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Functional English

Functional English from the first idea to exam level: every lesson builds on the one before, with a worked example, a step-through diagram where it helps, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know. Follows Eastwood, Oxford Practice Grammar.

Functional English at a glance

What does Functional English cover?

Parts of Speech, Tenses & Time, Listening & Presenting, Reading Comprehension, Active & Passive Voice, Punctuation & Mechanics, Paragraph Writing, Modal Verbs, Conditionals, Direct & Indirect Speech, Formal Writing & Email and Essay Writing. It follows Eastwood, Oxford Practice Grammar.

How many lessons does the Functional English course on Studious have?

13 units and 33 lessons, from "The eight parts of speech" to "Argumentative essays". Each lesson has a worked example, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know, and many have step-by-step diagrams.

Course outline

  1. Unit 1 · Week 1

    Building blocks: parts of speech

    1. The eight parts of speech
    2. Stative and action verbs
    3. Relative pronouns
    4. -ed and -ing adjectives
  2. Unit 2 · Week 2

    Talking about time

    1. Habits and things happening now
    2. Past events and experiences
    3. Plans and the future
  3. Unit 3 · Week 3

    Listening well

    1. Hearing versus listening
    2. Listening for gist and for details
  4. Unit 4 · Week 4

    Reading comprehension

    1. Skimming and scanning
    2. Inference and critical thinking
    3. Meaning from context clues
  5. Unit 5 · Week 5

    Change the voice

    1. Forming the passive
    2. Shifting the focus: when to use the passive
  6. Unit 6 · Week 6

    Writing mechanics and punctuation

    1. Capitals, full stops and commas
    2. Apostrophes, colons and semicolons
    3. Transitional devices
  7. Unit 7 · Week 7

    Paragraph writing

    1. The parts of a paragraph
    2. Unity and coherence
  8. Unit 8 · Week 9

    Modal verbs

    1. Ability, possibility and permission
    2. Obligation, necessity and advice
    3. Criticism and the past: should have, must have
  9. Unit 9 · Week 10

    Conditionals

    1. Real conditions: zero and first
    2. Unreal conditions: second and third
  10. Unit 10 · Weeks 11 and 15

    Listening and presentation skills

    1. Clarity, audibility, fluency and accuracy
    2. Structuring a short talk
  11. Unit 11 · Week 12

    Direct and indirect speech

    1. Reporting statements
    2. Reporting questions and commands
  12. Unit 12 · Week 13

    Formal and informal writing

    1. Formal versus informal
    2. Writing a professional email
  13. Unit 13 · Week 14

    Essay writing

    1. The structure of an essay
    2. Descriptive essays
    3. Argumentative essays

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