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General English Introduction

Welcome to the General English program. Your online English lessons are organized by themes that give unity to your learning experience. Each of the three levels offers 30 Core Lessons, 15 Listening Skill Builders and 30 Reading Skill Builders.

Core Lessons are designed to test, then teach. Your problem areas are identified, and then you receive individualized Feedback Lessons. The lessons contain vocabulary, picture, grammar, and listening sections. Each Core Lesson is based on a different theme and covers a different grammar structure.

  • Each Core Lesson goes through several stages:
  • 1. Lesson Introduction
    Each Core Lesson begins with a presentation of the topic and introduction to the key vocabulary.

    2. Vocabulary
    In this section you study definitions, examples, and exercises related to the key vocabulary.

    3. Usage
    Picture activities help you to identify correct English as spoken by native speakers.

    4. Grammar
    Each Core Lesson presents exercises covering three grammatical forms. The entire course covers twenty-nine of these forms.

    5. Listening Comprehension
    Listen to the vocabulary, usage and grammar from the Core Lesson used in real situations.

    6. Assessment
    After finishing the Core Lesson, your results are available to you immediately: you will receive a summary of the questions you missed and an analysis of your common errors.

    7. Feedback
    You get individual Feedback Lessons that help you with your most common errors. You will also have access to our Library of Coaching Exercises and Reference materials for continuing study.

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  • Skill Level Theme Grammatical Forms
    Level I — Upper Elementary Cooking
  • Open questions
  • Future forms
  • Singular and Plural
  • Level II — Intermediate Daily News
  • Progressive verb forms
  • Modal auxiliaries
  • Open questions
  • Level III — Advanced Humor
  • Subject/verb agreement
  • Gerunds and infinitives
  • Question tags
  • To determine the best level for you, please take the online Placement Test.
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