Courses

In this course, you start to use English in everyday life. You learn to say hello, talk about you and your family, name everyday things, tell the time, and talk about your day. You practice listening, speaking, reading and writing in class and on the LMS.

In this course, you talk about your daily life, food and shopping, your home and town, and your free time. You learn the present simple with he and she, some and any, there is and there are, can, and the present continuous. You practice English in class and online every day.

In this course, you talk about what people are doing now, your routines, your childhood and your trips. You learn the present continuous, the past simple, imperatives and should, and you practice describing people, telling stories, giving directions and giving advice to visitors. You write messages, a paragraph about your childhood, a blog post and a visitor guide.

In this course you talk about your plans and arrangements, compare cities, products and choices, give advice about health, and talk about your life experiences. You practice listening, speaking, reading and writing every day in class, and you continue online with the LMS. At the end of the course you can write invitations, comparisons, advice and short biographies.

In this course, you talk and write about your life experiences, work and study, technology and the media, and the people and places in your community. You learn to tell stories about the past, talk about the future, give opinions and make recommendations. You practice every week in class and on the LMS, and you build a writing portfolio and give short talks.

In this course you will tell and react to stories, imagine different choices and situations, discuss the environment, and communicate politely in messages, calls and emails. You will practice narrative tenses, conditionals, I wish, the passive and reported speech, and you will build a writing portfolio with a story, an essay paragraph and a formal email.

In this course you will discuss identity and culture, the modern workplace, science and innovation, and crime and justice. You will practice the present perfect simple and continuous, gerunds and infinitives, modals of obligation and deduction, the passive and causative, and third and mixed conditionals. You will build a writing portfolio with a statement of purpose, a job application letter, an article about an invention and a for-and-against essay.

In this course you will analyze news and advertising, discuss global issues, explore money and business, and talk about health and society. You will build a wider range of advanced grammar for reporting, adding information, forecasting, contrasting and expressing wishes and preferences. You will write reviews, opinion and discussion essays and a business proposal, and you will practice debates, presentations and panel discussions.

Advanced 1 develops the precise, flexible English you need for academic study and professional life. Over four weeks you explore how we think and communicate, how cities change, the ethics of technology and the skills behind research and learning, while mastering emphatic structures, inversion, advanced modals, hedging and academic register. You will write a reflective essay, a formal proposal, an argumentative essay and a summary and response, and give mini-lectures, take part in committee and seminar discussions and deliver an academic presentation.

In this course you develop the precise, flexible English needed for professional and academic life. Over four units on leadership, the arts, economics and research, you learn to report opinions impersonally, critique creative work, analyze data and present research findings, and you produce a portfolio of formal writing.

This course refines your command of English as an instrument of persuasion, nuance, precision and critique. You will analyze and deliver persuasive speeches, work with the finest shades of meaning in idiom and connotation, handle the formal language of law and policy, and evaluate arguments in writing and discussion. By the end, you will write and speak with the control and range of a highly educated user of English.

This final course of the program develops the highest level of control over English across disciplines and purposes. You will adapt complex scientific ideas for different audiences, analyze literature closely, negotiate and mediate toward consensus, and complete an independent capstone research project that you present to the class.