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