Vocabulary Booster Upper Intermediate

Introduction

Vocabulary Booster Upper 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 Upper Intermediate, CEFR B2 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

Adjectives of character and mood
Visual arts
Phrasal verbs 1
Clothes
Animals
Wordbuilding 01
Confusing Words 1
Where people work
Revision Unit 1

Module 2

Crimes and criminalshings in the bedroom
Phrasal verbs 2
Feeling ill
Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
Verbs connected with cooking
Confusing Words 2
Wordbuilding 02
Revision Unit 2

Module 3

Household chores
Jobs and professions
Phrasal verbs 3
Things in the kitchen
Parts of the body
Shops
Confusing Words 3
Wordbuilding 03
Revision Unit 3

Module 4

Transport
Things in the living room
Phrasal verbs 4
Verbs connected with cooking
Verbs of hitting
Verbs of speaking
Confusing Words 4
Wordbuilding 04
Revision Unit 4

Module 5

Words connected with sleep
Geography
Phrasal verbs 5
How clean is it?
Law and order
Negative adjectives
Confusing Words 5
Wordbuilding 05
Revision Unit 5

Follow-up

Students completing the Vocabulary Booster Upper Intermediate course could:

Move on to the next level of this course series: Vocabulary Booster Advanced.
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, Advanced Power, Focus on C1 Advanced, or Advanced Business Power.