Objetivos
- Mejorar la independencia en todas las áreas, especialmente en temas reales como la política, los medios de comunicación, el medio ambiente o el tiempo libre.
- Practicar con el uso de la question-tags, la formación y uso de la pasiva, y los verbos frasales y preposicionales.
- El uso del pasado perfecto, la formación de compuestos, y la forma y uso del estilo indirecto. Además del uso de la estructura Used to, Either …or; Neither …nor, expresiones de tiempo y opinión, y verbos que se prestan a confusión.
- El curso abarca funciones como: los medios de comunicación, la expresión escrita y el ámbito familiar,… todo ello a través de ejercicios contextualizados significativos.
- Mediante la introducción de estructuras fundamentales y vocabulario necesario para hablar de las áreas temáticas mencionadas, el alumno es alentado a practicar la pronunciación desde el principio.
- En este nivel, además, el alumno cuenta con un apartado adicional con videos de debate de diversa temática.
Descripción
- Unit 1. Never judge a book by its cover
- Vocabulary. Describing people: personality and appearance. Compound adjectives.
- Grammar. Defining and non-defining relative clauses. Modals for deduction (past and present).
- Writing. An informal email.
- Pronunciation. Compound adjectives.
- Unit 2. Down to Earth
- Vocabulary. Animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds.
- Grammar. Modals and expressions of probability. Conditionals. Alternatives to IF.
- Writing. An article.
- Pronunciation. Contractions. Linking.
- Unit 3. Home Sweet Home
- Vocabulary. Types of housing. Places in the home. Housework. Phrasal verbs connected to people relations.
- Grammar. Modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice. Have/Get something done.
- Writing. A report.
- Pronunciation. Consonant clusters.
- Unit 4. A penny for your thoughts
- Vocabulary. Money. Jobs.
- Grammar. Infinitive versus –ing. Participle clauses.
- Writing. A covering letter.
- Pronunciation. Stress shift.
- Unit 5. Caught Red-Handed
- Vocabulary. Crime. Criminals.
- Grammar. Emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions.
- Writing. An opinion composition.
- Pronunciation. How to sound emphatic.
- Unit 6. Out and About
- Vocabulary. Leisure activities: Travelling. Extreme sports.
- Grammar. Used to, Would. Narrative tenses.
- Writing. A blog post.
- Pronunciation. -ED endings.
- Unit 7. TV or not TV?
- Vocabulary. Headlines. Television (people, TV programmes and a TV guide).
- Grammar. Impersonal report structures. Contrast (despite, in spite of, although…).
- Writing. A “for and against” composition.
- Pronunciation. Contrastive intonation.
- Unit 8. An Apple a Day keeps the Doctor Away
- Vocabulary. Health and illness. Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and Diet.
- Grammar. Reported speech. Reporting statements, commands and questions.
- Writing. A complaint email/letter.
- Pronunciation. Homographs. Homophones.
- Unit 9. No Regrets just Lessons Learned
- Vocabulary. Feelings.
- Grammar. I wish/If only. Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´s time.
- Writing. A personal anecdote.
- Pronunciations. /s/ – /z/ – /?/
- Unit 10. Facebook = Language Facelift?
- Vocabulary. Compounds with –ever. The Internet. Fast Writing.
- Grammar. Future perfect and continuous. Use of the article for generalizing.
- Writign. A review.
- Pronunciations. Words pronounced differently in Spanish/English.