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English Intermediate Course
Spanish Beginner Intermediate Accents English Beginner Intermediate Accents

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INTERMEDIATE TENSES
Introduction to Passive	Difference between active and passive
Passive	More on the passive voice
Past Continuous	Use the past continuous to complain

MODALS
Introduction to Modals	Will, can, might, should, ought to, had better
Got, have got, have	Used as a verb, these are not modals!
Modals for advisability	Should, Had better
Can, might, should, must, will, have to	Focuses on relative strength of modals for advice
Necessity	Must, have to, have got to
Polite Questions	Polite questions for permission and acceptance
Modals Summary	Review this lesson with a summary of modals use

PHRASAL VERBS
Introduction	Come up, put on, go around
Keep up	Further explanation to phrasal verbs
Get	Get out, get around, get on, get off. Get song.
Common phrasals 1	Feel up to, pull through, give in, fall for, doze off, come off, put on
Common phrasals 2	Get over with, go along with, go in for, screw out of, talk down to, cheat on
Pull	Pull your leg
Turn	Turn up, turn down, turn around, etc.

CONDITIONALS
1st Conditional	Factual conditionals in present. I laugh if I make a silly mistake.
1st Conditional	Factual conditionals in future. If you walk under a ladder, you'll have bad luck.
1st Conditional	Factual conditionals with unless. Unless means if...not
2nd Conditional	Unreal conditionals in present. If I practiced every day, I would be good.
3rd Conditional	Unreal conditionals in past. If I had lived in Japan, I would have learned more Japanese.
3rd Conditional	More practice with the 3rd conditional

CLAUSES
Relative Clauses	Who, which, what
Adverb Connectors	Because, where, since, as, in case, although,
Reported Speech	Difference between quoted and reported speech with birthdays
Reported Speech (wh) questions	Tim asked what age Jennifer had been most excited to celebrate.
Reported Speech (yes-no) questions	Henry asked me if it wasy my birthday.
Reported Speech changing verbs1	Facts keep present tense
Reported Speech changing verbs2	Tenses shift back.
Reported Speech conditionals	Sean said if he were a better cook, he would make dinner.

CULTURAL
Cleaners	Cleaners of this world. Includes vocabulary and areas for class dicussion.
Blood	The vocabulary includes pumped, oxygen, nutrients, plasma.
Christmas Origins	It explains the importance of the Winter Solstice and the reason we celebrate Christmas on December 25th
Christmas Santa	The origin of Father Christmas.
Christmas Symbols	Presents, Santa Claus, holly and misletoe.
Double Decker Bus	One of the most popular forms of British transport
Flowers for the Girl	Learn the English associated to buying flowers for your girlfriend
Halloween	The vocabulary includes, witch, broomstick, ghost, mask, soul, dead, bat, spider, skeleton and more.
Influenza	The vocabulary includes flu, vaccines, ache, admit
Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective that ever existed. Includes a joke.

IDIOMS
Colour Idioms	The origin of English idioms if a grey area.
Eye Idioms	An eye for an eye.
Heart Idioms	His heart is in the right place.
Seafood Idioms	Let you off the hook.