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 130 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.

Language Learning - Reading comprehension - matching paragraphs and headings, True, False, Not Given questions, Vocabulary - guessing meaning from context, completing a summary, Grammar - word order, Writing - outlining a task one report describing a graph, ordering a report, linking words for an introduction for an essay giving an opinion.

A Career as a Rock Star - Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, matching headings to paragraphs, completing a summary, Vocabulary - completing an open cloze, Listening - ordering topics, spotting mistakes, Writing - ordering an essay looking at advantages and disadvantages, paraphrasing sentences.

Animals and testing - Listening - multiple choice, completing a summary, Vocabulary - guessing meaning from context, Reading comprehension - True, False, Not Given questions, multiple choice, completing a summary, Writing - identifying a suitable introduction.

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

Organic Shopping - Listening - following directions, Vocabulary - matching items with definitions, antonyms, Reading comprehension - multiple choice, scanning for specific information, Writing - planning a letter, word order in a letter of complaint.

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.

Online Education - Vocabulary - word forms, completing a cloze, Reading comprehension - matching missing sentences, True, False, Not Given questions,comparing and understanding bar graphs, Writing - editing a Task 1 report, planning an essay by looking at advantages and disadvantages, structuring a Task 2 essay giving your opinion, word order in a conclusion.

Dieters Eat Fat? - Reading comprehension - matching sentence halves, completing a cloze, Writing - ordering an article, Grammar - editing extra words, Listening.

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).