GRAMMAR:
- Narrative tenses. Verb patterns. Present perfect continuous. Relative clauses. Conditional structures: unless, even if, in case of. Necessity, obligation and permission. Past plans and intentions. Indirect and negative questions. Clauses of purpose: to, so as to, in order to/ that, so that. Comparative and superlative structures. Causative have and get. Reflexive pronons. So and such. Reported speech. Passives. Third conditional and should have.
VOCABULARY:
- Describing possessions. Materials. Personal preferences. Phrasal verbs: housework. Making changes. Collocations: feelings and behaviour. Pet hates. Work phrases. Truth and lies. Adjectives to describe films. News headlines: the news. Advertising, money. Challenges, idioms. Computer use, internet words. Phrases of advice. Presenting.
PRACTICAL ENGLISH:
- Leave phone messages. Talk about things that annoy you. Take part in an interview. Talk about the news. Sumarise information from different sources. Ask for and confirm information. Keep a conversation going. Give a presentation.