Speaking interaction and production objectives
- Speak regularly with native speakers.
- Discuss familiar topics in detail.
- Give your opinions and explain advantages and disadvantages.
Listening objectives
- Understand long speech and lectures and follow complex arguments if the topic is reasonably familiar.
- Understand most TV news and current affairs programmes.
- Understand the majority of films in common accents.
Reading objectives
- Read articles and reports about common topics
- Understand modern novels.
Writing objectives
- Write clearly and in detail about a wide range of subjects.
- Write an essay or report.
- Write letters about events and personal experiences.
- Used to + infinitive
- Past Simple and Present Perfect
- Neither / so do I
- Modal verbs
- Reported speech
- First, second conditional
- Adverbs of manner and modifiers
- Relative clauses
- Adjectives and their connotations
- Present Perfect Continuous
- Look + adjective, look like + noun
- Be able to/ can/manage to
- Passives
- Past Perfect Simple
- Have and have got
- Be allowed to and be supposed to
- A / few and a / little
- Although / in spite of /despite
- Question tags
- Education
- Appearances
- Clothes
- Character
- Make and do
- Housework
- Holidays and travel brochures
- Illness
- Cooking
- Weather
- Furniture and appliances
- Types of books, films, and TV programmes
- Crime and punishment
- Political systems
- Family relationships
- Pets and animals
- Consumer services
- Hotel facilities
- Affixes
- Participles
- Describing location, people and things
- Stating preferences and opinions
- Talking about obligation
- Reporting requests and orders
- Advising
- Making deductions
- Guessing
- Talking about possibility /probability and certainty
- Refusing
- Describing faulty goods
