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- 🎩Glad You Made It!👏🏼👨🏼🚀Welcome to Proficiency guys! Get ready to rock!!3
- Mission 1️⃣ - 🧑🦰Who we areExplore topics of relationships, family life, personality & qualities16
- 2.2🛸Mission 1 – Tasks & Assignments11 Minutes
- 2.3📕 Wordlist 1 – Family life & Character traits (62 words)24 Minutes
- 2.4📕 Wordlist 2 – Character & Personality Traits (60 words)24 Minutes
- 2.5📕 Wordlist 3 – Character expressions & idioms(62 words)23 Minutes
- 2.6📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 1b (🎩21 words)14 Minutes
- 2.7📒 Idioms Quiz 1b (🎩24 idioms)15 Minutes
- 2.8📓Words Often Confused Quiz 1 (🎩20 words)20 Minutes
- 2.9📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 2b (🎩19 words)14 Minutes
- 2.10🚀Grammar corner – All the present tenses10 Minutes
- 2.11🚀Grammar corner – Used to/ Would
- 2.12🚀Grammar corner – All Past Tenses5 Minutes
- 2.13🚀Grammar corner – Comparisons15 Minutes
- 2.14📃Huge list of character adjectives
- 2.15📃Descriptive words for writing class25 Minutes
- 2.16🎮Workbook Mission 1 Wordlist17 Minutes
- 2.17🌐 Mission 1 Final Wordlist Challenge30 Minutes
- Mission 2️⃣ - 🏃♂️Pushing boundariesExplore topics of technological developments and advancements, robotics, everyday computing and gadgets.16
- 3.2🛸Mission 2 – Tasks & Assignments12 Minutes
- 3.3📱The pitfalls of technology -Food for thought.25 Minutes
- 3.4📕 Word list 1 – Artificial implants (87 words)15 Minutes
- 3.5📕Word list 2 – Cutting edge tech (67 words)37 Minutes
- 3.6📕 Word list 3 – Jobs of the future (78 words)25 Minutes
- 3.7📒 Idioms Quiz 2b (🎩40 words)10 Minutes
- 3.8📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 3b (🎩28 words)15 Minutes
- 3.9📒 Idioms Quiz 3b (🎩26 words)
- 3.10📓Words Often Confused Quiz 2 (🎩20 Words)18 Minutes
- 3.11🚀Grammar corner – All future tenses23 Minutes
- 3.12🚀Grammar corner – Other forms of future12 Minutes
- 3.13🚀Grammar corner – Degrees of certainty3 Minutes
- 3.14🚀Grammar corner – Using ‘it’ and ‘there’ – Dummy subjects!
- 3.15🗣️💬Speaking Activity: The Key25 Minutes
- 3.16🎮🔤M2 Workbook wordlist (Quzziz)35 Minutes
- 3.17🌐Mission 2 Final Wordlist Challenge30 Minutes
- Mission 3️⃣ - 👨🏫Widen your horizonsExplore the topics of office personalities, jobs and working life, job qualities, vocational training, problems at work.18
- 4.2🛸Mission 3 – Tasks & Assignments12 Minutes
- 4.3🎮Vocabulary Revision – Work & Jobs25 Minutes
- 4.4📽️Widen your horizons & career satisfaction15 Minutes
- 4.5📕 Word list 1 – Kinds of employees (62 words)35 Minutes
- 4.6📕 Word list 2 – Call it a day (58 words)19 Minutes
- 4.7📕 Word list 3 – Hit the books (64 words)18 Minutes
- 4.8📓Words Often Confused Quiz 314 Minutes
- 4.9📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 4b (🎩27 words)14 Minutes
- 4.10📒 Idioms Quiz 4b (🎩25 words)14 Minutes
- 4.11📓Words Often Confused Quiz 415 Minutes
- 4.12🎮(Survey) Young Entrepreneurs – Making their mark!25 Minutes
- 4.13🚀Grammar corner – Infinitive & Gerund15 Minutes
- 4.14🚀Grammar corner – Intensifiers17 Minutes
- 4.15🗣️💬Giving and responding to advice (Web resources)15 Minutes
- 4.16✍️📽️Future of delivery🚚 (📜 with selfassessment rubric)25 Minutes
- 4.17🎮Collocation game (practice)10 Minutes
- 4.18🔤Extra Wordlist Challenge – M3 Workbook25 Minutes
- 4.19🌐Mission 3 Final Wordlist Challenge35 Minutes
- Mission 4️⃣ - 🩸Health mattersExplore the topics of well-being, health problems, conditions and injuries, food & nutrition, fitness and sport13
- 5.2🛸Mission 4 – Tasks & Assignments12 Minutes
- 5.3📕 Word list 1 – 63 words35 Minutes
- 5.4📕 Wordlist 2 – 69 words35 Minutes
- 5.5📕 Wordlist 3 – 66 words35 Minutes
- 5.6📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 5b (🎩32 words)14 Minutes
- 5.7📒 Idioms Quiz 5b (15 words)14 Minutes
- 5.8📓Words Often Confused Quiz 5 (10 words)13 Minutes
- 5.9📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 6b (🎩26 words)20 Minutes
- 5.10📒 Idioms Quiz 6b (15 words)14 Minutes
- 5.13🚀Grammar corner –Using Modal Verbs22 Minutes
- 5.14🚀Grammar corner –Expressions similar to modals16 Minutes
- 5.15🎥💡DL – White Christmas – NetFlix – Ethical Considerations120 Minutes
- 5.16🌐Mission 4 Final Wordlist Challenge (288 words)35 Minutes
- Mission 5️⃣ - 🌋Cause for concernExplore topics of modern social problems, crime & punishment, social injustice & world problems, and the environment.14
- 6.2🛸Mission 5 – Tasks & Assignments14 Minutes
- 6.3📕 Wordlist 1 – 65 words35 Minutes
- 6.4📕 Wordlist 2 – 71 words37 Minutes
- 6.5📕 Wordlist 3 – 75 words45 Minutes
- 6.6📕 Wordlist 4 – 61 words38 Minutes
- 6.7📓Words Often Confused Quiz 6 (20 words)14 Minutes
- 6.8📘 Phrasal verb Quiz 7b (🎩15 words)16 Minutes
- 6.9📒 Idioms Quiz 7b (15 words)14 Minutes
- 6.10🚀Grammar corner – Passive Voice25 Minutes
- 6.11🚀Grammar corner – Reflexive & emphatic pronouns14 Minutes
- 6.12🚀Grammar corner – Causative form23 Minutes
- 6.13🚀Grammar corner –Substitution & Ellipsis18 Minutes
- 6.14🎮🔤M5 Workbook wordlist (Quzziz)
- 6.15🌐Mission 5 Final Wordlist Challenge (287 words)45 Minutes
- Mission 6️⃣ - 🛍️Material worldExplore the topics of advertising, shopping, money & spending.12
- 7.2🛸Mission 6 – Tasks & Assignments14 Minutes
- 7.3📕 Wordlist 1 – 54 words25 Minutes
- 7.4📕 Wordlist 2 – 70 words17 Minutes
- 7.5📕 Wordlist 3 – 47 words19 Minutes
- 7.6📕 Wordlist 4 – 56 words29 Minutes
- 7.7🚀Grammar corner – Conditionals Advanced36 Minutes
- 7.8🚀Grammar corner – Wishes/if only15 Minutes
- 7.9🚀Grammar corner – Unreal past15 Minutes
- 7.10🚀Grammar corner – had better/would rather /prefer19 Minutes
- 7.11🚀Grammar corner – Other expressions with hypothetical meaning19 Minutes
- 7.12🎮🔤M6 Workbook wordlist (Quzziz)35 Minutes
- 7.13🌐Mission 6 Final Wordlist Challenge (227 words)45 Minutes
- Mission 7️⃣ - 🌳Back to natureExplore the topics of nature & outdoor activities, landscapes & geographical features, extreme weather & natural phenomena, sounds in nature.22
- 8.2🛸Mission 7 – Tasks & Assignments15 Minutes
- 8.3📕 Wordlist 1 – 119 words20 Minutes
- 8.4📕 Wordlist 2 – 80 words18 Minutes
- 8.5📕 Wordlist 3 – 59 words20 Minutes
- 8.6🚀Grammar corner – Subjunctive25 Minutes
- 8.7🚀Grammar corner – Inversion16 Minutes
- 8.8🚀Grammar corner – Inversion with theory box (Advanced)17 Minutes
- 8.9🚀Grammar corner – Reported speech (⚠️Lot’s to read)35 Minutes
- 8.10🚀Grammar corner – Present Perfect Continuous10 Minutes
- 8.11🚀Grammar corner – Past Simple25 Minutes
- 8.12🚀Grammar corner – Past continuous15 Minutes
- 8.13🚀Grammar corner – Past Perfect15 Minutes
- 8.14🚀Grammar corner – Something that happened before something else in the past – Past perfect
- 8.15🚀Grammar corner – Definite and indefinite article16 Minutes
- 8.16🚀Grammar corner – Determiners38 Minutes
- 8.17🚀Grammar corner – Some /any /no9 Minutes
- 8.18🚀Grammar corner – Countable /Uncountable nouns14 Minutes
- 8.19🚀Grammar corner – Every /each9 Minutes
- 8.20🚀Grammar corner – a few / few & a little / little5 Minutes
- 8.21🚀Grammar corner – Past perfect continuous
- 8.22🎮🔤M7 Workbook wordlist (Quzziz)35 Minutes
- 8.23🌐Mission 7 Final Wordlist Challenge (259 words)45 Minutes
- Mission 8️⃣ - 🎭The Art of EntertainmentExplore the topics of art forms, TV & film, music, literature, adjectives describing performances & art.16
- 9.2🛸Mission 8 – Tasks & Assignments
- 9.3📕 Wordlist 1 – 77 words22 Minutes
- 9.4📕 Wordlist 2 – 79 words22 Minutes
- 9.5📕 Wordlist 3 – 98 words25 Minutes
- 9.6🚀Grammar corner – Relative clauses15 Minutes
- 9.7🚀Grammar corner – Participle clauses25 Minutes
- 9.8🚀Grammar corner – Clauses of Contrast
- 9.9🚀Grammar corner – Time Clauses
- 9.10🚀Grammar corner – Clauses of Purpose12 Minutes
- 9.11🚀Grammar corner – Clauses of reason12 Minutes
- 9.12🚀Grammar corner – Cleft sentences18 Minutes
- 9.13🚀Grammar corner – Exclamations9 Minutes
- 9.14🚀Grammar corner – Clauses of result
- 9.15🚀Grammar corner – Clauses of place9 Minutes
- 9.16🎮🔤M8 Workbook wordlist (Quzziz)
- 9.17🌐Mission 8 Final Wordlist Challenge (227 words)45 Minutes
- 💬 Extra Speaking ResourcesUseful information on speaking at C2 level.27
- 10.2💬 II – Speaking Expressions15 Minutes
- 10.3🗒 ✅Use the S.T.A.R method to answer those difficult questions14 Minutes
- 10.4💬Other ways to say “Your welcome” after a “Thank you”9 Minutes
- 10.5🗒 When you think your English is getting worse!2 Minutes
- 10.6❓🗣Many many warm-up questions!300 Days
- 10.7💬 I – Useful expressions to use in spoken production and or interaction in English25 Minutes
- 10.8🆕C2 interactions: formal language and linguistic politeness13 Minutes
- 10.9🆕🗒 Using persuasive language in interactions13 Minutes
- 10.10💬 Fillers for speaking tests
- 10.11🗒 A quick guide to speaking C2 English4 Minutes
- 10.12🧩❓🗣Speaking activity: About you15 Minutes
- 10.13🧩❓🗣Music border speaking activity25 Minutes
- 10.14🗯️Roleplay🦻🏼: Who should get the bill?25 Minutes
- 10.15🗯️Listening🦻🏼: A Night out20 Minutes
- 10.16🗯️Reading🦻🏼: The future of money20 Minutes
- 10.17🗯️Listening🦻🏼: The Protestor20 Minutes
- 10.18🗯️Roleplay🦻🏼: The Selfie25 Minutes
- 10.19🗯️Roleplay🦻🏼: The Stray20 Minutes
- 10.20🗯️Reading🦻🏼: Digital footprint25 Minutes
- 10.21👩👩👧👦Discussion🦻🏼: Cosplay20 Minutes
- 10.22👩👩👧👦Discussion🦻🏼: Digital art & NFTs20 Minutes
- 10.23💬🎮What are dreams?10 Minutes
- 10.24💬 III – Advanced Speaking and writing linkers for coherence15 Minutes
- 10.25Protected: 🎭Strategic Interaction🦻🏼: Student eXchange Program Student A15 Minutes
- 10.26Protected: 🎭Strategic Interaction🦻🏼: Student eXchange Program Student B15 Minutes
- 10.27👩👩👧👦Social Emotional Learning 🗯️: Identity25 Minutes
- 10.28🗯️Roleplay🦻🏼: The Meeting25 Minutes
- ✍Extra Writing ResourcesSome useful information, model answers and extra resources on various topics for the C2 level Writing section.22
- 11.2✍️Mr Mike’s Self and Peer Assement Routine15 Minutes
- 11.3✅📋Marking codes for writing8 Minutes
- 11.4📄 Introduction to writing2 Minutes
- 11.5📄 Examples of complex grammar structures in essays.15 Minutes
- 11.6📄 Examples of linking words and phrases15 Minutes
- 11.7🎮Self-Assesment task for writing essay20 Minutes
- 11.8📕✅📋Read about various writing topics55 Minutes
- 11.9📕School uniforms in schools15 Minutes
- 11.10📕Are University degrees worth it?90 Minutes
- 11.11📕Deeper Learning: Social dilemma25 Minutes
- 11.12📕The aging population problem24 Minutes
- 11.13📕Use of social media in class25 Minutes
- 11.14📕How important are the arts in school?
- 11.15📕The effects of tourisms15 Minutes
- 11.16📕Should we use CCTV cameras in public places12 Minutes
- 11.17📕Environmental problems & climate change25 Minutes
- 11.18📕Deeper Learning: Life on Mars45 Minutes
- 11.19📕 Plastic surgery vs Cosmetic surgery
- 11.20📕Should we keep sports in schools? (ECPE)
- 11.21📕Teenage eating disorders (MSU)
- 11.22📕Use of social media in business15 Minutes
- 11.23📕What Are Antioxidants – Antioxidants And Free Radicals Explained5 Minutes
📕School uniforms in schools
In the past, schools used to have strict dress codes and students who disobeyed the rules were either punished or expelled. Do you think that schools have a right to make rules about students’ dress and their appearance in general? Be sure to support your opinion with reasons, examples, and explanations.
Other words for ‘strict dress codes
Expelled: to be made to not come to school for some days.
curtail – decrease, reduces
modest – humble – unpretentious – μετριόφρων
intruders- παρείσακτος (στα πλαίσια του σχολείου αναφέρεται στους εξωσχολικούς
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