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.
Gramatika
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.
Žodynas
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
- Žodynas: Adjectives of character
- Gramatika: Articles
- Skaitymas: Been there, done that
- Klausymasis: Bad dreams
- Žodynas: Adjective and noun collocations 2
- Gramatika: Causative Have and Get
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
- Rašymas: Formal letters
- Revision: Material from module 1
Module 2
- Žodynas: Adjectives of mood
- Gramatika: Conjunctions and Connectors
- Skaitymas: Being polite in Japanese
- Klausymasis: My paranoid friend
- Žodynas: Business idioms 1
- Gramatika: Gerunds and Infinitives
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
- Kalbėjimas: Conversations – Feeling ill
- Revision: Material from module 2
Module 3
- Žodynas: Animals
- Gramatika: Comparatives and superlatives
- Skaitymas: Jamie Oliver
- Klausymasis: Young at heart
- Žodynas: Collocations with prepositions
- Gramatika: Indirect questions
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
- Rašymas: Informal letters
- Revision: Material from module 3
Module 4
- Žodynas: Clothes and clothing
- Gramatika: Future Perfect
- Skaitymas: Massacre at Wounded Knee
- Klausymasis: A typical English summer
- Žodynas: Adjective + Noun collocations
- Gramatika: Talking about the future
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
- Kalbėjimas: Conversations – Splitting up with your boyfriend
- Revision: Material from module 4
Module 5
- Žodynas: Confusing words 1
- Gramatika: It’s time/would rather
- Skaitymas: The hottest cities on earth
- Klausymasis: An extract from a novel
- Žodynas: Verb + Noun collocations
- Gramatika: Modal Verbs
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
- Rašymas: Formal letters – Making a complaint
- Revision: Material from module 5
Module 6
- Žodynas: Food and drink
- Gramatika: Prepositions
- Skaitymas: The Great Wall of China
- Klausymasis: Lost in translation
- Žodynas: Collocations with verbs
- Gramatika: Active and Passive voice
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
- Kalbėjimas: Conversations – Describing accidents
- Revision: Material from module 6
Module 7
- Žodynas: Jobs and occupations
- Gramatika: Reported Speech
- Skaitymas: Shakespeare’s life
- Klausymasis: BBC World News
- Žodynas: Confusing Words
- Gramatika: Past Perfect
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
- Rašymas: Academic essays
- Revision: Material from module 7
Module 8
- Žodynas: Travel and holidays
- Gramatika: Inversion
- Skaitymas: The rise of tourism in Asia
- Klausymasis: A tourist guide’s advice
- Žodynas: Adjective + Verb collocations
- Gramatika: Conditionals
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
- Kalbėjimas: Conversations – Talking about travel experiences
- Revision: Material from module 8
Module 9
- Žodynas: Education and learning
- Gramatika: Relative clauses
- Skaitymas: The education system in Finland
- Klausymasis: A podcast on learning languages
- Žodynas: Collocations with nouns
- Gramatika: Future forms (will vs going to)
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
- Rašymas: Descriptive essays
- Revision: Material from module 9
Module 10
- Žodynas: Technology and innovation
- Gramatika: Subjunctive and imperative forms
- Skaitymas: Advances in AI
- Klausymasis: A TED talk on technological innovation
- Žodynas: Business idioms 2
- Gramatika: Complex sentence structures
- Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
- Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
- Rašymas: 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.