Curso de *Inglés General Nivel Intermedio Medio_Online

TEMARIO:

UNIDAD 1: WELL-BEING
• Text
- News report on research
• Vocabulary
- Health and happiness
• Grammar
- possessive s vs of constructions
- can, could
- pattern: the N of –ing
• Tape
- Song
- Telling anecdotes
- Sound-spelling

UNIDAD 2: JOB HUNTING
• Text
- Job application letter
• Vocabulary
- Careers and jobs;
- Noun modifiers
• Grammar
- Tense review
- Experience: Past simple and present perfect
- Obligation: Have to, need to, should
• Tape
- Job interview
• Takeaway
- Checking facts
• Pronunciation
- Intonation of question tags
• Writing
- Job application letter

UNIDAD 3: MOBILE PHONES
• Text
- Human interest news story
• Vocabulary
- Technology
- Operating equipment
• Grammar
- Prepositions
- Verbs to describe processes
• Tape
- Pros and cons of new technology
• Takeaway
- Telephoning
• Pronunciation
- Word stress for clarif-ication
• Writing
- Human interest news story

UNIDAD 4: HUMAN EXPRESS-IONS
• Text
- Feature article about smiling
• Vocabulary
- Verbs associated with the face
- False, fake etc; to tell if...
• Grammar
- Sense verbs
- Pronouns with in definite reference
- Pattern: find it difficult to...
• Tape
- Interview with personologist
• Takeaway
- Emphasising opinions, compl-imenting
• Pronunciation
- Sentence stress to qualify opinion
• Writing
- Feature article about personality

UNIDAD 5: FILMS
• Text
- Film review
• Vocabulary
- Words associated with films
- Types of films
• Grammar
- Tenses in reviews
- Fronted participle clauses
- Cohesive devices - contrast
• Tape
- 3 people describing recently seen films
• Takeaway
- Giving opinions about films
• Pronunciation
- Pron-ouncing famous names
• Writing
- Film review

UNIDAD 6: CRIME
• Text
- Human interest news story
• Vocabulary
- Things that go wrong
- Crime language
- Phrasal verbs with break
• Grammar
- Present perfect for recent events
- Passive constructions
• Tape
- Radio news
• Takeaway
- Reacting to bad news
• Pronunciation
- Weak forms
• Writing
- Personal anecdote

UNIDAD 7: SHOPPING
• Text
- 3 short news stories
• Vocabulary
- Shops & shopping
- Prices and money
- Borrow vs lend
• Grammar –ing forms
- Adjective
- Part of verb phrase
- After preposition after verb
• Tape
- Radio advertisement
• Takeaway
- Returning items to shops
• Pronunciation
- Numbers and prices
• Writing
- Guide to local shopping

UNIDAD 8: GADGETS AND TOYS
• Text
- Children’s hobby book inst-ructions
• Vocabulary
- DIY language
- Adjective order
• Grammar
- Phrasal verbs
- Sequencing instructions
- By + -ing
- Should, so that
• Tape
- Descriptions of different toys
• Takeaway
- Vague language
• Pronunciation
- Sound – spelling: the letter i
• Writing
- Description and instructions

UNIDAD 9: PERSONAL PROBLEMS
• Text
- Problem page letters
• Vocabulary
- Negative feelings
- Give + noun
- Problems, trouble etc
- Blame
• Grammar
- Giving advice (should, ought, why not....?)
- Unreal conditional
- Negation
• Tape
- Radio phone-in problems
• Takeaway
- Expressing surprise
• Pronunciation
- Contr-actions & weak forms
• Writing
- Advice for a problem

UNIDAD 10: UNLIKELY ANIMALS
• Text
- Magazine feature
• Vocabulary
- Animal vocab
- Size and shape
- Evidence
• Grammar
- Speculating about past (may/might have been etc)
- Report + ing; see someone do/doing
- Since then + present perfect
• Tape
- Reports of UFO sighting
• Takeaway
- Expressing certainty and doubt
• Pronunciation
- Stress in long words
• Writing
- Report of sighting