Objetivos:

• Capacitar al alumnado para utilizar el idioma con flexibilidad, eficacia y precisión para participar en todo tipo de situaciones, en los ámbitos personal, público, académico y profesional, que requieran comprender, producir y procesar textos orales y escritos extensos y complejos, en diversas variedades estándar de la lengua, con un repertorio léxico amplio, y que versen sobre temas tanto abstractos como concretos, incluso aquellos con los que el hablante no esté familiarizado.

Contenidos:

1. Art in your life
   1. Inversion with adverbial expressions.
   2. Visual art.
   3. Other kinds of inversions: Neither do I, so did you.
   4. Idioms with art words.
   5. Adding emphasis: Cleft sentences.
   6. Word formation with the word “art”.
   7. Do/did for emotive or contrastive emphasis.
   8. On “art quality”
2. Notes and spare change
   1. Ellipsis: reduced infinitives.
   2. Word formation of “pay” and idioms.
   3. Ellipsis: omission of the main verb after a modal or auxiliary verb.
   4. Money matters.
   5. Clauses: defining and non-defining clauses.
   6. Money sayings.
   7. Participle Clauses.
   8. Deadly money disorders
3. Caught red-handed
   1. Reported speech and reporting verbs.
   2. Crime and Justice, Reported questions, imperatives, requests and passive.
   3. Law and power idioms.
   4. The subjunctive.
   5. Word formation: moral, power, govern.
   6. Fixed subjunctive expressions and alternatives to subjunctive.
   7. Idioms with ‘word’
4. Well-oiled machine
   1. ‘Seem’ and ‘appear’.
   2. Progress.
   3. Linking clauses of reason and result.
   4. Quality control Linking clauses of purpose.
   5. Technology idioms.
   6. Infinitives, -ing forms and verb patterns
   7. Collocations on «purpose», “energy”, “date”.
5. Breaking news!
   1. Linking words and expressions.
   2. Miscellaneous media vocabulary.
   3. Punctuation, spelling and most common mistakes.
   4. Giving and withholding information.
   5. Nominalisation.
   6. Patterns on «discussion».
   7. British and American English grammar and usage.
   8. Slang terminology in Social Media