Introduction: Part of speech, vocabulary builder, major steps in acquiring commands in spoken English, American and British English.
Tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous.
Future tenses: Will, shall, going to, present continuous / present simple with future meaning, future perfect, future perfect continuous, the future seen from the past.
Modals: Should and ought to, will, would, used to may, might, can, could, be able to, must, have (got) to needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, permission, offers etc.
Linking verbs: be, appear, seem; become get etc. have and have got; have and take; do and take.
Passive: Forming passive sentences using passives, reporting with passive verbs.
Questions: Forming questions. Asking and answering negative questions.
Verbs: Infinitives, -ing forms. Verbs with and without objects.
Reporting: Reporting people’s words and thoughts. Reporting statements, offers, suggestions, orders, intentions etc.
Determiners and quantifiers: some, any, something, somebody, much, many, a lot, all, the whole, both, each, every, no, none, little etc. Quantifiers with or without ‘of’.
Relative clauses: prepositions in relative clauses, particle clauses with adverbial meaning.
Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words: Reflective pronouns, leaving out verbs with auxiliary verbs, leaving out to-infinitives.
Adjectives: position, gradable and ungradable adjectives, adjectives and adverbs, participle adjectives, prepositions after adjectives, adjectives + that clause or to-infinitive, comparison with adjectives.
Adverbs and conjunctions: Position of adverbs, adverbs of place indefinite frequency and time. Degree of adverbs: comment adverbs, viewpoint adverbs, focus adverbs. Adverbial clauses of time, giving reasons, purposes and results, contrasts: although and though; even though, in spite of. Conditional sentences connecting ideas between and within the sentences.
Prepositions: complex examples with at, in, on, across, along, over, through, above, over, below, under, between, among, by, beside, during, for, in, over, throughout, by until, except (for), besides, apart from, but for, about, with etc. Preposition after verbs, word order.
Special emphasis on the contemporary culture and spoken style.
Phrasal Verbs : Three study units and ten lessons about Phrasal Verbs. Through this program you learn more than thousand phrasal verbs.
Idioms & Phrases: Four lessons on idioms and phrases. Over one thousand idioms and phrases spread across the program.
Vocabulary Builder : Four study units and sixteen lessons dedicated to build vocabulary. Throughout this program, you build about 10,000 words. |
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Finding true love: What is love and what is romance? Romance and marriage. Memories of love. Lessons of love.
Origins of courting behavior: Evolutionary roots. Types of love. Goals and strategies. Selecting a mate. Attracting a mate. Keeping a mate. Replacing a mate. Conflict between sexes.
Romance: Initial attraction. How to get past awkward introductions. Participate in dinner conversations and bridge uncomfortable silences. Asking someone out. Dating etiquettes. How to end a date gracefully. Valentine’s Day and gifts. Kissing. Handling of sexual advances. Dating violence.
What women want in a mate? Components of desire. Economic capacity of the male. Social status. Age. Ambition and industriousness. Dependability and stability. Intelligence. Compatibility. Size and strength. Good health. Love and commitment. What happens when women have power? A modern woman’s many preferences.
What men want from a mate?
Teen age and the young adult. Standards of physical beauty. Importance of physical appearance and body shape. Men’s status and women’s beauty. Media effects on sexual thinking. Chastity and fidelity. Can women and men be “just friends”?
Casual sex: Physiological clues to sexual strategies. Orgasm. Lust. Standards for short term mates. Sexual fantasies. Perceptions of attractiveness. Sexual variations. Costs of casual sex. Favorable contexts for casual sex. Casual sex as a source of power. Are modern women more interested in casual sex?
Attracting a partner: Bragging about accomplishments and displaying resources. Displaying commitment. Displaying physical prowess. Displaying bravado and self confidence. Enhancing appearance and deceptive tactics. Displaying fidelity. Employing sexual signals.
Staying together: Benefits of mutual commitment. The functions of sexual jealousy. The consequence of jealousy. The value of fulfilling a mate’s desires. The uses of emotional manipulation. Ways to keep (love / sex) competitors at bay. Destructive mate keeping approaches. The fragile union.
Sexual conflict: The stage of contraction and betrayal. Battles between men and women and the pain they inflict on each other. Deception. Abuse. Sexual harassment. Rape.
Braking up: Psychological mechanisms. Infidelity. Infertility. Sexual withdrawal. Lack of economic support. Conflict among multiple partners. Cruelty and unkindness. Implications for a lasting relationship.
Definition of success: A level of social status, achievement of an objective (goal) or just as an opposite of failure.
The Wheel of Life: Success in career, personal growth, health, romance, money, fun and recreation, friends / family and physical environments.
(Above love & romance related topics are used to illustrate various English structures and usages across this interactive learning program. The usage is purely based on the relevance and context and are not sequential or in the above order.)
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