Syllabus:
Week 1: Law and order (lexis, idioms)
Week 2: Word transformations
Week 3: Gerunds and infinitives
Week 4: Revision
Week 5: Psychology and employment (lexis, idioms)
Week 6: The passive voice, causative verbs
Week 7: Revision
Week 8: Money matters (lexis)
Week 11: Reported speech
Week 12: Revision
Coursebook Proficiency Masterclass: selected units: U8, U9, U11 (+ in accordance with students´ preferences)
Workbook Grammar and Vocabulary for CAE and CPE:
U11: S5
U15: S1, S2, S3
U2: S1, S2, S3, S4, S5
U5: S6
U10: S6
U13: S1, S2
The aim of the course is to develop students' language skills at the C1+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course focuses on linguistic accuracy, fluency and complexity of one´s language expression, systematically expanding vocabulary, including collocations, idioms, phrasal verbs and abstract concepts.
Students are encouraged to understand vocabulary as a system, and their knowledge in this area is expanded to include less frequent phenomena occurring in the texts under discussion. Modality Adverb and Adjective Collocations Dependent Prepositions and Phrasal Nouns Tense, Aspect and Voice Gerunds and Infinitives Collocations and Word Knowledge