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

	This course contains: 11 lessons based on real newspaper articles. 4 progress checks - exercises to revise themes and skills Reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary.
	This course includes: 100% interactive exercises. Over 100 activities and exercises - approximately 30 hours of online study. Model essays, articles, letters 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.
	You have 3 months to complete the course and can do each exercise in each lesson twice. We have divided the course up by theme. Each lesson has its own theme and covers a number of skills and skill subsets you will need to pass your exam.

Smoking - Vocabulary - word forms, matching items and definitions, Reading comprehension - True, False and Not Given questions, short answers, Listening - completing a cloze, Writing - completing a descriptive report, ordering an essay giving your opinion, Grammar - modal verbs.

Language Learning - Listening - True, False questions, multiple choice, dictation, listening for errors, Reading comprehension - completing a table, multiple choice, Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, Writing - planning a formal letter to a lecturer, ordering a letter.

Computer Overload - Reading comprehension - completing a cloze, completing a summary, completing a table, Grammar - looking for mistakes, sentence transformations, Writing - completing a cloze, completing a flow chart, completing a Task 1 report describing a process.

Progress Check 1 - Exercises covering previous themes, skills and grammar points.

Media - Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, Reading comprehension - True, False and Not Given questions, matching paragraphs and topics,short answers, Writing - completing a cloze, Writing - ordering an argumentative essay, matching halves of key point sentences.

Studying Overseas - Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, ordering a summary, short answers, Vocabulary - matching items with definitions, True, False, Not Given questions, Grammar - linking words, Writing - planning an essay giving your opinion, structuring an essay giving your opinion, using linking words.

Work - Reading comprehension - multiple choice, identifying factors, Writing - editing extra words, rewriting sentences, choosing the correct word forms in an essay giving your opinion, Listening - multiple choice.

Progress Check 2 - Exercises covering previous themes, skills and grammar points.

Diet - Reading comprehension - completing a table, understanding a graph, Vocabulary - completing sentences with the correct word form, Writing - structuring a report describing graphs, Listening - choosing sentence endings, completing a chart describing a process, Grammar - using the passive to describe a process, prepositions in context.

Science - Vocabulary - matching items with definitions, guessing meaning from context, matching key sentence halves, Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, Listening - completing a summary.

The Environment - Reading comprehension - multiple choice, short answers, True, False or Not Given questions, Vocabulary - collocation, Listening - ordering topics, completing a summary, Grammar - looking for errors, Writing - completing a report describing a graph.

Progress Check 3 - Exercises covering previous themes, skills and grammar points.

Technology - Reading comprehension - matching headings and sections, True, False, Not Given questions, Vocabulary - guessing meaning from context, identifying references, completing a summary,Writing - choosing the correct verb, organising ideas for an argumentative essay.

Animals - Reading comprehension - matching sections and headings, Vocabulary - guessing meaning from context, True, False, Not Given questions, short answers, Writing - categorising main ideas for an essay giving your opinion, completing an introduction to an essay, adding topic sentences.

Fashion - Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, multi-word verbs, matching synonyms, Reading comprehension - True, False and Not Given questions, Writing - editing extra words, completing an essay giving your opinion by selecting from an open cloze.

Progress Check 4 - Exercises covering previous themes, skills and grammar points.

If you have an IELTS score of approximately 5, a TOEFL score of 500-600, FCE or are trying for Cambridge Advanced English, this online course will be very helpful.