SelfAccess
Online English courses - Academic English - Advanced
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. 150 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. There are 15 frequently occurring
themes in each English course and then for each theme we have selected
a lesson covering a number of skills and skill subsets you will need
to pass your exam.
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.
Sport
Salaries - Grammar - verb forms, Writing - ordering an
argumentative essay, using linking words, Vocabulary - matching items
and definitions, understanding meaning from context, Reading comprehension
- selecting headings for paragraphs, True, False, Not Given, short answers.
Danger
in the Workplace - Grammar - completing an open cloze,
Reading comprehension - summarising paragraphs, short answers, multiple
choice, completing a table comparing pie graphs, Vocabulary - identifying
word forms, matching items and definitions, Writing - sentence transformations,
structuring a report.
Life
on Death Row - Reading comprehension - multiple choice,
True, False or Not Given questions, differentiating between fact and opinion,
Vocabulary - understanding meaning from context, Writing - planning and
categorising main ideas for an argumentative essay, structuring an argumentative
essay, using topic sentences, using discourse markers.
Work
Stress - 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.
Learning
from History - Reading comprehension - True, False or Not
Given questions, summarising, Grammar - completing a cloze, using -ing
forms, Vocabulary - matching items and definitions, word forms, Writing
- structuring an argumentative essay.
Drugs
and Society - Grammar - editing mistakes, completing sentences,
Vocabulary - deducing meaning from context, Reading comprehension - multiple
choice, completing a graph, short answers, Writing - completing a report
describing a graph, structuring a cause and effect essay, ordering a cause
and effect essay, listening to a reading text.
To
Immunise? - Reading comprehension - matching text and title,
inferring meaning from context, True, False, Not Given questions, classifying
items, completing a cloze, Listening - multiple choice, sentence completion,
Writing - ordering a "for or against" essay.
Cloning - Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings,
True, False, Not Given questions,understanding the writer's opinions,
Vocabulary - understanding meaning in context, Grammar - verb forms in
context, using adverbs and prepositions, Writing - structuring an essay
giving your opinion, listening to a reading text.
Superbugs - 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.
Work
and Sexism - Reading comprehension - multiple choice, Vocabulary
- understanding meaning in context, choosing word forms, Grammar - finding
mistakes, completing sentences, Listening - short answers, multiple choice,
Writing - structuring an essay giving your opinion, completing an open
cloze.
Gambling - Listening - ordering steps, multiple choice, completing
forms, Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, True,
False or Not Given questions, multiple choice, short answers, Vocabulary
- understanding vocabulary in context, colloquial expressions, Writing
- completing an open cloze using grammar words.
Fur
- ban it or wear it? - 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.
Happiness
- 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.
Hunting
Endangered Animals - Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs
and headings, short answers, True, False, Not Given questions, Vocabulary
- understanding vocabulary in context, Listening - listening for specific
information, multiple choice, Speaking - note taking, completing a speech,
ordering a short talk, Grammar - verb forms.
Those students with an approximate IELTS score
of 6, a TOEFL score of 500-600 or trying for Cambridge Proficiency will
find these upper-intermediate and advanced lessons a very useful tool.