Speaking interaction and production objectives
- Take part fluently and effortlessly in any conversation and have a good familiarity with idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms.
- Present a clear, smoothly-flowing description or argument in a style appropriate to the context and with an effective logical structure
Listening objectives
- Understand any kind of spoken language, live or broadcast, at fast native speed, when you have some time to get familiar with the accent
Reading objectives
- Read with ease abstract, structurally or linguistically complex texts such as manuals, specialised articles and literary works.
Writing objectives
- Write clear, smoothly-flowing text in an appropriate style.
- Write complex letters, reports or articles which present a case with an effective logical structure.
- Write summaries and reviews of professional or literary works.
- Uses of continuous tenses
- Uses of would
- Articles
- Past Perfect
- Order of adverbs
- Order of adjectives
- Participles
- Modal verbs
- Ellipsis and elision
- Question tags
- Future Continuous
- Relative clauses
- Mixed conditionals
- Passive
- Inversions and negative adverbials
- Reported speech
- Astrology religions
- Nostalgia
- Coincidences and experiences
- Learning and educational systems
- Eccentricity individuality
- Creativity
- Age and cultural differences
- Gender
- Current affairs
- Diet and health
- Types of communication
- Moral and personal dilemmas
- Road and home safety and risk
- Environmental issues
- Children’s development
- Advertising
- Architecture
- Contradicting
- Instructing
- Describing
- Advising
- Expressing opinions formally and informally
- Checking and clarifying information
- Paraphrasing
- Expanding and Exemplifying
- Persuading and convincing
- Speculating
- Expressing annoyance
- Expressing regrets
- Comparing and contrasting
- Describing people and things and situations
