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

	This course contains: 15 lessons based on real newspaper articles. 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, 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. We have selected some shorter, less difficult lessons for you to begin with.

Festivals - Reading comprehension, Grammar - adjectives, superlatives and comparatives, third conditional.

Protecting Animals - Grammar - past perfect, question forms, Listening, Reading comprehension.

Sea Monsters - Reading comprehension, listening and grammar - passive or active voice?

Money - Reading comprehension - scanning for specific information and main points, Writing - understanding a graph and transferring information, Vocabulary - choosing correct word forms, Grammar - prepositions.

Education - Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, matching paragraphs and headings, Listening - short answers, completing a summary, Writing - word order, using linkers in an argumentative essay.

Business - Vocabulary - guessing meaning from context, Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, Grammar - looking for mistakes in sentences, sentence transformations, Listening - ordering topics, dictation, multiple choice, short answers, Writing - completing each gap in an essay giving your opinion with a suitable "grammar" word

Video games - Listening, reading comprehension - instructions, Grammar - sentence transformations, writing an essay giving advice, completing a summary.

Families and Society - Vocabulary - matching items with definitions, Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, short answers, completing a summary describing a graph, Grammar - word forms, Writing - ordering a descriptive report describing a graph, completing a cloze describing a graph.

Children and The Law - Vocabulary - word forms, matching items with definitions, guessing meaning from context, Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, understanding implications, short answers, Grammar - completing sentences, finding mistakes, Writing - ordering an argumentative Task 2 essay, Listening to a reading text.

Censorship - Grammar - determiners, articles, Vocabulary - gap fill, Listening, Writing an essay giving your opinion.

Technology and Privacy - Writing a plan for an argumentative task 2 essay, using linking words, Listening, Reading comprehension - completing short answer questions, completing a table.

Transport - Vocabulary - matching items with definitions, Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, completing a table, short answer questions, Grammar - finding errors, completing a story board, Writing - completing an open cloze in an essay giving your opinion

Useful Robots? - Reading comprehension - True, False or Not Given questions, completing a table, completing a summary, Writing - planning an essay, ordering a Task 2 essay looking at advantages and disadvantages, Vocabulary - synonyms, Listening - multiple choice.

Ideal for those who are approximately at an IELTS bandscore of 4, TOEFL 400-500 or aiming for FCE (First Certificate English).