This course will help you get results and improve those English skills you need to succeed.

	This course contains: 15 lessons based on newspaper articles, notices, advertisements, leaflets and timetables. Reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary.
	This course includes: 100% interactive exercises. Over 120 activities and exercises - approximately 30 hours of online study. Model essays, articles and reports. Colourful graphics and audio. Immediate feedback on your work. Progress Reports to show you how you are going, what you have completed and what you need to finish.
	We have divided the course up by theme. There are 15 frequently occurring themes and for each theme we have selected a lesson covering a number of skills and skill subsets you will need to pass your exam.

Youth - Grammar - finding mistakes, understanding pronouns, Writing - editing skills, ordering, Vocabulary - deducting meaning from context, Reading comprehension - multiple choice questions, inferencing.

Work - Grammar - completing a cloze, Reading comprehension - summarising paragraphs, True, False, Not Given, completing a table, interpreting information on a bar graph, Vocabulary - word forms, matching items and definitions, Writing - editing, structuring a cause and effect essay.

The Environment - Reading comprehension - selecting headings for paragraphs, True, False or Not Given questions, scanning for specific information, Listening - multiple choice, Vocabulary - understanding meaning from context, Writing - planning and categorising main ideas for an argumentative essay, writing an introduction.

Fashion - Grammar - understanding pronouns, Reading comprehension - True, False or Not Given questions, summarising paragraphs, short answers, completing a summary, Vocabulary - deducting meaning from context, Writing - structuring an argumentative essay, linking and sequencing words.

The Future - Reading comprehension - True, False or Not Given questions, matching paragraphs and headings, short answers, multiple choice, Vocabulary - understanding meaning in context, Writing - summarising, organising a descriptive report describing graphs.

Education -Grammar - editing, verb forms, Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, completing a cloze, Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, Writing - word order, using linking words in an essay giving your opinion.

Nuclear Issues - Reading comprehension - adding the missing sentences or phrases, multiple choice, True, False, Not Given questions, short answers, classifying view points, Listening - sentence completion, Writing - brainstorming for an essay giving your opinion, using discourse markers.

Natural Disasters - Reading comprehension - adding missing sentences or phrases, True, False, Not Given questions, Writing - analysing a data table, completing a report, editing, structuring an essay giving your opinion, Vocabulary - word forms, Listening - multiple choice, completing a table.

Feelings and Opinions - Reading comprehension - multiple choice, classifying information, matching lists to headings, True, False or Not Given questions, Grammar - verb forms, Vocabulary - understanding meaning in context, Writing - structuring an essay giving your opinion, identifying topic sentences, ordering an argumentative essay.

Journalism and the Media - Writing - collocation, structuring an essay giving your opinion, Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, Reading comprehension - multiple choice, identifying causes and effects, understanding a writer's point of view, Grammar - sentence transformations, sentence completion.

Health - Listening - ordering a lecture, completing a summary, Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, True, False or Not Given questions, Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, classifying items, Grammar - identifying grammatical mistakes.

Space - Reading comprehension - multiple choice, adding missing sentences or phrases, matching paragraphs and headings, short answers, True, False or Not Given questions, Vocabulary - understanding meaning in context, Writing - structuring a report describing a graph.

Technology - Vocabulary - guessing meaning from context, Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, classifying opinions, adding missing sentences or clauses, True, False, Not Given questions, Listening - multiple choice, short answers, Grammar - using discourse markers, Writing - editing grammatical mistakes.

Endangered Animals - Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, True, False, Not Given questions, classifying items, adding the missing sentences or phrases, short answers, Listening - short answers, completing a table, answering True, False or Not Given questions, grammar - completing a cloze, Grammar - reason and result.

Travel - Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, True, False, Not Given questions, short answers, multiple choice, sequencing events, completing a table. Vocabulary - deducting meaning from context, Grammar - completing a cloze.

Those students with an approximate score of 6 in an IELTS test, a TOEFL score of 600-670 in the paper-based TOEFL test, 250-300 in the computer based TOEFL test or have passed the Cambridge Advanced English test will find these upper-intermediate and advanced lessons a very useful tool!