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.
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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Understanding Science and attributes of a good Scientist or an Engineer: What is science? The philosophy of a scientist. The philosophy of reasoning. The logic behind ideas and the ideas behind the logic. Inspiring quotes by scientists. Funny anecdotes.
“Small” is the future & Nanotechnology: Anecdotes about scientists. Words of wisdom. Scientific quotes. Developments in science and technology. The shift towards nano machines.
The future as we see it: Consequences of our own actions. Future prospects and latest avenues in science and technology. Weapons of tomorrow. Truths about science. Opinions and views. Need for more development. Insurmountable progress. Science for people. Science for peace.
Biotechnology, Cloud Computing, Fuel cells: Rapid developments in the field of research. Modern applications. Scientific basics. Ethics and human values. The moralities of a scientist.
The world at its best - NASA, Space & Applications: Modern weaponry. Modern medicine and existing scientific wonders. Future promises. Unraveling the unknown. The history of science. Interesting and intriguing anecdotes.
Trying to answer the unanswerable:
Imagination stretched beyond limits. Technological development and advancements. The answers to today’s problems. What questions to tackle tomorrow? Scientific reasoning and thinking.
A peek in the past: The “why” behind the “how”. The history of science. The reasons for what “is”. The stories surrounding scientists. Amazing facts about machines and tools. Anecdotes about scientists. Anecdotes about science.
The good & the evil of science: Bragging about accomplishments and displaying resources. Amazing facts about the living world. Judgment and judicious use of the power created. The worse that can come and the best that is left behind. Many ways to look at the same thing. Moral issues and ever increasing responsibilities.
Around the World: The wars fought through centuries. The power of might and the might of power. Stories about some of the greatest men in history. Entertainment and glamour. Interesting facts about people and places.
Principles put to the test: Improvising on perfection. Testing new waters. Watching the world through different eyes. Many facets of the same diamond. The truth about science. Explaining scientific philosophy. Trying to reason out things and explain them bit by bit. With great power comes great responsibility.
Of bombs, guns and doctors: The need for complete scientific know how. The daily struggle for existence. Technologies – new today but old tomorrow. Morals and ethics of scientists. Neutrality of science. The gray shades of science. The power that lies untapped.
(The above science and technology 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.) |