Syllabus
1. Unit 2: writing - An article. Time and technology (colloquial English); revise and check.
2. Unit 3A Breaking the silence. text It drives me mad. Listening Julian Treasure.
3. Unit 3A speculation and deduction. Text Breaking the silence.
4. Unit 3B Lost in translation. quiz. adding emphasis - inversion.
5. Unit 3B Text: Lost in translation. Listening Beverley Johnson.
6. Unit 3C Text The sick society. Vocabulary MONEY.
7. Units 3C I wish I had married for money, not love (text). unreal uses of past tenses.
8. Unit 3 writing - review; listening Women and money. Revise and Check.
9. Unit 4A text The scenes you will never forget. History and warfare (lexis).
10. Unit 4A text History goes to the Movies. Discourse markers.
11. Unit 4B text Persuaders. Grammar: verb+object+infinitive or gerund.
12.Unit 4B Listening: self-help books. Compound adjectives.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to develop the four basic language skills further from the B1+ approximately to B2 level of the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This is the second stage of a six-semester course. The teaching is based on systematic work with a course-book (see Jones, Bastow and Hird below).