Our Intermediate English courses provide users with a unique audio-learning English experience. This approach will "pump" listening and help to cope with phonetic difficulties in pronunciation. The program provides a language base that will allow you to pass an interview, write an application, draw up a resume and even read an unadapted text.

Our English courses "for advanced" are accompanied by interesting exercises for the development of different skills - students will be able to replenish their vocabulary with a couple of thousand more words, learn a few more verb tenses and passive voice, read a lot of texts and write dictations. Listening to English speech is at least 50% of the training time.

❶ You have already learned English at school, in courses, via Skype or at a university, but you do not have confidence in your knowledge;

❷ You feel a language barrier, despite a good vocabulary and knowledge of grammar;

❸ You confuse grammatical structures, use many words incorrectly;

❹ Possess a meager active vocabulary of up to 1000 words.

Fluency in English opens many doors and new opportunities. People learn pre-intermediate level of English in order to communicate, read books in the original, travel and feel comfortable anywhere in the world.

If you like this feeling of freedom, now you can expand your horizons and learn English online to improve the knowledge you have previously learned. Thanks to audio texts with subtle humor, you can easily master the grammar and be able to replenish your vocabulary. At the same time, the perception of sounding speech, the correct pronunciation of words and entire structures are honed, writing and translation skills are trained.

Training with a course "Intermediate - Pre-intermediate" will bring, in addition to benefits, great pleasure!

What does the course include?

The course "Intermediate - Pre-intermediate" consists of 46 lessons. This is not just an English course for beginners, but a comprehensive methodology. Lessons are arranged according to the principle “from simple to complex”. You gradually immerse yourself in new topics and very soon feel the result. After completing this course, you begin a deeper study of the language.

Each lesson includes 5 interactive exercises. They are aimed at improving basic skills: listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, translation and correct pronunciation. One lesson a day allows you to improve knowledge. You will notice progress as you go through the training, you will feel a surge of energy and a desire to continue moving towards your goal. Feel how much easier it becomes to write, read and speak!

Grammar load. You will learn the most common tenses English verb. Group tenses are actively used in the course Simple, Present Continuous and Present Perfect. In some lessons there are constructions with a passive voice. You will get to know English participle and gerund. Learn to build conditional sentences correctly. Continue learning modal verbs. Consolidate the knowledge gained at the initial stage.

As a lexical load in the course "Intermediate - Pre-intermediate" are given 1500-2000 most frequently used words. You will learn word forms, some idioms and phrasal verbs. Practice listening and pronunciation more compound words the simulator, which you can also find on our website, will help.

After completing Pre-intermediate training, you will be able to replenish your vocabulary by at least 600 new words. Learning English is methodologically structured in such a way that you gradually enrich your vocabulary, as well as memorize the use and spelling of words in different speech situations. Each lesson is additional words in the piggy bank of your vocabulary.

We recommend that you devote at least 30 minutes a day. This time will be enough to learn all the necessary material. Regular practice is the key to success. Complete the "Intermediate - PRE-INTERMADIATE" course, doing 30 minutes daily! And keep learning English language with Lim-English in a format that is comfortable for you!

Course objectives: to listen to English and understand it

Deepen your knowledge of basic conversational topics

You already know a lot, but something is missing for you to start active communication? The main goal of the "Intermediate - PRE-INTERMEDIATE" course is immersion in new topics. You will learn to understand announcements in public places, labels on products. You will be able to write personal letters or postcards, read and retell short texts. You will learn to express your thoughts and opinions on various issues.

Improve knowledge of grammar

Is your speech boring and monotonous? Until you learn how to use new, more complex grammatical structures - passive voice, modal verbs, conditional sentences, and more - it's hard to talk about developing language skills. Therefore, in this course, examples of more complex structures are considered, the knowledge of which will give you confidence and greatly diversify your speech.

Comprehensive Skills Training

The uniqueness of the teaching method in Lim-English is that in each lesson all the necessary skills for knowledge of the English language are trained. Unlike many courses, our English courses train listening comprehension as well as writing, reading, translation, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Only complex training makes training effective.

What will you get with an Intermediate English course?

Recognition of new grammatical categories.

At this level, many simple rules already mastered and well-practiced, it's time for more difficult topics - passive voice, conditional sentences and modal verbs. These and some other topics are among the 46 lessons with English voice acting.

Improving speaking and writing skills.

Pre-intermediate level of English assumes speech skills higher than at the so-called "survival level". Therefore, the methodologists during the lessons deepen the knowledge of students on standard topics and include in the study some more rare topics and expressions to them. The course will be a real gift for those who want to not only practice writing, but also listen to English in order to work with phonetic aspects.

An integrated approach to skills development.

During the course, students take more than 40 lessons, and each such lesson is not just a rule with examples, but also a set of exercises with which you can practice writing, speaking, listening, reading, and the same task trains at once 2 or 3 skills.

Well "Intermediate - Pre-intermediate" - this is what will help you!

How to take the course?

The first step for a novice student is registration on the resource. Next, we recommend taking a test that compares your expectations and real skills.

If the results confirm that you need Pre-intermediate, choose it and start listening to English in parallel with its unusual phonetic system and complete the tasks proposed by the authors. They are aimed at developing several skills at once, none of them will be forgotten.

Can I take this course?

Course Difficulty Level:
MIDDLE

To take an English language course for the intermediate level, beginner or intermediate knowledge of English is required. This course is for those who already have basic knowledge and want to move on. Feel free to start training, and the result will not keep you waiting!

Recently we wrote about the best sites for listening in English, who have not read it yet, we advise you to read: 6 Best Sites for English Listening. Today we will add another wonderful site to this list. It is also great for those who do tasks in listening, ranging from levelelementary, including levelspre— intermediate, intermediate. There are materials for the level upper— intermediate.

This is about British Council website, more precisely - in its section for learners of English. Here's a link: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en(will open in a new tab or window). By the way, there is also a separate section for those who are preparing for IELTS, but more on that below.

What is good about this site? What useful materials can be found there? That's what we'll talk about today. But first - about the language itself, in which the site "speaks". This is mainly British English, plus some audio material, where the speakers are “non-local people”, that is, regional accents (from Far East before South America and Australia). But the classic British version of English clearly dominates the site. Therefore, those who need just such an "English" - pay special attention;)

Most audio clips have lyrics. This allows you to use the materials as you please: even with text, even without it, or - alternating different options. In addition, many audio clips have special tasks. They check the understanding of the text and help memorize words, phrases.

Now - about the sections of the site.

Large section - Listen& watch Just what you need for listening practice. The materials there are very diverse:

• Elementary Podcasts- audio materials specifically for the elementary level. The program has existed since April 2008, every month a new audio clip is added there. You can listen online and perform exercises and tasks directly on the site, or download audio in mp3 format. There you can also view or download the script (text) for the audio clip (you need to use the "Instructions & downloads" link just below the window with the player.
• Big city small World- "soap opera" in audio format. The style of speech is colloquial, several easy-to-remember characters, each episode is about 5-8 minutes long. There are tasks and text for each series.
• Word on the Street everyday English in different everyday situations. The difference from the two previous programs: there is not only audio, but also video (usually 3-4 minutes). The characters move to different parts of London and other English cities. The text is not for all videos, but for most. Plus tasks.
• Magazine – articles on the most different topics read by speakers. Themes are very different, from Halloween and rainforests to social problems. The duration of the sound is on average from 3 to 7 minutes. The language is literary (magazine, book), the type of audio clip is most often a monologue. Suitable for listening levels from approx. intermediate and higher.
• Stories& Poems is a very useful section. English poetry (for example, Kipling's poems) sounds rather unusual for beginners: different rhythms and intonations are very well felt, this is an excellent exercise. Well, you'll also enjoy it, of course.
• Talk about- monologues of the most different people on a variety of topics. There is a lot of English with regional accents (immigrants from China, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, etc.). No need to be afraid to "pick up" the wrong or "inauthentic" pronunciation. Firstly, you will listen to different materials, and not just this rubric, so you don’t have to worry about pronunciation. Secondly, listening skills develop well if you often listen to a wide variety of English speech: the ear will quickly learn to distinguish between accents and catch the general. Thirdly, it is interesting and useful to listen to how your “colleagues” speak English, who also learn this language, just like you.
• Overcooked, How to…, UK Culture- the rest of the headings of this large section. We will not describe them in detail, be sure to look there yourself.

Another fairly large section - business & Work– excellent materials, very useful for developing listening skills. The main difference from the section Listen& watch in that the topics here are mainly related to work, career, professions, business communication, etc. The vocabulary here is more diverse and "adult". For level Upper— intermediate will be just right, you can try on intermediate if you have a good vocabulary (I remind you, I mean listening levels, not your grammar-reading-speech levels, these are not the same - see below). FAQ). The section has sections:

• Professionals Podcasts- everything that is written above about the section itself fully applies to the rubric. Speech - monologues or dialogues, the level of complexity is suitable for listening levels intermediate, Upper— intermediate.
• You’ re hired- business English. Topic - hiring, selection of candidates for the company. The videos are short (audio + video), there are scripts and tasks.
• business Magazine- there are no materials for listening, only texts (articles on the topic of career, professional growth etc.). They differ from ordinary unadapted articles in magazines and websites by a slightly more “strict” vocabulary, well, and special tasks, of course.

And a quick run through the other sections of the site for English learners.

Useful section Grammar & Vocabulary– not so much for listening, but for Grammar and your Vocabulary 😉

Chapter Fun & Games- yes, there is such a thing. There are collected useful for students English games, jokes and other entertainment.

Chapter IELTS- the name speaks for itself. The section is relatively new, while there are few materials there. But new ones are gradually being added, so if you are going to take this exam, look, just in case, there too. Now the section already contains unequivocally useful materials about the features of forms for listening (listening) on IELTS.

I think this brief "excursion" is enough to orient in general terms. Along the way, you will probably come across other interesting materials on the British Council website (for example, there is a special section for children, a section for English teachers, etc.)

At the moment, there are already a great many different audio courses designed to be listened to in the car.

Leaving aside the question of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of this technique, we have compiled for you a selection of several such audio materials. Listen and improve your English on the way to work.

Before you download this or that course, we highly recommend that you at least briefly understand what English audio courses are in a car, what you can expect from them, and what you should not.

Let's start with the fact that, in our opinion, such audio courses can never replace a full-fledged teaching of the English language. Let's be honest, in our teaching practice we have not yet met a single person who would learn to speak English only by listening to such courses in the car on the way to work.

"Classes" in English according to this method are severely limited by several obvious factors.

Firstly, due to objective reasons, you cannot concentrate 100% on learning English, because forced to drive a car in parallel, assess the situation on the roads, etc. Therefore, from time to time you will be forced to “get out” of the process for a couple of minutes and then return to the material you listened to again.

Secondly, by doing this, you activate only one of several channels for perceiving information, namely, the auditory one. That is, even when you hear a word, you don’t know how it is spelled, you don’t see its transcription, and you probably won’t be able to write it on paper without errors later. This no longer allows us to talk about an adequate process of learning a language.

Let it not seem to you that we are only opponents of such courses. It must be admitted that the methodology of English courses in a car has its undeniable advantages:

1) You can listen to the material every day for at least 30-60 minutes, without additional organization of time for classes. It's objectively convenient.

2) Listening to the material several times in the car, you willy-nilly begin to memorize it. The material is, as it were, recorded in the subcortex of your brain.

Practice shows that the most effective result from such courses can be obtained in addition to basic English education at a language school or with a teacher (such training should be basic anyway!).

That is, going through a topic with a teacher, you then fix it by listening in the car. In this case, at certain system classes, a good result is guaranteed.

Here is a selection of some of these courses that can help you learn the language. Go ahead, try it, download it to your flash drives, listen. Perhaps for you it will become an indispensable support in English classes.

1) 1C. Driving English (audio course)

1C English driving - Part 1

1C - English driving - Part 2

One reader of the Lingualeo blog came up with a cool idea - to write an article with interesting audio recordings in English for beginners. We immediately included it in the plan.

The reason for this haste: we, that it is important to devote time to developing listening skills, to regularly practice understanding English speech. But they also wrote that you need to use audio of your level, where ≈ 80% of the vocabulary is understandable.

Therefore, we have put together simple podcasts and dialogues so that beginners have training materials.

Audio: English for beginners listen online for free

Our article includes 10 audio files for English levels from beginner to pre-intermediate. After listening to recordings of simple dialogues from typical life situations, you will learn to understand English by ear and remember useful phrases to keep the conversation going.

1. Humble Beginnings, or Listening in English for “first graders”

A trip abroad is approaching, but you have not yet begun to teach english alphabet? Does the conversation of foreigners resemble continuous noise with rare fragments of familiar words? Short dialogues from englishspeak.com will help you introduce yourself in English and tell about yourself.

Conclusion: English texts with audio for beginners

We have shared cool listening materials in English, now it's up to you! We prescribe 15 minutes of listening to English speech daily with a gradual increase in difficulty - and success in conquering the English language is guaranteed (if you try the same way in reading, speaking and writing, of course).

By the way, useful information about “pumping” other skills: we have already written, as well as compiled a selection of books for and, shared a list of and talked about the best ways to learn and.

If you also have a topic for a blog article - write in the comments! We will fulfill your wish. 🙂 Bye!

Why is English needed? There may be many answers. For work or travel, professional growth or expansion of consciousness. Speaking of "fluent English" or "good English" we mean a well-developed ability to communicate in English. And successful communication is impossible if only you speak.

The interlocutor expects from you that you will listen and hear. But those who study English as a foreign language often face difficulty in listening to the speech of foreigners. Your interlocutor will not have good diction, a slow pace of speech and a clear pronunciation without fail. In addition, he may speak with a strange accent and use slang words. It is not easy to understand such an interlocutor. But you can do this if you improve your ability to perceive English information by ear in advance.

We offer a selection of podcasts by levels for pumping this skill

For Elementary/A1

• - a resource for listening from the British Council
• Audio English- with the help of the resource you can improve not only listening, but also grammar with pronunciation
• DynEd's Podcast– short podcasts of 10 minutes each, high quality of lecturers’ diction

For Pre-Intermediate/A2

• - a standard (one might even say classic) listening training course from the Air Force.
• is an American resource where you can easily find Learning English Broadcast. Practice listening to American English
• - on this resource you will find materials on different types pronunciation

For Intermediate/B1

• - materials from the BBC, interesting videos of 6 minutes each
• – podcast by British English teacher Luke Thompson, the author discusses great amount interesting topics in English
• – English-language news that will help you improve your English and new information discover

For Upper-Intermediate/B2

• - Author's podcast by British English teacher Jade Joddle. Interesting Listening Materials
• – news from the UK
• - a resource of two American women, teachers of English. On the resource you will find many materials, including those for developing listening skills.

For Advanced/С1

• - the resource will provide you with a choice of audio tests for passing IELTS.
• – to improve business English
• - for lovers of poetry
• – an English-language resource for mathematicians