● Maximum number of lessons: 80 lessons (please take only as many as you need) ● Target level: TOEIC 500 points ～ 690 points
▮ Main Features of the Lesson We will improve your grammatical and vocabulary skills. This lesson is designed to dramatically enhance the listening and speed reading skills necessary for boosting your score.
▮ Structure of the Lesson Course
▮ Lesson Details
● Instant English composition by looking at pictures: Find several subjects by looking at the picture, answer related actions and situations, and compose about the picture. The faster you can create grammatically and syntactically correct English sentences, the faster you will be able to understand through listening and reading. Common mistakes: ● Practice being mindful of tricky questions, such as pronunciation and word usage
● ① Enhance vocabulary that can be subjects (people, objects). Find the central figures or objects (subjects) in a photo description and describe the actions or states of the subjects. ② Learn vocabulary, actions, and expressions in situations and locations that are often tested. ● Practice further enhancing vocabulary related to actions, states, and expressions in situations and locations that are often tested
● Learn patterns of causality and problem-solving used in questions and answers/ Memorize vocabulary from categories that are often tested. ● Instantly compose sentences in English using question words after seeing the answers. ● Instantly compose sentences in English from questions to answers. ● Solve similar problems with audio.
● Enhance vocabulary used in frequently tested dialogues/paraphrasing ● Listen to dialogues with audio and grasp the main topic of the conversation. ● Instant English composition based on frequently tested conversation scenes – vocabulary and communication development skills. ● Idioms with high frequency of occurrence. ● Solve similar problems using audio from frequently tested dialogues.
● Enhance listening skills – Dictation (Practice writing by listening to 10 types of short sentences) ● Instant English composition from given assignments based on frequently occurring talks or announcements. ● Enhance vocabulary of frequently used expository text (paraphrasing & part of speech) ● Solve similar problems using audio from frequently tested narrations.
● Grammar (Intermediate Level) [ Prepositions, conjunctions, demonstratives, comparative forms, subordinating conjunctions, adjectives, notable usage of adverbs, participle adjectives, compound adjectives, basic verbs + prepositions, idioms, gerunds, infinitives, indirect speech, etc. ] ● Review Exercise – Short sentence fill-in-the-blank practice and others ● Review Exercise – Short sentence completion problems & instant English short composition ● Enhance vocabulary using frequently occurring texts ● Comprehension check with short sentence fill-in-the-blank problems ● Instant English composition to remember the role and usage of frequently used grammar
● Speed reading technique using frequently appearing texts – Skimming ● Learning important vocabulary used in frequently appearing texts ● Comprehension check of frequently used vocabulary with fill-in-the-blank problems ● Memory practice of keywords after a first reading of frequently appearing texts ● Practicing to predict content from headlines, titles of frequently appearing texts ● Simple method to distinguish parts of speech ● Frequently occurring tense problems
● Speed reading techniques using frequently appearing texts – Skimming ● Skimming 1 – Grasp the main points of the text ● Skimming 2 – Grasp the key words of the text ● Skimming 3 – Grasp the details (such as 5W) of the text ● Skimming 4 – Grasp the ‘order of events’ and ‘cause’ in the text ● Skimming 5 – Grasp the ‘form, appearance, type’ in the text ● Learn important vocabulary used in frequently appearing texts – Paraphrasing
▮ Maximum number of lessons: 50 lessons (please take only as many as you need) ▮ Target level: From beginners (around Eiken Grade 3) to TOEIC 490 points
▮ Main Features of the Lesson Strengthening basic vocabulary and grammar is the most important task. We cultivate the ability to accurately listen to and read relatively short passages.
▮ Structure of the Lesson Course
▮ Lesson Details
① Learn frequently asked expressions (actions) ② Learn about scenes in situations/places with a high tendency to be asked (Shopping mall, office, hospital, pharmacy, mechanical shop, construction, hotel, home center)
Learn basic grammar that expresses actions and states that are asked in the questions.
Instant English Composition from a Picture: Answer simple questions and write about the picture by looking at it. The faster you can create grammatically and syntactically correct English sentences, the faster your listening and reading comprehension will be.
Learn to paraphrase phrases that express actions: For one action, there are abstract expressions, use of easy words, and use of difficult words. Here, we practice changing one action or expression into another way of saying it.
Mistakable expressions:
You will listen to a short narration from the instructor and answer questions. This is a practice to be careful of tricky questions such as pronunciation and usage of phrases.
● Questions starting with interrogative words
● Questions not starting with interrogative words
● Choice questions
● Learn the adverbs used in interrogative words and answers
● Learn vocabulary in categories with a high tendency to be asked
● Instant English composition of answers from questions
● Instant English composition using interrogative words from looking at answers
● Enhance vocabulary used in frequently occurring conversations
● Remember important nouns, time, places, titles, etc. in conversations
● Solve similar questions with audio using frequently occurring conversation scenes
● Instant English composition assuming frequently occurring conversation scenes
● Enhance vocabulary used in frequently occurring explanatory text questions
● Grasp the points of the story from narrations such as phone calls and announcements, which are frequent explanatory texts
● Solve similar questions with audio using frequently occurring narrations
● Instant English composition assuming frequently occurring narrations
1. I want to eat ice cream. Alternatively, I have to eat fruits. 2. Online shopping is better instead of going to the physical shop in this kind of weather. 3. Donna, to be exact, my best friend, is getting married this weekend. 4. The explanation must be in plain English, or else everybody will be confused, and we won’t be able to execute it properly. 5. Rather than explain myself, I prepare everything and take care of it.
