GBC

This lesson will focus on using a variety of phrases to add emphasis. The topic we will discuss is your workplace.

This is a review of the previous four lessons on fluency. It will give you a chance to practice giving a smooth, fluent answer.

This is the final lesson on fluency in this section. It will help you to win the listener's attention using gestures, eye contact and intonation. 

In the last lesson, you worked on avoiding non-word sounds and pausing effectively. This lesson will help you to understand English rhythm and intonation, and show you how to use set phrases to appear more fluent.

In many speaking tests, speakers are penalized for saying non-word sounds, such as "um" or "uh". Eliminating these sounds is also one of the quickest ways to sound more sophisticated in presentations, meetings, and even everyday life. 

This is the beginning of the section of the course about fluency. You will understand what fluency is and learn practical ways to improve it. This lesson is an overview, and it offers quick wins and simple strategies you can use right away.

In this lesson, we will focus on getting you mentally prepared for your test.

This lesson is about making a strong, well-reasoned argument. This is the last part of making a strong basic answer. 

The previous lesson was about introductions and conclusions; this lesson is about making an argument. This is the body of your answer. It is central to improving your overall score on all speaking tests. It will also help you to become a more powerful speaker in general. 

To succeed in speaking tests, you need to make sure you begin and end your answers well. We'll teach you some simple strategies to do this with confidence. 

GBC interviews will often cover the topic of your job. Try to describe your working life using analogies, while adding detail about your job. In this lesson we will cover your you, your job, your company and what they do. Try to make your answers accurate and as descriptive as possible, and to talk about the day to day details as well as an overall description of your working life.

The GBC test will usually start with some warm-up questions about you and your life. You'll need to talk about your travel experiences, where you grew up and your own personality. In this lesson, you will practice GBC-style questions about you and your life, so you can get your test off to the best possible start.

Our first strategy lesson is about interview tests in general. We'll talk about what they are for. This will help you avoid the biggest mistake that people make in interview tests.

This lesson will focus on a very challenging part of English pronunciation, /l/ and /r/. These sounds take time and energy to perfect. If you'd like to study pronunciation more deeply, please try the Pronunciation In Use textbook.

This lesson is aimed at quickly improving pronunciation. It will focus on three sounds that don't appear in the Japanese alphabet, but most people can start to make them relatively quickly.

In this lesson we'll discuss nature and traditions, and decide what role they should play in logical decision making.

Using sound logic is vital for advanced communication. It will also help you answer questions clearly in meetings, presentations and conversation, as well as get better scores on logical aspects of English speaking tests. This lesson is about how to use data.