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In this Specialization, you will build English skills through themes that connect to everyday life, culture, and communication. Across three courses, you will expand vocabulary, practice grammar including present tenses, present perfect forms, relative clauses, conditionals, gerunds and infinitives, and active and passive voice, and strengthen reading, writing, speaking, and listening. As you progress, you will move from describing places and personal experiences to discussing health, travel, recreation, famous people, and inventions with greater accuracy and confidence.
Syllabus
- Course 1: English for Culture and Art
- Course 2: English for Health and Travel
- Course 3: English for Recreation and Famous People
Courses
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Start your next stage of English learning with themes that invite you to talk about places, culture, and personal experience. In the first module, you will build vocabulary for travel, destinations, and description while practicing present simple and present continuous in speech and writing. You will work with readings about travel destinations and create travel posts and short video presentations about monuments, places you have visited, and your own experiences. In the second module, you will move into art and culture, learning vocabulary related to art, culture, and urban development while comparing present perfect simple with simple past and using present perfect simple and present perfect continuous to describe change. Through readings, discussions, and written and video tasks, you will describe changes in your hometown and personal life. By the end, you can discuss places and culture with more detail and use key present and present perfect forms more accurately.
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Expand the way you communicate in English by exploring topics that connect daily life with future plans. In the health module, you will learn vocabulary related to food, exercise, and well-being while practicing subject and object relative clauses. You will read health-related texts, discuss healthy food options and lifestyles in your community, and describe healthy places in your city with clearer, more connected sentences. In the travel module, you will add vocabulary for travel planning, finances, and entertainment and use the first conditional to talk about real future possibilities and the second conditional to discuss hypothetical situations. You will create video content about travel and entertainment in your country and write paragraphs about possible travel scenarios and their outcomes. By the end, you can discuss health and travel topics more precisely and express real and imagined situations with stronger control.
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Bring your English into conversations about interests, influence, and ideas that shape the world around you. In the recreation module, you will expand vocabulary for leisure and recreational activities while practicing gerunds and infinitives after verbs and prepositions. You will discuss your favorite hobbies, describe popular activities in your country, and strengthen listening and speaking through video discussions and related tasks. In the famous people module, you will learn vocabulary related to fame, industries, and inventions while refining your use of active and passive voice. Through readings, discussions, and writing, you will examine famous individuals and their contributions, describe a person you admire, and explain why important inventions matter. By the end, you can talk about recreation, people, and inventions with more variety and stronger grammatical control.
Taught by
John Deal, Director ASU Global Launch