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