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Advanced
Expert  & Mastery 
Become an Expert or Master Listener, Reader, Writer and Speaker.

 

This course will help you to understand the different ways we listen, read, write and speak.
The activities will give you the chance to practise your skills.

This course will help you to improve your general English
language abilities, while preparing for the International ESOL test. 

Listening

Become an Expert or Master Listener

READING

Become an Expert or Master Reader

writing

Become an Expert or Master Writer

SPEAKING

Become an Expert or Master Speaker

Become an Expert or Master Listener

Understanding register, stress/intonation, idiomatic and colloquial English.

Listening

Following a discussion

Part 4

 

Test practice - with tips from examiners.

Become an Expert or Master Reader

Understand idioms.

Appreciate how metaphors, similes and other literary devices are used.
Read between the lines.

Understanding text structure

Part 1 

  • Does the writer say this? – Deciding which sentences accurately reflect the meaning of the text.

  • Idioms - deciphering the meaning of idioms using context without using a dictionary.

  • Metaphors - Understanding use and meaning.

  • Similes -  Using similes to emphasis a point and make comparisons 

  • Spotting idioms, metaphors and similes – appreciate how metaphors, similes and other literary devices are used to accurately reflect the meaning of the text.

  • Reading between the lines - Being able to identify whether a statement exactly represents what is written in a text or not.

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Test practice - with tips from examiners.

Understanding the sequence of a text

Part 2

  • Reading English - Types of sentences - An introduction

  • Reference words - understanding the sequence of a text.

  • Cohesive devices - Recognising and using Cohesive devices.

  • Complex sentences - Understanding standard English even when complex sentence structures are used.

  • Types of sentences - Conclusion

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Test Practice - with tips from examiners.

Understanding the purpose of a text

Part 3

  • Writer’s purpose - Skimming and scanning.

  • Intended audience - A matter of register.

  • Writer’s opinion - Positive or negative nuances and connotations; and emphatic words.

  • Identifying purpose -Reading for general meaning and specific content and avoiding distractors.

 

Test Practice - with tips from examiners.

Reading for key information

Part 4

  • Answering concisely - Reducing answers to three words without losing any important information.

  • Explaining in your own words - Using context to find an appropriate definition; academic phrases.

  • Gathering information - Summarising and recognising text development as well as locating specific information and opinion; Reading between the lines, inferring meaning and spotting rhetorical devices like irony.

 

Test practice - with tips from examiners.

Reading

Become an Expert or Master Writer

Identifying the specified purposes of tasks.
Structuring your argument or point of view.
Planning in order to ensure that all relevant content is included.
Selecting a style of writing appropriate to the target reader.
Checking to locate and correct errors.

Writing

Writing a formal response

Part 1 

  • What do we write? - What are you expected to produce at C1/C2 Expert and Mastery levels.

  • You are the expert - Effective writing and making a positive impression on the target reader; Conventions that characterise different types of formal writing.

  • Formal letters - differing degrees of formality; content and style.

  • Articles - Degrees of formality and capturing the reader’s attention and interest; putting yourself in the position of the target reader.

  • Reports - How present facts and recommendations clearly and efficiently; structure and layout.

  • Constructing an argument - Producing discursive compositions, 

 

Test Practice - with tips from examiners.

Writing on a topic

Part 2

  • Every picture tells a story…Painting a picture with words; choosing vocabulary appropriate to the task; The importance of planning; Making an impression.

  • Narratives - Organising and writing into a logical sequence and using the correct verb forms and structures to express past-time notions.

  • Informal letters - Selecting the appropriate language and functions to appear more informal and natural.

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Test Practice - with tips from examiners.

Become an Expert or Master Speaker

The activities in this course will give you a chance to practise speaking English.
It builds on the vocabulary and grammar you already know and will help you
learn more.

The activities are designed to build your confidence in key areas:
effective communication, accuracy,
range, pronunciation and fluency.

Speaking

Giving personal information

Part 1 

  • Sounds interesting  

  • What’s in a name?

  • Study experience and achievements

  • Travel

  • Personal strengths and weaknesses

  • Who we are

  • The world of work

  • Speaking of English

  • Looking back and looking forward

 

Test practice - with tips from examiners.

Social situations

Part 2

  • Asking questions and giving information

  • Advising and making suggestions

  • Persuading, insisting, responding to persuasion

  • Complaining and resolving problems

  • Expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

  • Describing things, places and people

  • Narrating and remembering

  • Expressing feelings

 

ùTest Practice - with tips from examiners.

Exchanging information and opinions

Part 3

  • Surveys and questionnaires

  • Planning campaigns

  • Ranking and prioritising

  • Preparing itineraries

  • Discussion and elimination

  • Reasoning and choosing ‘the most’ and ‘the least’

  • Agreeing and disagreeing

  • Preparing for the test

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Test Practice - with tips from examiners.

Presenting a topic

Part 4

  • Favourite places

  • New challenges and mixed feelings

  • A classic of its kind

  • Proverbs

  • Storytelling

  • Influential people

  • Personal landmarks

  • Resolutions and good intentions

 

Test practice - with tips from examiners.

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Advanced
Expert  & Mastery 
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