This course is for English learners that can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
This course has been revised to reflect the most recent approaches to language teaching and learning. It remains an innovative series teachers and students have grown to love, while incorporating suggestions from teachers and students all over the world. This elementary level online course offers updated content in every unit, grammar practice, and opportunities to develop speaking and listening skills. It features contemporary topics and a strong focus on both accuracy and fluency. Its successful multi-skills syllabus integrates themes, grammar, functions, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The underlying philosophy of the course remains that language is best learned when it’s used for meaningful communication.
Course Curriculum
English 2 Independent User | |||
COURSE OVERVIEW | 00:30:00 | ||
Where did you learn to skate? | 00:02:00 | ||
Past Tense | 00:15:00 | ||
Listening: Life as an Immigrant | 00:15:00 | ||
Childhood Memories | 00:18:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Used to | 00:10:00 | ||
How have you changed? | 00:15:00 | ||
Used to | 00:18:00 | ||
Reading: Drew Barrymore | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 1: A | 00:10:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 1: B | 00:15:00 | ||
Transportation Compound Nouns | 00:18:00 | ||
Perspectives: Transportation Services | 00:10:00 | ||
Expressions of quantity | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Singapore solves it. | 00:10:00 | ||
Conversation: Could you tell me …? | 00:05:00 | ||
Indirect questions from Wh-questions | 00:15:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Syllable Stress | 00:12:00 | ||
Reading: New Ways of Getting Around | 00:12:00 | ||
Listening: Celebrity Interview | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 2: A | 00:18:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 2: B | 00:12:00 | ||
Houses and Apartments | 00:20:00 | ||
Which would you prefer? | 00:18:00 | ||
Evaluations and comparisons | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Unpronounced vowels | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Capsule Hotels | 00:18:00 | ||
Conversation: Making Changes | 00:04:00 | ||
Wish | 00:08:00 | ||
Reading: Three Bad Habits | 00:15:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 3: A | 00:15:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 3: B | 00:15:00 | ||
Conversation: Have you ever …? | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Consonant Clusters | 00:15:00 | ||
Simple past vs. present perfect | 00:18:00 | ||
Listening: What are they talking about? | 00:06:00 | ||
Perspectives: Family Cookbook Part 1 | 00:18:00 | ||
Perspectives: Family Cookbook Part 2 | 00:20:00 | ||
Sequence Adverbs | 00:12:00 | ||
Listening: Tempting Snacks | 00:18:00 | ||
Reading: Food & Mood | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: I really need a change! | 00:05:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 4: A | 00:20:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 4: B: A | 00:20:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 4: B: B | 00:20:00 | ||
Conversation: What are you going to do? | 00:06:00 | ||
Future with be going to and will | 00:20:00 | ||
Travel Planning | 00:18:00 | ||
Modals for necessity and suggestion | 00:08:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Linked sounds with /w/ and /y/ | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Tourist Tips | 00:08:00 | ||
Reading: Volunteer Travel | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 5: A | 00:20:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 5: B | 00:12:00 | ||
Conversation: Turn down the TV! | 00:08:00 | ||
Two-part verbs; will for responding to requests | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Stress in two-part verbs | 00:10:00 | ||
Household Chores | 00:12:00 | ||
Listening: Family life | 00:08:00 | ||
Perspectives: Reasonable requests? | 00:08:00 | ||
Requests with modals and Would you mind…? | 00:08:00 | ||
Reading: How to ask for a favor | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Summer Plans | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 6: A | 00:18:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 6: B | 00:20:00 | ||
Invention of Everyday Objects | 00:07:00 | ||
Infinitives and gerunds for uses and purposes | 00:08:00 | ||
Conversation: I give up! | 00:03:00 | ||
The World of Computers | 00:15:00 | ||
Imperatives and infinitives for giving suggestions | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Good Suggestions | 00:06:00 | ||
Reading: Modern-Day Treasure Hunters | 00:10:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 7: A | 00:15:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 7: B | 00:18:00 | ||
Collocations | 00:08:00 | ||
Special Day | 00:08:00 | ||
Relative clauses of time | 00:08:00 | ||
Listening: Carnaval Time | 00:08:00 | ||
Conversation: Wedding Day | 00:03:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Stress and Rhythm | 00:15:00 | ||
Adverbial clauses of time | 00:08:00 | ||
Customs around the world | 00:06:00 | ||
Listening: Marriage Customs | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 8: A | 00:18:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 8: B | 00:10:00 | ||
Conversation: That’s progress! | 00:02:00 | ||
Time Contrasts | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Intonation in statements with time phrases | 00:06:00 | ||
Perspectives: Take the good with the bad | 00:20:00 | ||
Conditional sentences with if clauses | 00:10:00 | ||
Consequences | 00:08:00 | ||
Reading: Are you in Love? | 00:06:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 9: A | 00:22:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 9: B | 00:20:00 | ||
Conversation: I need a job! | 00:03:00 | ||
Gerunds; short responses | 00:10:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Unreleased and released /t/ and /d/ | 00:00:00 | ||
Listening: Job Hunting | 00:12:00 | ||
Personality Traits: Part 1 | 00:12:00 | ||
Personality Traits: Part 2 | 00:08:00 | ||
Clauses with because | 00:10:00 | ||
Reading: Find the Job That’s Right for You! | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Good or Bad? | 00:10:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 10: A | 00:20:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 10: B | 00:12:00 | ||
The Empire State Building | 00:10:00 | ||
Passive with by (simple past) | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: The letter o | 00:12:00 | ||
Local Industry | 00:05:00 | ||
I need some information | 00:10:00 | ||
Passive without by (simple present) | 00:06:00 | ||
Listening: Columbia | 00:04:00 | ||
A Guide to Unusual Museums | 00:12:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 11: A | 00:12:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 11: B | 00:15:00 | ||
What Happened? | 00:10:00 | ||
Past continuous vs. simple past | 00:18:00 | ||
Listening: Lucky Breaks | 00:08:00 | ||
Storytelling | 00:10:00 | ||
Conversation: What have you been doing? | 00:06:00 | ||
Present perfect continuous | 00:15:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Contrastive stress in responses | 00:05:00 | ||
Reading: From the Streets to the Screen | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: Facts about Spain | 00:14:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 12: A | 00:22:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 12: B | 00:22:00 | ||
Conversation: What’s playing? | 00:04:00 | ||
Participles as adjectives | 00:18:00 | ||
Opinions | 00:15:00 | ||
Listening: How did you like it? | 00:08:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Emphatic stress | 00:10:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 13: A | 00:15:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 13: B | 00:22:00 | ||
Conversation: Have you met Raj? | 00:02:00 | ||
Feelings & Gestures | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Pitch | 00:10:00 | ||
Permission, Obligation, and Prohibition | 00:15:00 | ||
What’s that sign | 00:12:00 | ||
Listening: What’s in a sign? | 00:15:00 | ||
Reading: Pearls of Wisdom | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: That’s how I feel! Part 1 | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: That’s how I feel! Part 2 | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 14: A | 00:08:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 14: B | 00:10:00 | ||
Conversation: If I found $750,000… | 00:02:00 | ||
Unreal conditional sentences with if clauses | 00:14:00 | ||
Listening: Tough Predicaments | 00:10:00 | ||
Antonyms | 00:10:00 | ||
Past modals | 00:10:00 | ||
Reduction of have | 00:10:00 | ||
Good Advice | 00:15:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 15: A | 00:20:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 15: B | 00:12:00 | ||
Who said it? | 00:15:00 | ||
Reported speech: Requests | 00:15:00 | ||
Verb and noun pairs | 00:12:00 | ||
Conversation: Are you doing anything on Saturday? | 00:10:00 | ||
Listening: He said, she said | 00:10:00 | ||
Reported speech: statements | 00:12:00 | ||
Pronunciation: Reduction of had and would | 00:12:00 | ||
Lying, the Truth About | 00:15:00 | ||
Listening: Take a message. | 00:12:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 16: A | 00:15:00 | ||
Grammar Quiz Unit 16: B | 00:12:00 | ||
Congratulations | 00:00:00 |
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