Descripción
DURACIÓN
90 horas
PROGRAMA DEL CURSO
UNIT 1. WONDERS OF THE BRAIN
- Grammar focus – Modals: speculation and deduction
- Theme/Lexical focus – Wonders of the brain/Verbs of thinking
- Functional focus – Reminding someone to do something
- Writing task – Write a story about a time when you forgot to do something very important.
UNIT 2. MUSIC TO MY EARS
- Grammar focus
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Articles
- Theme/Lexical focus – Music/ Types of music
- Functional focus – Expressing preferences
- Writing task
- Write a review of either a concert that you have been to recently or a CD that you have bought recently.
UNIT 3. NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
- Grammar focus
- Reported speech
- Linking words
- Theme/Lexical focus – The news/The media
- Functional focus – Interviews
- Writing task – ‘Over fifty percent of what is in the news is unimportant.’ Do you agree?
UNIT 4. CRACKING THE CODE
- Grammar focus – Relative pronouns & clauses
- Theme/Lexical focus – Codes & Puzzles/Games
- Functional focus – Expressing agreement and disagreement
- Writing task – What are the pros & cons of playing computer games?
UNIT 5. RIGHT AS RAIN
- Grammar focus – Modals: advice and suggestions
- Theme/Lexical focus – Healthy living/Being healthy
- Functional focus – Giving and responding to advice
- Writing task – Describe the pros and cons of being a vegetarian.
UNIT 6. PARTY ON!
- Grammar focus – Gerunds & infinitives
- Theme/Lexical focus – Celebrations & festival/verbs
- Functional focus – Making & responding to invitations and arrangements
- Writing task
- Write an email to a penfriend in another country describing a local festival where you live.
UNIT 7. HOBBIES OR PASTIMES?
- Grammar focus
- Mixed conditionals
- Third conditional
- Theme/Lexical focus – Hobbies
- Functional focus – Showing interest
- Writing task – Write a letter to a friend persuading them to come on an activity weekend with you.
UNIT 8. THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
- Grammar focus – Concessive clauses and complex sentences
- Theme/Lexical focus – Wild weather/ Natural disasters
- Functional focus – Asking for clarification
- Writing task – Write a covering letter for a NGO
UNIT 9. ON THE RUN
- Grammar focus
- Quantifiers as determiners
- Causative structures
- Linkers
- Theme/Lexical focus – Crime/Crimes (nouns & verbs)
- Functional focus – Expressing regrets
- Writing task – Write a report suggesting ways of reducing levels of crime in your town.
UNIT 10. KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
- Grammar focus – Phrasal verb focus
- Theme/Lexical focus – Family and history/Family phrasal verbs
- Functional focus – Expressing congratulations
- Writing task – Write an article describing the person who has most affected your life.
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