Upper Intermediate 1 Bootcamp
Growth Track - Level 11
Coach Shaun
What you will learn
Use defining relative clauses to talk about inventions and the past perfect to share stories, while practicing giving and asking for directions and writing opinion pieces.
Retell events accurately with reported speech, learn to agree and disagree confidently in debates, and write engaging stories using time expressions.
Form Wh- questions with ease, use gradable and extreme adjectives for emphasis, and give and respond to opinions clearly, enhancing your conversational skills.
Differentiate between present perfect simple and continuous, make thoughtful suggestions for common problems, and write informative emails using a variety of connectors.
All courses operate on CET (Central European Time). Times are converted to your local time, but please be aware that time shifts in your region or CET during the Bootcamp may cause your session time to adjust. For example, a class starting at 6 a.m. could move to 7 a.m. if daylight saving time changes occur.
Course schedule
Unit 35 - Inventions
Lesson 1 - Learn defining relative clauses. Learn relative pronouns and adverbs.
At the end of the lesson, students can use defining relative clauses to talk about inventions.
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Unit 35 - Inventions
Lesson 2 - Expand understanding of defining relative clauses.
At the end of the lesson, students can use basic defining relative clauses to talk about a future invention.
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Unit 35 - Inventions
Lesson 3 - Learn language to ask for and give directions. Learn and review definitions of place.
At the end of the lesson, students can ask for and give directions.
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Unit 35 - Inventions
Lesson 4 - Learn to write an opinion on a topic. Learn helpful language to introduce an opinion, show examples, and express result and reason (since, because, because of, as a result of).
At the end of the lesson, students can write an article to express an opinion about an important invention.
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Unit 36 - What happened?
Lesson 1 - Learn the past perfect, positive and negative form and Yes / No questions. Learn time indicators.
At the end of the lesson, students can use the past perfect and past simple to tell a story.
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Unit 36 - What happened?
Lesson 2 - Learn reported speech, including backshifting and changing pronouns. Learn differences between say and tell in reported speech.
At the end of the lesson, students can use reported speech to retell an event.
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Unit 36 - What happened?
Lesson 3 - Learn language to show agreement and disagreement.
At the end of the lesson, students can show agreement and disagreement in debate about a topic, for example, climate change.
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Unit 36 - What happened?
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a story, using time expressions (the following day, suddenly, last week, soon after).
At the end of the lesson, students can write a story using expressions of time to show sequence of events.
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Unit 37 - How do you communicate and learn?
Lesson 1 - Learn Wh- questions about subjects vs objects.
At the end of the lesson, students can use a variety of Wh- questions in the context of communication.
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Unit 37 - How do you communicate and learn?
Lesson 2 - Review and expand the use of present simple and present continuous. Learn gradable and extreme adjectives.
At the end of the lesson, students can use the present simple and present continuous with increasing confidence. Students can use gradable and extreme adjectives with intensifiers in the context of learning languages.
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Unit 37 - How do you communicate and learn?
Lesson 3 - Learn language to give opinions and respond to opinions clearly. Learn me too and me neither to show agreement.
At the end of the lesson, students can express an opinion and respond to an opinion effectively.
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Unit 37 - How do you communicate and learn?
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a guide. Learn in order to and infinitive of purpose. Learn this and these to refer to ideas already mentioned.
At the end of the lesson, students can use infinitives of purpose and in order to as well as this / these to write a guide about learning English.
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Unit 38 - Modern Life
Lesson 1 - Review and expand the use of present perfect simple and study differences in usage with the past simple.
At the end of the lesson, students can use the present perfect simple and past simple with increasing confidence.
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Unit 38 - Modern Life
Lesson 2 - Learn the present perfect continuous and study differences in usage with the present perfect simple.
At the end of the lesson, students can use the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous in the correct context.
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Unit 38 - Modern Life
Lesson 3 - Learn different ways to make suggestions.
At the end of the lesson, students can talk about problems and make helpful suggestions.
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Unit 38 - Modern Life
Lesson 4 - Learn to write an email that gives news, using connectors as well as, on top of, besides, additionally, in addition, except for, and apart from.
At the end of the lesson, students can write an email that shares news about a job opportunity. Students can use connectors to add new information and connectors to include or exclude information.
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