Speaking interaction and production objectives
- Speak fluently without searching for language.
- Communicate effectively in social and professional situations.
- Give ideas and opinions and relate your ideas to those of other speakers.
- Talk about of complex subjects and develop arguments.
Listening objectives
- Understand long complex speech.
- Understand most television programmes and films.
Reading objectives
- Understand long and complex factual and literary texts, with different styles.
- Understand specialised articles and long technical instructions.
Writing objectives
- Write long, clear, well-structured text to express your points of view.
- Write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report.
- Write in an appropriate style.
- Habit in the Present and the Past
- Present Perfect
- Simple and Present Perfect Continuous
- Past Simple and Past Continuous and Past Perfect
- Question tags
- Will. going to, Present Simple, Present Continuous for the future
- Future Perfect
- Phrasal verbs
- Zero, first, second and third conditionals
- Wish and if only
- Passive
- Compounds of some, any, no, every.
- Reported speech
- Relative clauses
- Conjunctions: although, despite, in spite of , otherwise, unless
- Modals: present and perfect
- Always for frequency /+ present continuous
- Affixes
- Collocations
- Work, working conditions
- Approximations with -ish
- Transport and exploration
- Phrasal verbs
- Crime and punishment
- Relationships
- Festivals and celebrations
- Connotation
- Homonyms
- Idiomatic expressions
- Sport and leisure
- Euphemisms
- Adverbs of manner and modifiers
- Geography and climate
- Participle adjectives
- Banks / money
- Colloquial expressions and slang
- Giving opinions
- Summarising
- Expressing regret
- Drawing conclusions
- Making offers
- Describing cause and effect
- Stating purpose
- Emphasising
- Stating contrast
- Adding information
- Congratulating
- Commiserating
- Clarifying
- Guessing
- Order arguments
- Giving examples