Syllabus
UNIT 7 - Values part A: Home matters part B: Seeing the world
Language input
· easily confused words
· home and family idiomatic expressions
· cleft sentences / emphasis
· punctuation
Language input
· TRAVEL vocabulary
· past tenses with hypothetical meaning
· wish clauses
Vince self-study
· G14: Emphasis
· WP7: expressions with BY, DO, HAVE, idioms with body parts, verbs of seeing
Vince self-study
· G9: Unreal time and subjunctives
· V2: travel and movement
· V4: places
UNIT 8 - A Rich Life part A: Mixing business and pleasure part B: A means to an end?
Language input
· BUSINESS collocations + fixed phrases
· compounds and prepositions
· inversion
· fronting
Language input
· spending, investing and giving
· comparatives and superlatives
· other ways of comparison
Vince self-study
· G13: Inversion
· V7: work
UNIT 9 - The World of Science part A: Personal challenges part B: Brain power
Language input
· SPACE collocations
· ways of seeing
· idioms with like
· reported speech
Language input
· the mind vocabulary
· dependent prepositions
· prepositions + gerund
Vince self-study
· G16: reported speech
· V16: Technology
Vince self-study
· G21: verbs + prepositions
· G22: prepositions
Annotation
The aim of the course is to develop the four basic language skills further from the B2+ to C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This is the third stage of a six-semester course.
The teaching is based on systematic work with a course-book. There is special emphasis on accuracy, fluency, clarity and complexity of expression.