Advanced Power 120

Introduction

Advanced Power 120 is an online course, consisting of 100 units of English, and providing approximately 120 hours of study for students.

Course aims

This course is designed to take students from Intermediate, CEFR C1 up to C2. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level, with vocabulary, spelling, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Граматика

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Confidently talk and write about the past, present, and future using a variety of verb forms, including continuous and perfect aspects.
  • Use complex passive forms and understand when to use active and passive voices.
  • Use relative clauses, conditional forms, and question tags effectively.
  • Express nuanced meanings using modal verbs, causative forms, and subjunctive structures.
  • Manipulate sentence structures to enhance communication.

Речник

By the end of the course, students will have learned approximately 800 lexical items, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.

Unit summary

Module 1

  • Речник: Adjectives of character
  • Граматика: Articles
  • Четене: Been there, done that
  • Слушане: Bad dreams
  • Речник: Adjective and noun collocations 2
  • Граматика: Causative Have and Get
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Писане: Formal letters
  • Revision: Material from module 1

Module 2

  • Речник: Adjectives of mood
  • Граматика: Conjunctions and Connectors
  • Четене: Being polite in Japanese
  • Слушане: My paranoid friend
  • Речник: Business idioms 1
  • Граматика: Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Говорене: Conversations – Feeling ill
  • Revision: Material from module 2

Module 3

  • Речник: Animals
  • Граматика: Comparatives and superlatives
  • Четене: Jamie Oliver
  • Слушане: Young at heart
  • Речник: Collocations with prepositions
  • Граматика: Indirect questions
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Писане: Informal letters
  • Revision: Material from module 3

Module 4

  • Речник: Clothes and clothing
  • Граматика: Future Perfect
  • Четене: Massacre at Wounded Knee
  • Слушане: A typical English summer
  • Речник: Adjective + Noun collocations
  • Граматика: Talking about the future
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Говорене: Conversations – Splitting up with your boyfriend
  • Revision: Material from module 4

Module 5

  • Речник: Confusing words 1
  • Граматика: It’s time/would rather
  • Четене: The hottest cities on earth
  • Слушане: An extract from a novel
  • Речник: Verb + Noun collocations
  • Граматика: Modal Verbs
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Писане: Formal letters – Making a complaint
  • Revision: Material from module 5

Module 6

  • Речник: Food and drink
  • Граматика: Prepositions
  • Четене: The Great Wall of China
  • Слушане: Lost in translation
  • Речник: Collocations with verbs
  • Граматика: Active and Passive voice
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Говорене: Conversations – Describing accidents
  • Revision: Material from module 6

Module 7

  • Речник: Jobs and occupations
  • Граматика: Reported Speech
  • Четене: Shakespeare’s life
  • Слушане: BBC World News
  • Речник: Confusing Words
  • Граматика: Past Perfect
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Писане: Academic essays
  • Revision: Material from module 7

Module 8

  • Речник: Travel and holidays
  • Граматика: Inversion
  • Четене: The rise of tourism in Asia
  • Слушане: A tourist guide’s advice
  • Речник: Adjective + Verb collocations
  • Граматика: Conditionals
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Говорене: Conversations – Talking about travel experiences
  • Revision: Material from module 8

Module 9

  • Речник: Education and learning
  • Граматика: Relative clauses
  • Четене: The education system in Finland
  • Слушане: A podcast on learning languages
  • Речник: Collocations with nouns
  • Граматика: Future forms (will vs going to)
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Писане: Descriptive essays
  • Revision: Material from module 9

Module 10

  • Речник: Technology and innovation
  • Граматика: Subjunctive and imperative forms
  • Четене: Advances in AI
  • Слушане: A TED talk on technological innovation
  • Речник: Business idioms 2
  • Граматика: Complex sentence structures
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Писане: Business reports
  • Revision: Material from module 10

Follow-up

Students completing the Advanced Power 120 course should feel confident in their ability to tackle further advanced studies, including preparation for advanced English exams such as the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English.