Capacitar al alumnado para utilizar el idioma con flexibilidad, eficacia y precisión para participar en todo tipo de situaciones, en los ámbitos personal, público, académico y profesional, que requieran comprender, producir y procesar textos orales y escritos extensos y complejos, en diversas variedades estándar de la lengua, con un repertorio léxico amplio, y que versen sobre temas tanto abstractos como concretos, incluso aquellos con los que el hablante no esté familiarizado.
IMPORTANTE
Requisitos técnicos adicionales para este curso (para actividades de speaking):
Navegador necesario: Google Chrome, en versión actualizada, en sistemas Windows, Mac. Linux y Android.
Estas actividades no se pueden realizar en sistemas iOS (iPhone, iPad). Tampoco en los sistemas anteriormente indicados utilizando cualquier otro navegador.
Las actividades de speaking precisan de ausencia de ruido ambiental, así como del uso de un micrófono con suficiente calidad.
CONTENIDOS
Inside your head
Expressing feelings
Life stages
Future tense review
Phrasal verbs on relationships
The dead of Winter
Natural processes
Other conditional structures
Idioms
Commonly confused words
In the middle of nowhere
Cities
Movement phrasal verbs
Idioms related to position
Go, “come” and “stand”
At your leisure
Slang
Phrasal verbs on leisure time
Leisure`, `rest` and `play`
Idioms related to free time
If fits like a glove
Clothes Idioms
Design and materials in the fashion industry
‘Brain’, ‘impression’ and ‘new’
The human body
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”
Notes and spare change
Ellipsis: reduced infinitives.
Word formation of “pay” and idioms.
Ellipsis: omission of the main verb after a modal or auxiliary verb.
Money matters.
Clauses: defining and non-defining clauses.
Money sayings.
Participle Clauses.
Deadly money disorders
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`
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”.
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