecompany.com/index.php?student-resources

Course Objectives

Students will be able to:

• speculate about personal tastes, habits, and truth in traditional wisdom (e.g. proverbs and quotations)

Learning modules

Week 1
- Impromptu presentation
- Discussion with conditionals
- Passive modals in context
- Vocabulary homework
Week 2
- Speaking with conditionals
- Listen for conditionals on NPR
- Current events discussion
- Current events: news story presentation
- "If I won the lottery" sentences
Week 3
- "When I get my lottery winnings" sentence completions
- Current events: News discussion
- Current events: presentation with analysis
- Background information summary
Week 4
- Current events discussion
- Current events vocabulary and phrasal verbs
- Current events: presentation with verbal citation

About the Instructor

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44 students

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Christina Stefanik

TLC Director of Curriculum & Systems

Born and raised in Cleveland, I currently reside in Columbus, Ohio. I've spent some years in both Germany and Austria as a student (high school, undergraduate, and graduate). I'm passionate about language, travel, politics, history, and food. I received my BA and BS degrees from Heidelberg University and both of my MA degrees from Bowling Green State University. I've been with TLC since 2009 and thoroughly enjoying working with international students.

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