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English along the Silk Roads

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English Along the Silk Roads
(A 40-Lesson Course from A1 to B2/ CEFR)

This course covers essential English communication skills at the A1, A2, B1 and B2 proficiency levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

  • Lesson 1. China (A1) — Overland — Origin. Grammar focus: Nouns (common & proper).
  • Lesson 2. Kazakhstan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they); the verb to be (am/is/are).
  • Lesson 3. Uzbekistan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Descriptive adjectives.
  • Lesson 4. Kyrgyzstan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Plural nouns (regular -s/-es; irregular forms).
  • Lesson 5. Turkmenistan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Prepositions of place (in, on, at, near, next to, between).
  • Lesson 6. Tajikistan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Demonstratives (this, that, these, those).
  • Lesson 7. Afghanistan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their) and possessive ‘s.
  • Lesson 8. Iran (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Simple present tense (regular verbs; third-person -s); negatives with don’t/doesn’t.
  • Lesson 9. Mongolia (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Frequency adverbs (always, usually, sometimes, often, never).
  • Lesson 10. Pakistan (A1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Cumulative review: nouns, pronouns, be-verb, adjectives, plurals, prepositions, simple present.
  • Lesson 11. India (A2) — Overland / Maritime hub. Grammar focus: Simple past tense — regular verbs (-ed).
  • Lesson 12. Sri Lanka (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Simple past — irregular verbs (go/went, see/saw, build/built).
  • Lesson 13. Bangladesh (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Future with going to (plans and intentions).
  • Lesson 14. Myanmar (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Future with will (predictions and spontaneous decisions).
  • Lesson 15. Thailand (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Comparative adjectives (-er / more).
  • Lesson 16. Vietnam (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Superlative adjectives (-est / most); hyphenated compound adjectives.
  • Lesson 17. Malaysia (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Modal verbs — can/can’t (ability), must/mustn’t (obligation).
  • Lesson 18. Singapore (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so).
  • Lesson 19. Indonesia (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Countable and uncountable nouns; quantifiers (some, any, much, many, a lot of).
  • Lesson 20. Maldives (A2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Imperatives; possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs); cumulative A2 review.
  • Lesson 21. Oman (B1) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Present perfect (have/has + past participle) for experience.
  • Lesson 22. Yemen (B1) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Present perfect vs. simple past; since/for; already/yet.
  • Lesson 23. Saudi Arabia (B1) — Maritime / Overland hub. Grammar focus: Passive voice (present and past simple passive).
  • Lesson 24. United Arab Emirates (B1) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Relative clauses with who/which/that (defining and non-defining).
  • Lesson 25. Iraq (B1) — Overland. Grammar focus: First conditional (if + present simple, will + base verb).
  • Lesson 26. Syria (B1) — Overland. Grammar focus: Second conditional (if + past simple, would + base verb).
  • Lesson 27. Turkey (B1) — Overland — Bridge to Europe. Grammar focus: Reported (indirect) speech — statements.
  • Lesson 28. Azerbaijan (B1) — Overland — Bridge to Europe. Grammar focus: Gerunds and infinitives (verb + -ing vs. to + verb).
  • Lesson 29. Georgia (B1) — Overland — Bridge to Europe. Grammar focus: Subordinating conjunctions (because, although, since, while).
  • Lesson 30. Armenia (B1) — Overland — Bridge to Europe. Grammar focus: Cumulative review: present perfect, passive, relative clauses, conditionals, reported speech.
  • Lesson 31. Russia (B2) — Overland — Bridge to Europe. Grammar focus: Advanced passive — modal passive and perfect passive (“has been built”, “must be seen”).
  • Lesson 32. Egypt (B2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Mixed conditionals (third conditional and mixed forms).
  • Lesson 33. Kenya (B2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Wish / if only + subjunctive mood.
  • Lesson 34. Tanzania (B2) — Maritime. Grammar focus: Participle clauses (present and past participle reducing relative or adverbial clauses).
  • Lesson 35. Italy (B2) — European Terminus. Grammar focus: Cleft sentences (It is/was … that; What … is) for emphasis.
  • Lesson 36. Greece (B2) — European Terminus. Grammar focus: Advanced relative clauses (whose; preposition + relative pronoun); nominalization.
  • Lesson 37. Portugal (B2) — European Terminus. Grammar focus: Register and style — formal vs. informal vocabulary and structures.
  • Lesson 38. Spain (B2) — European Terminus. Grammar focus: Cohesion devices — linking words (moreover, however, therefore, in addition, as a result).
  • Lesson 39. Netherlands (B2) — European Terminus. Grammar focus: Compound-complex sentences (coordination and subordination combined).
  • Lesson 40. France (B2) — European Terminus — Final Destination. Grammar focus: Capstone: full review of parts of speech, syntax, and punctuation.
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