I. USE OF ENGLISH (grammar and vocabulary) |
1. Phrasal and prepositional verbs.
2. Advanced conditional clauses.
3. Inversion.
4. Verb patterns:gerunds and infinitives, etc.
5. Advanced reported speech.
6. Advanced passive and causative structures.
7. Collocations and Register
Tasks: transformations, multiple choice, cloze test.
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II. LISTENING |
1. Casual conversation.
2. News and interviews.
3. Documentaries.
4. Academic lectures and debates.
5. Advertisements.
6. Films.
Tasks: mult¡ple choice, multiple matching, sentence completion. |
IV. READING |
1. Newspaper and magazine articles. Literary passages: structural analysis; key words and ideas.
2. Scientific articles and essays: paraphrasing; contrasting; summarising main ideas.
3. Reports and proposals: analysis, argumentation and assessment.
Tasks: multiple-choice text, gapped text, multiple matching. |
VI. SPEAKING |
Academic presentations on the topics discussed in class.
1. Aims and objectives.
2. Researching one's audience.
3. Presentation structure.
4. Script and visual aids.
5. Delivering one's presentation.
6. Handling questions.
Tasks: giving presentations, addressing an audience, answering questions, debating and contrasting ideas.
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