Enfoque
Objetivo
Capacitar al alumnado para utilizar el idioma con soltura y eficacia en situaciones habituales y más específicas que requieran comprender, producir y tratar textos orales y escritos, conceptual y lingüísticamente complejos, en una variedad de lengua estándar, con un repertorio léxico amplio aunque no muy idiomático, y que versen sobre temas generales, actuales o propios del campo de especialización del hablante.
Temario del curso
Unidad 01 – Inside your head
Present tense review, expressing feelings, past tense review, Life stages, Future tense review, Adverbs used to express a stance, Noun phrases and Phrasal verbs on relationships
Unidad 02 – The dead of Winter
Mixed conditionals, Natural processes, Other conditional structures, Expressions with a natural component, it's high/about time, would rather/sooner, Idioms related to seasons and climatology, Wish/ If only and Commonly confused words
Unidad 03 – In the middle of nowhere
Impersonal passive, how to commute and travel in cities, avoiding passive, Movement phrasal verbs, Causative form, Idioms related to position, Multi-word verbs and the passive and Word-formation of the verbs "go", “come” and “stand”
Unidad 04 – At your leisure
Comparative and superlative: exceptions, Slang, some structures to make comparisons Phrasal verbs on leisure time, Position of adjectives and adverbs within the sentence, Phrases and patterns with the word 'leisure', 'rest', 'play', Adjectives & adverbs: confusing cases and Idioms related to free time
Unidad 05 – If fits like a glove
Overview modal verbs I. Clothes idioms, Overview modal verbs II. Design and materials in the fashion industry, Overview modal verbs III. Patterns and collocations on the word ‘brain’, ‘impression’ and ‘new’, Whatever, whoever, wherever, however, … and Verbs related to the human body.
Unidad 06 – Art in your life
Inversion with adverbial expressions. Visual art. Other kinds of inversions: Neither do I, so did you. Idioms with art words. Adding emphasis: Cleft sentences. Word formation with the word “art”. Do/did for emotive or contrastive emphasis. On “art quality”
Unidad 07 – Notes and spare change
Ellipsis: reduced infinitives. Word formation of “pay” and idioms. Ellipsis: omission of the main verb. Money matters. Clauses: defining and non-defining clauses. Money sayings. Participle Clauses. Deadly money disorders
Unidad 08 – Caught red-handed
Reported speech and reporting verbs. Crime and Justice, Reported questions, imperatives, requests and passive. Law and power idioms. The subjunctive. Word formation: moral, power, govern. Fixed subjunctive expressions and alternatives to subjunctive. Idioms with 'word'
Unidad 09 – Well-oiled machine
‘Seem’ and ‘appear’. Progress. Linking clauses of reason and result. Quality control Linking clauses of purpose. Technology idioms. Infinitives, -ing forms and verb patterns Collocations on "purpose", “energy”, “date”.
Unidad 10 – Breaking news!
Linking words and expressions. Miscellaneous media vocabulary. Punctuation, spelling and most common mistakes. Giving and withholding information. Nominalisation. Patterns on "discussion". British and American English grammar and usage. Slang terminology in Social Media.
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