English Intermediate lessons - course 80,400 rub. from Skyeng, training 50 hours, date November 28, 2023.

1. Your time
You will learn: how to cope with stress and fatigue in different countries, how the 21st century has changed hobbies, how charity makes people happy and how to make useful contacts and new friends.
You will learn to: talk about your tastes and interests, how you like to spend your time, give advice and ask questions.
You will be able to: build a balance between work and rest, give a short monologue about the traditions of free time in the country, present an organization or idea.
Lessons in the section:

• The art of rest
• Work-life balance (optional)
• 21st-century hobbies
• Charity for happiness (optional)

2. Holidays
You will learn: about people who spend their lives traveling, about food in different parts of the world and gastrotourism, about new ways to celebrate traditional holidays.
You will learn to: make assumptions, talk about your expectations, say how much you like or dislike something.
You can: prepare for travel, plan an unusual holiday and organize a challenge.
Lessons in the section:
•Modern nomads
• Gastro-tourism (optional)
•Upgraded holidays
• How to survive family holidays (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

3. Families
You will learn: about “parental control”, about families in different countries, ways of dating.
You will learn to: discuss problems with a psychologist, understand information in texts at several levels of depth, tell how your family and its history influenced you.
You will be able to: express your views on problems in family relationships, formulate an opinion on methods of dating.
Lessons in the section:
• Parental control
• Family dynasty (optional)
•Modern families
• Love is, love was (optional)

4. Big data
You will learn about digital footprints, DNA tests, unusual foods from different countries and popular nutrition myths.
You will learn to: politely refuse unwanted food.
You will be able to: analyze how safe your profile is on social networks, refute myths about nutrition, ask about dishes in detail.
Lessons in the section:
• Digital trail
• DNA testing (optional)
• Food myths
• No way can you eat this! (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

5. Healthy body, healthy mind
You will learn: why sports can be dangerous and how best to keep yourself in shape.
You will see the pros and cons of professional sports and understand why the body positive movement is so popular.
You will learn to: describe appearance, talk about training and physical activity, discuss the dangers or benefits of plastic surgery.
You will be able to: understand and discuss simple podcasts, tell stories about famous people and outstanding athletes.
Lessons in the section:
• You can be too healthy
• Professional sports (optional)
•Body positivity
• Changing body (optional)

6. Influence
You will learn: about responsible shopping, manipulative marketing strategies, advertising that we don’t notice.
You will learn to: support or reject ideas, refute inaccurate information, analyze and describe simple diagrams.
You will be able to: avoid marketing pitfalls, give shopping advice, promote a brand or product.
Lessons in the section:
• Be trendier, shop less
• Internet — a wise manipulator (optional)
• Advertising you don’t notice
• The power of influencers (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

7. Have you got what it takes?
You will learn: about the skills needed for the professions of the future, about emotional intelligence and how to develop, about the characteristics of different generations (millennials, generations X, Y and Z) and how to promote myself.
You will learn to: give advice on promotion, describe your generation, talk about the professional market and professional skills.
You will be able to: increase your level of emotional intelligence, give advice to colleagues and friends on how to work more effectively, and promote your brand.
Lessons in the section:
• Emotional intelligence
• Skills for future jobs (optional)
• Millennials, Self-branding (optional)

8. Benefits of education
You will learn: why continuous education is needed, how to create a self-education plan, which languages ​​are now in danger of extinction, and why bilingual children are real lucky ones.
You will learn to: talk about the features of your native language to foreigners, explain the choice of friends, describe work experience and skills.
You will be able to: choose a profession that you would like to learn, tell others why it is important to constantly learn and what professions are worth mastering.
Lessons in the section:
• Lifelong education
• A guide to self-education (optional)
• Protecting languages
• Bilingualism (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

9. Wellness
You will learn: about the medicine of the future and the technologies that will change it. You will figure out whether you should trust fitness apps, what habits are ruining your life, and what biohacking promises a person.
You will learn to: fight bad habits, predict the development of technologies in medicine, describe hypothetical situations in the present and future.
You will be able to: talk about health, describe fitness trackers and applications, predict the development of technology in the future.
Lessons in the section:
• 21st-century addictions
• Future visits to a doctor (optional)
• Biohacking, Wellness apps (optional)

10. Problems and solutions
You'll learn: how artificial intelligence and social media affect us, why UX and user design principles are needed, and how to break bad news.
You will learn to: give constructive feedback using the sandwich principle, praise or criticize artificial intelligence, talk about troubles.
You can: complain about the inconvenient design, talk about the smart technologies you use.
Lessons in the section:
• Bad days happen
• We've got bad news for you (optional)
• The impact of technologies
• Problems with tech (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

11. The space around us
You will learn: how to organize your space, why many choose to live on eight square meters, on which continent to look for the best cities in the world and environmentally friendly transport.
You will learn: plan changes in the apartment and tell the designer about it, save free space and not harm the environment.
You can: try yourself in design, create your own rating of the best places on the planet, plan useful changes in your city.
Lessons in the section:
•Where to live?
• Living small (optional)
• City rating
• Sustainable transport (optional)

12. Natural world
You will learn: about pressing environmental issues, eco-laws and eco-business, weather-related stereotypes.
You will learn to: speak correctly about the weather, share thoughts about environmental problems in your city on social networks, comment on posts and respond to other commentators.
You will be able to: discuss the pros and cons of environmentally friendly production, present your environmental startup and write a letter to the authorities with initiatives and proposals.
Lessons in the section:
•Climate change
• Weather and cultures (optional)
• Eco-laws
• Eco-business (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

13. Manners
You will learn about indicators of lying, the impact of social networks on mental health, and how it is customary to communicate in different cultures.
You will learn to: adapt to the cultural characteristics of your interlocutor, answer awkward questions, talk about the future of social networks.
You will be able to: communicate more productively and recognize liars, avoid getting confused in conversations with people from other countries, analyze trends and their possible consequences.
Lessons in the section:
• Lie indicators
• Social media addiction (optional)
• Manners, Sensitive questions (optional)

14. Art
You will learn: why we interpret contemporary art differently, about the concept of “ethical entertainment,” about unusual laws and rules of the world, and about how to unravel a criminal in a detective story.
You will learn to: describe works of art, give tips to tourists about the rules of your country, express regret and criticize.
You will be able to: write a letter of apology, tell what should or should not have been done, make your own list of rules and laws.
Lessons in the section:
• Is this art horrible?
• Ethics of entertainment (optional)
• Breaking the law
• Solving crimes (optional)
Intermediate knowledge control

15. Success
You will learn: what is the essence of a short presentation, how to accept failures, how to set and achieve goals.
You will learn to: benefit from failures, choose goals and justify your choices, talk about success and achievements.
You will be able to: introduce yourself in 30 seconds, write a letter to the past, describe in detail your action plan.
Lessons in the section:
•Accepting failure
• Elevator pitch (optional)
• Managing the mind

Exam preparation
Final course exam