Objetivos
Conseguir que los alumnos:
- Dispongan de los recursos lingü,ísticos y no lingü,ísticos necesarios para participar en los intercambios comunicativos con un grado de fluidez, precisión y naturalidad suficientes como para que sus interlocutores no tengan que hacer un esfuerzo especial,
- Tengan un nivel de conciencia de la lengua que les permite evitar errores que den lugar a malentendidos y utilizan suficientes recursos como para salvar situaciones de ambigü,edad y aclarar lo que el interlocutor ha querido decir,
- Utilicen un repertorio lingü,ístico amplio, suficiente para expresarse con argumentos y matices, sin errores importantes de formulación y con una pronunciación clara,
- Consideren el efecto que producen sus comentarios y tienen en cuenta tanto la situación de comunicación como a sus interlocutores para adaptar el registro y el nivel de formalidad a las distintas circunstancias,
- Dispongan de capacidad lingü,ística suficiente como para plantear los detalles de un problema, presentar reclamaciones y resolver situaciones conflictivas recurriendo a su capacidad de argumentar y a un lenguaje persuasivo.
Temario:
UNIT 1 NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
VOCABULARY Describing people: personality and appearance.
Compound adjectives
GRAMMAR Defining and non-defi ning relative clauses.
Modals for deduction (past and present)
WRITING An informal email
PRONUNCIATION Compound adjectives
UNIT 2 DOWN-TO-EARTH
VOCABULARY Animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds
GRAMMAR Modals and expressions of probability.
Conditionals. Alternatives to IF
WRITING An article
PRONUNCIATION Contractions. Linking
UNIT 3 HOME SWEET HOME
VOCABULARY Types of housing. Places in the home. Housework.
Phrasal verbs connected to people relations
GRAMMAR Modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice.
Have/Get something done
WRITING A report
PRONUNCIATION Consonant clusters
UNIT 4 A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
VOCABULARY Money. Jobs
GRAMMAR Infi nitive versus &ndash,ing. Participle clauses
WRITING A covering letter
PRONUNCIATION Stress shift
UNIT 5 CAUGHT RED-HANDED
VOCABULARY Crime. Criminals
GRAMMAR Emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions
WRITING An opinion composition
PRONUNCIATION How to sound emphatic
UNIT 6 OUT AND ABOUT
VOCABULARY Leisure activities: Travelling. Extreme sports
GRAMMAR Used to, Would. Narrative tenses
WRITING A blog post
PRONUNCIATION-ED endings
UNIT 7 TV OR NOT TV?
VOCABULARY Headlines. Television (people, TV programmes and a TV guide)
GRAMMAR Impersonal report structures. Contrast (despite, in spite of, although&hellip,)
WRITING A &ldquo,for and against&rdquo, composition
PRONUNCIATION Contrastive intonation
UNIT 8 AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
VOCABULARY Health and illness. Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and Diet
GRAMMAR Reported speech. Reporting statements, commands and questions.
WRITING A complaint email/letter
PRONUNCIATION Homographs. Homophones
UNIT 9 NO REGRETS JUST LESSONS LEARNED
VOCABULARY Feelings
GRAMMAR I wish/If only. Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´,s time
WRITING A personal anecdote
PRONUNCIATION /s/ - /z/ - /?/
UNIT 10 FACEBOOK = LANGUAGE FACELIFT?
VOCABULARY Compounds with &ndash,ever. The Internet. Fast Writing
GRAMMAR Future perfect and continuous. Use of the article for generalizing
WRITING A review
PRONUNCIATION Words pronounced diff erently in Spanish/English
LISTENING TRANSCRIPTS PER UNIT
EXERCISE KEY
Información Adicional
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