General English Course at Advanced Level C1 Language skills and systems covered

At Advanced Level students would have developed fluency and other language areas to become proficient users of the language and therefore topics covered at this level are more challenging in terms of spoken and written language such as presentation writing, negotiation skills and formal complaints. Topics include speculation, expressing oneself in a speculative way,  e-mail enquiries, writing blogs about specific subjects and many other challenging tasks to name a few.

 1 Change GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Make comparisons
  • Talk about time and speed
  • Use continuous forms
  • Talk about change
  • Predict content
  • Use a dictionary
  • Write a report based on a graph
  • Use vague language: approximation

1.1     Up to speed?

 

 Comparing Time and speed Sentence stress Video Vox pops
1.2 Managing change Continuous forms Change
1.3 Vocabulary and skills development Using a dictionary Reading predicting content
1.4 Writing and speaking

Writing a report based on a graph

Speaking vague language, approximation
1.5 Video Pike Place Fish Market

 

2 Feats GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Recognize and use noun phrases
  • Understand and use phrases with adverbs
  • Talk about problems and solutions
  • Use perfect forms
  • Understand and use collocations of perception and sound
  • Takes notes
  • Write summaries
  • Give an informal talk
 2.1 Feats of nature Noun phrases Phrases with adverbs Video Vox pops
2.2 Feats of engineering Perfect forms Collocations for describing problems and solutions
2.3 Vocabulary and skills development Collocations of perception and sound Listening how writers avoid repetition
2.4 Writing and speaking Consonant clusters

Writing a summary

Speaking an informal talk
2.5 Video The Falkirk Wheel

 

3 Team GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Talk about behaviour and attitude
  • Use auxiliary verbs
  • Use articles
  • Talk about success and failure
  • Understand how writers avoid repetition
  • Use prepositional phrases
  • Check and rephrase
  • Write a proposal
 3.1 The perfect team Auxiliary verbs Behaviour and attitude Auxiliary verbs

Video Vox pops 3

 
3.2 Team game Articles Success and failure
3.3 Vocabulary and skills development Prepositional phrases Reading how writers avoid repetition
3.4 Speaking and writing Checking and rephrasing

Speaking checking and rephrasing

Writing a proposal
3.5 Video the tall Ships Race

 

4 Responsibility GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Express degrees of obligation
  • Talk about responsibility
  • Use phrases with care
  • Use passives
  • Understand and use connotation
  • Write a balanced argument essay
  • Take part in formal negotiations
 4.1 Age of the responsibility Degrees of obligation

Responsibility

 
4.2 The caring generation Passives Phrases with care Pacing and spacing in natural speech
4.3 Vocabulary and skills development Connotation

Listening understanding word boundaries

Video vox pops     
4.4 Writing and speaking

Writing a balanced argument essay

Speaking formal negotiations
4.5 Video an international aid worker

 

5. Power GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Use relative clauses
  • Use common phrases with relative pronouns
  • Use quantifiers
  • Use phrases with of to describe quantity
  • Understand complex sentences
  • Use compound adjectives and nouns
  • Manage conversations
  • Use emphasis in writing
 5.1 How holds the power ?

Relative clauses

 

 Common phrases with relative pronouns
5.2 The power of the sun Quantifiers Phrases with of to describe quantity
5.3 Vocabulary and skills development Compound adjectives and nouns Reading understanding complex sentences
5.6 Speaking and writing Video Vox pops

Speaking managing conversations

Writing emphasis : inversion and cleft sentences
Video the power of the sun

 

6. Play GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Use would
  • Talk about preferences
  • Understand and use verb patterns
  • Talk about leisure, relaxation and stress
  • Understand words with more than one meaning
  • Understand reference
  • Use vague language
  • Write an online review
 6.1 Play games and save the planet? Uses of would Preferences Would in connected speech
6.2 The invention of leisure Verb patterns Leisure, relaxation and stress Video Vox Pops
6.3 Vocabulary and skills development Words with more than one meaning Listening understanding reference
6.4 Speaking and writing

Speaking vague language

Writing an online review
Video leisure through the ages

 

7. Emotion and reason GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Talk about hypotheses
  • Talk about emotions
  • Talk about unreality
  • React to events
  • Understand links within a text
  • Understand metaphor
  • Take part in informal negotiations
  • Use comment adverbs
 7.1 Fooled by our feelings Hypotheses Emotions
7.2 Embarrassment Unreality Reacting to events Video Vox pops 7
7.3 Vocabulary and skills development Metaphor Reading understanding links within a text
7.4 Speaking and Writing Intonation in negotiating phrases

Speaking informal negotiations

Writing comment adverbs
7.5 Video Decisions, decision

 

8. Plastic GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Describe the properties of materials
  • Express probability and speculation
  • Use participle clauses
  • Use phrasal verbs
  • Know what to concentrate on while listening
  • Use formal and informal language
  • Speculate, compare and contrast
  • Write a problem -solution -evaluation essay or report
 8.1 The multi-purpose materiel Probability and speculation Properties of materials
8.2 My life without Participle clauses Phrasal verbs Video Vox pops
8.3 Vocabulary and skills development Formal and informal language
8.4 Speaking and writing Listening knowing what to concentrate

Speaking speculating, comparing and contrasting

Writing a problem-solution-evaluation essay or report
8.5 Video Net value

 

9. Learning GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING
  • Use Will in different ways
  • Use idiomatic phrases with will
  • Talk about higher education
  • Talk about the future
  • Understand paraphrasing
  • Understand three ways to create new words
  • Give a presentation
  • Use discourse marker in writing
 9.1 The best way to learn Uses of will Idiomatic phrases with will Use of stress on will and would Video vox pops

9.2 The future of higher education

 

 The future Higher education
9.3 Vocabulary and skills development Three ways to create new words Listening paraphrasing
9.4 Speaking and writing

Speaking giving a presentation

Writing discourse markers
9.5 Video Academic excellence

 

10. New GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING

·         Recognize and use noun phrases

·         Talk about money

·         Understand the position of adverbials

·         Talk about new and old

·         Understand writer stance

·         Understand idioms

·         Reach a consensus

·         Write an email enquiry

 10.1 New ways Noun phrases Money Video vox pops
10.2 Live! Position of adverbials New and old Sentences with only
10.3 Vocabulary and skills development Understanding idioms Reading understanding writer stance
10.4 Speaking and writing

Speaking reaching a consensus

Writing an email enquiry
10.5 Video A self-build co

 

 

11. Origins GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING

·         Understand adjective position

·         Use adjectives and adverbs beginning with a-

·         Use whoever, whatever, wherever, no matter

·         Talk about food preparation

·         Use noun reference

·         Understand fixed and semi-fixed expressions

·         Use emphasis

·         Write a blog entry

 11.1 Origins of language  Adjective Position Adjectives and adverbs beginnings with a-
11.2 Origins of world food Whoever, whatever, Whenever, no matter Food preparation
11.3 Vocabulary and skills development Fixed and semi-fixed expressions Reading noun reference
11.4 Speaking and writing Video Vox pops

Speaking emphasis

Writing a blog entry
11.5 Video Chinese New Year

 

12. Memory GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING SPEAKING/WRITING

·         Use causatives have and get

·         Understand special meanings of off, down and over

·         Use reporting verbs

·         Describe research and results

·         Understand non-standard word order

·         Notice, select and record collocations

·         Talk about a magazine story

·         Write a magazine story

12.1 Types of memory

 

 Causatives have and get Special meanings of off, down and over
12.2 Improving your memory Reporting verbs Describing research and results Stress in word families Video Vox
12.3 Vocabulary and skills development Noticing, selecting and recording collocations Listening understanding non – Standard word order
12.4 Speaking and writing

Speaking talking about a magazine story

Writing a magazine story

 

12.5 Video how to train your memory