Upper Intermediate Power 60, Course A
(B2) Upper-Intermediate, Code: 21306
Exercises: 242 / 60 Hours
Introduction
Upper Intermediate Power 60 Course A is an online course, consisting of 50 units of English, and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.
Course aims
To take students through many areas of English language that is studied at Intermediate, CEFR B2 level. When combined with Upper Intermediate Power 60 Course B, it will take students up to CEFR C1 level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level, with vocabulary, including verb + preposition combinations, spelling, reading, listening, writing and speaking.
Grammar
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- talk and write confidently about the past, present and future, using a variety of verb forms. They will use the continuous and perfect aspect when the need requires, and also be able to talk about present and past habit.
- form sentences using the present perfect to talk about past experience, news headlines and unfinished past. They will know the difference between the present perfect simple and continuous, and know how to use each with a variety of time expressions and adverbials.
- use more complex passive forms and know when to use the active voice and passive voice. They will have increased their knowledge of passive verb forms.
- use relative clauses to give essential and non-essential information.
- use conditional forms to talk about future possible and future unlikely situations, alternative present situations and hypothetical past situations and their results.
- connect sentences using a range of conjunctions and other connecting words
- identify transitive and intransitive verbs forms, and be accurate when following one verb form with another, which will be in the gerund or infinitive form
- Report statements and questions
- use past forms of modal verbs to express possibility, regret, certainty and negative certainty.
- create questions from statements using tags
- use articles correctly
- place adverbs and adverbials in their correct position within sentences.
Vocabulary
By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 400 lexical items, including nouns, verbs and adjectives, commonly used phrasal verbs and lexical sets.
Skills
By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of registers contexts, descriptions, stories and opinions.
Unit summary
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Module |
Unit focus |
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Entry test |
A 50-question test which will be used for comparative purposes with the end of course exit test. |
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Module 1 |
Vocabulary |
Adjectives of character and mood |
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Grammar |
Articles |
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Reading |
A tale of two cities |
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Listening |
A traffic report |
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Vocabulary |
Animals |
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Grammar |
Conjunctions and connectors |
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Phrasal verbs 1 |
Practice in idiomatic verb + preposition combinations. |
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Wordbuilding 1 |
Practice in building vocabulary through related words groups |
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Writing |
Writing stories 1 |
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Revision |
Material from module 1 |
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Module 2 |
Vocabulary |
Parts of the body |
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Grammar |
Ed and Ing adjectives |
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Reading |
Charities |
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Listening |
Ally McBeal |
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Vocabulary |
Feeling ill |
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Grammar |
Few and a few |
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Phrasal verbs 2 |
Practice in idiomatic verb + preposition combinations. |
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Spelling 1 |
Practice in spelling more difficult words |
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Speaking |
Conversations 1 - Two friends meet again after a long time |
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Revision |
Material from module 2 |
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Module 3 |
Vocabulary |
Clothes |
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Grammar |
Future Continuous |
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Reading |
Culture shock |
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Listening |
Film charts |
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Vocabulary |
Shops |
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Grammar |
Gerunds and infinitives |
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Phrasal verbs 3 |
Practice in idiomatic verb + preposition combinations. |
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Wordbuilding 2 |
Practice in building vocabulary through related words groups |
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Writing |
The perfect essay: 1 Introduction |
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Revision |
Material from module 3 |
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Module 4 |
Vocabulary |
Jobs and professions |
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Grammar |
Passive |
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Reading |
Great inventions: the Sony Walkman |
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Listening |
My strange day |
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Vocabulary |
Household chores |
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Grammar |
Past modals - Must and Should |
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Phrasal verbs 4 |
Practice in idiomatic verb + preposition combinations. |
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Spelling 2 |
Practice in spelling more difficult words |
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Speaking |
Conversations 2 - Seeing a famous person on the street |
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Revision |
Material from module 4 |
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Module 5 |
Vocabulary |
Things in the kitchen |
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Grammar |
Present Perfect |
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Reading |
Heroes |
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Listening |
Novelist Alistair Maclean |
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Vocabulary |
Verbs connected with cooking |
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Grammar |
Present Perfect Continuous |
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Phrasal verbs 5 |
Practice in idiomatic verb + preposition combinations. |
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Wordbuilding 3 |
Practice in building vocabulary through related words groups |
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Writing |
The perfect essay: 2 Main body |
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Revision |
Material from module 5 |
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Exit test |
A 50-question test which covers the same areas as the entry test, thereby giving students an accurate measure of their progress through the course. |
Follow-up
Students who complete Upper Intermediate Power 60 A should consider studying our follow-up course, Upper Intermediate Power 60 B