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General English-Advanced

duration: 4 weeks
price: free
Academic English
by Christina Stefanik

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

Students will be able to:

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

Learning modules

  • Week 1

    • Causes and effects: Waterways in Bali

    • Causes and effects

    • TED Talk notes

    • Discussion with Q & A

  • Week 2

    • Interview questions

    • Interview simulation

    • Useful interview phrases

    • Interview analysis

  • Week 3

    • Common phrases used in meetings

    • Meeting agenda creation

    • Meeting simulation

    • Common workplace idioms in context: listening practice

  • Week 4

    • Clause review packet

    • Clauses: Verbal practice

    • Clause quiz

    • Clauses in questions: verbal practice

About the Instructor

35 courses

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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