English: All Skills

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Intermediate 2 - B1/B2

This course includes activities to develop your skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening. You will grow your vocabulary and improve your grammar. You will be able to manage social and practical situations with your improving English language skills.

Start your program in Tell Me More English: All Skills, Proficient - B1. Our first lesson is Unit 11 in this learning program.

Unit 11. Correspondence

• Learn vocabulary for writing letters, tools, equipment, etc.
• Vocabulary. Greetings and closings for letters, school and education.
• Grammar. Verbs expressing a wish to act.
• (2:38)

Unit 13. Banks and ATMs

• Learn how to ask for help with a problem at the bank.
• Vocabulary. Banking, credit, finance.
• Grammar. Passive voice, present conditional.
• (2:27)

Unit 14. Paying a Bill

• Learn to talk about different ways of paying for things.
• Vocabulary. Banking, finance, measures.
• Grammar. Past subjunctive, "to let."
• (2:40)

Congratulations! You are now ready to advance to the next level in your training program. Return to your TMM Homepage and click on the "My Training" tab to switch to the Language Program, English: All Skills, Advanced - B2." Then continue your course with the following lessons.

Unit 1. Living in America

• Talk about your daily life: where you live, your job and your hobbies.
  
• Vocabulary. Professions, education, ability
  
• Grammar. Dependent clauses with "that," "to be likely," omission of some prepositions.
  
• (2:41)

Unit 2. Cultural Exercises (0:14)

Unit 3. Seeing the USA

• Discuss transportation, pastimes and daily life.
  
• Vocabulary. Greetings, polite address, family life, public and air transportation.
  
• Grammar. Uses of "so," "which" and "what," telling how - means
  
• (2.02)

Unit 4. The Post Office

• Learn to ask questions and talk about prices, addresses and posting letters and packages.
  
• Vocabulary. Correspondence, schedules, prices, delivery.
  
• Grammar. Expressing quantity with "few," "a few" and "many"; "to be interested in."
  
• (2:37)

Unit 5. Seminar Planning

• Be able to discuss renting space, prices, numbers of persons, dates.
  
• Vocabulary. Greetings, polite requests, expressing needs, scheduliing.
  
• Grammar. The perfect conditional, infinitive clause, "to be left," "to have left."
  
• (2:55)

Unit 6. Insurance and Banking

• Use terms related to insurance and banking.
  
• Vocabulary. Law and justice, buying and selling, banking and corporate life.
  
• Grammar. Invariable cardinal numbers, expressing small quantities with "little," "a little" and large quantities with "much," the main pospositions.
  
• (2:29)