Upper Advanced 1 Bootcamp
Mastery Track - Level 17
Coach Shaun
What you will learn
Use inversions, restrictive adverbials, and a wide range of narrative tenses to tell compelling stories and describe past plans and expectations with precision.
Write structured essays, engaging travel reviews, and professional job application letters with confidence. Learn to employ participle clauses and noun phrases for more descriptive and varied communication.
Discuss obligation, necessity, and willingness in various contexts, such as job interviews, and talk about memories meaningfully using advanced grammar structures.
Use relative clauses, compound adjectives, and passive constructions to discuss crime and punishment or profile influential individuals. Analyze situations using stative and sense verbs to improve your descriptive language.
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 59 - New boundaries
Lesson 1 - Learn inversions and restrictive adverbials.
At the end of the lesson, students can make statements with a variety of restrictive adverbials with inversion.
Zoom
Unit 59 - New boundaries
Lesson 2 - Learn the past tense of future forms. Review would for repeated habits that are no longer true. Expand use of narrative tenses.
At the end of the lesson, students can use the past tense of future forms to talk about the future in the past as well as employ a wider range of narrative tenses.
Zoom
Unit 59 - New boundaries
Lesson 3 - Expand the use of the past tenses of future forms. Learn narrative tenses. Learn was supposed to / was to have + past participle for past expectations.
At the end of the lesson, students can tell a story prompted by pictures, employing a wide range of narrative tenses and using the past tense of future forms to talk about plans, predictions, and intentions in the past.
Zoom
Unit 59 - New boundaries
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a travel review, using adjectives to build a picture, suggesting what to do and see, and giving practical tips.
At the end of the lesson, students can organize and write an engaging travel review about Cuenca, Ecuador.
Zoom
Speaking Practice
Zoom
Unit 60 - Remember
Lesson 1 - Expand understanding of noun phrases. Learn compound nouns, compound adjectives and adverbs + nouns, adjectives with indefinite pronouns, possessives, and prepositional phrases after nouns.
At the end of the lesson, students will have a greater understanding of different types of noun structures.
Zoom
Unit 60 - Remember
Lesson 2 - Learn and review causatives with get and have. Learn collocations with get.
At the end of the lesson, students can recognize and use basic passive constructions with get and have to talk about a memory.
Zoom
Unit 60 - Remember
Lesson 3 - Learn to talk about memories.
At the end of the lesson, students can talk about memories in a meaningful way.
Zoom
Unit 60 - Remember
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a profile article about a talented person.
At the end of the lesson, students can write a profile article about a famous video game programmer.
Zoom
Speaking Practice
Zoom
Unit 61 - Does that seem right?
Lesson 1 - Learn and review defining and non-defining relative clauses. Learn shortening relative clauses.
At the end of the lesson, students can use relative clauses to talk about crime and punishment.
Zoom
Unit 61 - Does that seem right?
Lesson 2 - Expand understanding of relative clauses to include prepositions, quantifiers, indefinite pronouns.
At the end of the lesson, students can use relative clauses with greater ease in different ways.
Zoom
Unit 61 - Does that seem right?
Lesson 3 - Learn and expand language to speak about obligation, necessity, very strong advice and willingness.
At the end of the lesson, students can talk more confidently about necessity, obligation and willingness in the context of a job interview.
Zoom
Unit 61 - Does that seem right?
Lesson 4 - Learn to write an essay using a variety of linking words for introducing new information and giving examples.
At the end of the lesson, students can organize and write a structured essay about an issue.
Zoom
Speaking Practice
Zoom
Unit 62 - Situations
Lesson 1 - Review and compare uses of simple and continuous forms. Learn sense verbs and other stative verbs that can have different meanings in the simple and continuous forms.
At the end of the lesson, students will have a greater understanding of sense verbs and other stative verbs. Students will have increased confidence in using simple and continuous tenses.
Zoom
Unit 62 - Situations
Lesson 2 - Learn basic forms and uses of participle clauses.
At the end of the lesson, students can see how participle clauses create a descriptive narrative.
Zoom
Unit 62 - Situations
Lesson 3 - Expand understanding of participle clauses to include present, past, and perfect participle clauses.
At the end of the lesson, students can effectively use participle clauses to create a descriptive narrative.
Zoom
Unit 62 - Situations
Lesson 4 - Learn to write a job application letter, following guidelines what to include and the order in which it should appear.
At the end of this lesson, students can write a job application for a journalist position per a job advertisement.
Zoom
Speaking Practice
Zoom
Your Path To English Fluency Starts Here - Invest in Yourself Today!
The Speak EnglishAccelerator Bootcamp
For a small investment of $197 for the entire 4-week Bootcamp, you’ll receive daily live instruction, personalized feedback, and a structured pathway to English fluency in a small-group environment.
20 live, small-group sessions focused on speaking and real-world skills
Weekly confidence-building practice speaking days
Direct access to your dedicated coach
Personalized homework feedback and comprehensive unit reviews
Certificate of completion
BONUS: Weekend Community Practice Opportunities
Investing in the Speak English Accelerator Bootcamp means investing in your future. Imagine the career advancements, social connections, and opportunities you could unlock by becoming fluent in English. This Bootcamp equips you with the skills and confidence to communicate freely in any English-speaking situation
Limited Spots Available: 5 per Bootcamp
Next Bootcamp begins January 6, 2025.
Registration deadline is December 29, 2024.
