Vocabulary Booster Intermediate

Introduction

Vocabulary Booster Intermediate is an online course, consisting of 40 units of English, and providing approximately 50 hours of study for students.

Course aims

To give students at Intermediate, CEFR B1 level practice in the lexical areas required at this level, enabling them to recognise and correctly select the vocabulary required at this level, within specific lexical areas. In addition to general vocabulary building, the course aims to help students with word groups, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and opposites within the same lexical family, providing a shortcut to a larger vocabulary. The course also covers phrasal verbs to improve knowledge of non-literal meanings.

Students can also combine this course with our other similar courses:

  • Grammar Box
  • Listen Up
  • Reading Skills
  • Pronunciation Portal

Unit summary

Module 1

  • Adjective order
  • Animals
  • Phrasal verbs 1
  • At the airport
  • Character and mood
  • Wordbuilding 01
  • Clothes
  • Things in the bathroom
  • Revision Unit 1

Module 2

  • Containers
  • Describing hair
  • Phrasal verbs 2
  • Energy
  • Feeling ill
  • Wordbuilding 02
  • Jobs and professions
  • Film and literature genres
  • Revision Unit 2

Module 3

  • Things in the bedroom
  • Musical instruments
  • Phrasal verbs 3
  • Numbers
  • Parts of the body
  • Wordbuilding 03
  • Parts of the house
  • Places in a city
  • Revision Unit 3

Module 4

  • Positive adjectives
  • Prefixes: creating opposites
  • Phrasal verbs 4
  • Shapes and dimensions
  • Shops
  • Wordbuilding 04
  • Talking about jobs
  • Talking about studying
  • Revision Unit 4

Module 5

  • Technology in the home
  • Transport verbs
  • Phrasal verbs 5
  • Using your brain
  • Verbs connected with the eyes
  • Wordbuilding 05
  • Verbs of eating and drinking
  • Verbs connected with the mouth
  • Revision Unit 5

Follow-up

Students completing the Vocabulary Booster Intermediate course could:

  • Move on to the next level of this course series: Vocabulary Booster Upper Intermediate.
  • Choose one of our other skills-specific courses, such as Grammar Box, Listen Up, Reading Skills, or Pronunciation Portal.
  • Study one of our general English improvement courses, such as Complete, Upper Intermediate Power, Focus on B2 First, or Upper Intermediate Business Power.
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