Syllabus
Kurz je postaven na vybraných lekcích z učebnice Cambridge English Proficiency Masterclass (Gude a kol. 2012) a zahrnuje následující kapitoly:
WEEK 1 -2
Unit 4 Family and Relationships
WEEK 3-4
Unit 6 Health and Lifestyle
WEEK 5 -6
Unit 7 Science and Technology
WEEK 7-8 + other weeks and self-study
Unit 10 Entertainment and Leisure
Unit 12 Money matters
Annotation
The aim of the course is the development of language skills equivalent to C1+ (CEFR). The course aims at the following areas: the improvement of language accuracy, fluency and the overall complexity of students’ spoken and written discourse; the systematic enrichment of vocabulary, including collocations, idioms, phasal verbs and abstract concepts. The students are encouraged to perceive the language system as a whole and to acquire the use of less frequent phenomena. Topics for discussion and vocabulary development (including collocations, idioms and word-formation processes): Grammar topics
1. Focus and emphasis, cleft sentences
2. Past modals (possibility, necessity, obligation, speculation)
3. Definining and non-defining clauses; reduced clauses
4. Adverbial claues - manner, reason and contrast clauses
5. Conditionals (counter-factual, unreal, mixed) Vocabulary topics:
1. vocabulary related to the discussed topics (i.e. family, health, science, entertainment, money) including stylistic characteristics, idioms and collocations;
2. word-formation processes
3. synonyms
4.discourse markers