This 10-week course is pitched at level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and completion of the course will help you meet the level requirements. To help develop your fluency in the language, the course will focus primarily on speaking and listening skills, but will also include practice in reading and writing. You will have plenty of opportunities to practise the target language through hands-on class activities such as discussions and role-plays
Key grammar points:
* Active and passive sentences
* Verbs and adjectives with prepositions: when are prepositions needed? which prepositions?
* The simple future and near-future verb forms: when should you use which?
* Indefinite articles and pronouns: when quantities can't be numbered
* The present participle and gerundive forms: how to form them? why are they different? when to use them?
Key functions:
* Discussing future plans
* Talking about indefinite quantities
* Narrating events
* Expressing opinions and viewpoints
* Giving reasons