This course combines C1-level English lessons with C1 Advanced exam preparation.
The course provides students with the necessary tools to communicate and be able to use the structures of the English language with ease and fluency at a proficiency level. Students acquire the ability to communicate with the emphasis on accuracy in terms of sensitivity and awareness of the significance of register so they are able to adapt their language use to a variety of social situations. They are also provided with the tools to produce a variety of types of texts and utterances.
Once the course has finished students can understand a wide range of demanding and longer texts and recognise implicit meaning. They can also express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions and use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. They can produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on more complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices. Students are able to understand and produce oral and written texts about unfamiliar topics.
Through the course students learn different language functions such as: expressing quantity, shopping in a supermarket, giving orders, describing ability, expressing obligation and lack of obligation, future possibility, purpose, giving advice, offering to do something, making promises, suggestions, offerings and polite questions, expressing real and unreal conditions, explaining processes, describing people and places, forming verbs and words, reporting direct speech and thoughts, describing scenes and images and expressing position. Students also learn how to express themselves through stage terminology and they learn to talk about films and animals, describe objects, express real and unreal conditions, explain processes, describe people, scenes, images and places, report direct speech and thoughts.
Vocabulary topics covered in this course include: proportions and figures, quantities, nouns, fruits and vegetables, synonyms and antonyms, good luck charms and superstitions, machines and machinery, homonyms, agriculture, mining and industry, personal appearance and location, diversity, sleep and dreams, advertising, social trends, the environment and natural disasters, diseases, vehicles and driving, tourism, parapsychology and horoscopes, urban places of interest, light and colour, artistic and photographic terms onomatopoeia and useful expressions such as: to know in advance, to be one’s own boss, short-term contract, etc. Students also learn and practice with specific terminology for letter writing and contracts, the film and photography industries, modelling and English idioms. Units include practices in vocabulary differences between British and American English.
Moreover, this course puts special emphasis on business situations. Students learn a wide variety of business vocabulary and expressions so that they can talk about types of companies and about leasing a commercial property, for example. They are able to practice and attend business situations such as working to a deadline or dealing with a difficult task at work.
Students practice all the language abilities: writing, speaking, listening and reading through a series of interactive and contextualised exercises. They learn through real life dialogues, word/sentence – picture association and video dubbing among others. The last lesson of each unit has some test exercises so that students are aware of their progress.
This course provides six examination papers for the C1 Advanced exam. These papers allow candidates to practise and become familiar with the exam format.
Each paper is made up of four parts, designed to test the key language skills. The four papers are: Reading and Use of English, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
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