Course Overview

Capacitar al alumnado para utilizar el idioma con soltura y eficacia en situaciones habituales y más específicas que requieran comprender, producir y tratar textos orales y escritos, conceptual y lingüísticamente complejos, en una variedad de lengua estándar, con un repertorio léxico amplio aunque no muy idiomático, y que versen sobre temas generales, actuales o propios del campo de especialización del hablante. Este programa formativo proporcionará a los alumnos la formación en lengua inglesa necesaria para que puedan presentarse a las pruebas de acreditación oficial del nivel B2 del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCERL). UD1. Never judge a book by its cover.1.1. Grammar reference: Word formation.1.2. Grammar reference: More about adjectives.1.3. Grammar reference: Relative clauses.1.4. Grammar reference. Deduction: present and past.1.5. Writing tips. How to write an informal email.UD2. Down-to-earth.2.1. Grammar Reference. What’s in a noun?.2.2. Grammar reference: Modals and expressions of probability.2.3. Grammar reference: Conditionals. Alternatives to if.2.4. Grammar reference: Punctuation marks.2.5. Pronunciation Reference. Contractions/Linking.UD3. Home sweet home.3.1. Grammar reference: Verbs in a state!.3.2. Grammar reference: Modals of obligation/absence of obliga¬tion/prohibition/advice.3.3. Grammar reference: The imperative.3.4. Grammar reference: Have/Get something done.3.5. Writing tips. Follow this pattern.UD4. A penny for your thoughts.4.1. Grammar Reference. Infinitive and -ing.4.2. Vocabulari. Let’s Count.4.3. Reading. A rich man.4.4. Grammar Reference. Infinitive versus -ing.4.5. Grammar Reference. Saxon Genitive and Double Genitive.4.6. Vocabulary. Expressions.4.7. Grammar Reference. Participle clauses.UD5. Caught red-handed.5.1. Grammar reference: Order! Order.5.2. Grammar reference: Emphasis.5.3. Grammar reference: Inversions.5.4. Grammar reference: Tag questions.5.5. Grammar reference: Cleft sentences.5.6. Writing tips. Write a review.UD6. Out and about.6.1. Grammar Reference. Used to.6.2. Grammar Reference. Would.6.3. Grammar Reference. Narrative Tenses.6.4. Grammar Reference. Gradation of adverbs.6.5. Grammar Reference. About Prepositions.6.6. Vocabulary. Leisure: Travelling.6.7. Pronunciation Reference. Pronunciation of -ed.UD7. TV or not TV?.7.1. Grammar Reference. Impersonal report structures.7.2. Grammar reference. Characteristics headlines.7.3. Grammar Reference. Clauses expressing contrast.7.4. Pronunciation Reference. Contrastive intonation.UD8. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.8.1. Grammar reference: Reported speech. Reporting statements and commands.8.2. Grammar reference: Reporting questions and indirect ques¬tions.8.3. Vocabulary tip: Ache, Pain and Hurt.8.4. Writing tips.8.5. Pronunciation reference: Homographs and Homophones.UD9. No regrets just lessons learned.9.1. Grammar Reference. I wish/if only.9.2. Grammar Reference. Would rather/would sooner/had better.9.3. Grammar Reference. Group Nouns.9.4. Grammar Reference. It’s time/It’s about time/It’s high time.9.5. Vocabulary. False Friends.9.6. Pronunciation Reference. /s/ – /z/ – /?/.UD10. Facebook = Language facelift?.10.1. Grammar reference: Future continuous and perfect.10.2. Grammar reference: The future from past perspective.10.3. Vocabulary reference: Compounds with -ever.10.4. Grammar reference: Use of articles.10.5. Writing tips.10.6. Grammar reference. In short.10.7. Vocabulary. Dictionary advice.