Advanced
Expert & Mastery
Become an Expert or Master Listener, Reader, Writer and Speaker.
T his course will help you to understand the different ways we listen, read, write and speak.
The activities will give you the chance to practice your skills.
This course will help you to improve your general English
language abilities, while preparing for the International ESOL test.
Become an Expert or Master Listener
Understanding register, stress / intonation, idiomatic and colloquial English.
Listening to respond
Part 1
Stress matters! The importance of stress and intonation in functional language
Phrasal verbs - 'Work it out!' Understanding phrasal verbs in their natural context.
Idioms - 'Can I give you a hand?' The expression of ideas and feelings in a metaphorical rather than a literal way.
Formal or informal? - Becoming sensitive to the differing degrees of formality used in spoken English
Express yourself! feelings, opinions, attitudes, etc in everyday functional language
Test Practice - with tips from examiners.
Listening to dialogues
Part 2
Context, relationships and gist - Identifying the relationships between the speakers,
the context and the main gist of their conversations
Attitudes and opinions - Understanding how meaning can change based on the attitude and opinion of the speaker.
Feelings - What you say and how you say it! Understanding feelings and the situations that can give rise to them.
Test Practice - with tips from examiners.
Listening for key information
Part 3
Explorers: How to retain key information
Farming: What do you already know?
Cycling: Predicting the answers
Summarising in five words or less: paying attention to the words that are 'key' and those that can be omitted
Listening for information: developing the skills to extract relevant information and to identify redundant information from the body of a monologue.
Test Practice - with tips from examiners.
Following a discussion
Part 4
How fast should food be? Getting the gist of the discussion
Agreeing and disagreeing: Looking for key ideas and attitudes of the speakers and specific details or markers that signal whether a speaker is going to agree or disagree with something that has just been said
Travel and tourism: The difference between fact and opinion; knowing what kinds of opinion or idea you should be listening for and identifying distracting material.
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.
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 - Recognizing and using Cohesive devices.
Complex sentences - Understanding standard English even when complex sentence structures are used.
Types of sentences - Conclusion
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 recognizing 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.
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 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 characterize 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 - Organizing 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.
Test Practice - with tips from examiners.
Become an Expert or Master Speaker
The activities in this course will give you a chance to practice 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 con fi dence in key areas:
effective communication, accuracy,
range, pronunciation and fl uency.
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
Test Practice - with tips from examiners.
Exchanging information and opinions
Part 3
Surveys and questionnaires
Planning campaigns
Ranking and prioritizing
Preparing itineraries
Discussion and elimination
Reasoning and choosing 'the most' and 'the least'
Agreeing and disagreeing
Preparing for the test
Test Practice - with tips from examiners.
Presenting a topic
Part 4
Favorite places
New challenges and mixed feelings
A classic of its kind
Proverbs
Storytelling
In fl uential people
Personal landmarks
Resolutions and good intentions
Test practice - with tips from examiners.
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Expert & Mastery
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