This free online English course helps students improve their grammar and reading skills by learning about small talk. This course introduces English students to the essential vocabulary often used in small talk. After you've mastered these new words, you'll put them into sentences and discover when and how to use grammatical rules like modals of obligation, conclusion, deduction, and 'tag questions' to enhance your abilities. We recommend this course for those who want further progress in English and to learn additional basic skills.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195545 |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Recognize common phrases, vocabulary, and topics used when making small talk • Compare the differences between ‘must’ and ‘have to’ and learn their negative forms as modals of obligation • Discuss modals of deduction • Explain the differences between the modals of conclusion • Identify ‘tag questions’ and their correct forms and two different intonations • Distinguish between negative and affirmative ‘tag questions’ • Summarize how to answer ‘tag questions’ and identify common mistakes |
| Course Code | 4985 |
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