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General English Advanced Course Outline

English learning for advanced students

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General English Advanced Course Outline

English learning for advanced students

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Advanced / CEFR C2

Any student coming in at the Advanced or Proficient* level will be able to understand, with ease, virtually
everything heard or read. At this level, students can summarise information from different spoken and written
sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent and cohesive way. They can express themselves
spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex
situations.
Areas covered at this level:

Language focus Vocabulary


 avoiding repetition  phrasal verbs – literal & idiomatic
 reduced infinitives  describing trends / comparing statistics
 synonyms in context  synonyms & antonyms
 tense review – simple & continuous  proverbs & poetry
 tense review – prefect & non-perfect  nouns from phrasal verbs
 tense review – active & passive  metaphors & idioms
 adverb collocation  homonyms / homophones / homographs
 discourse markers  sports & activities
 ways of adding emphasis  geographical expressions – topographical /
 Passive constructions meteorological
 seem / appear  adjective order
 Modals – present, future & past - -
probability / obligation / permission /
ability / habit
 Past tenses to express unreal/unlikely
situations
 verb patterns
 intensifying adverbs
 relatives & participles
 linking devices – conjunctions / adverbs /
infinitives / relative pronouns / participles
Speaking Writing
all topics at this level will require the student  formal & informal letters & emails
to interact using a variety of the following:  storytelling
 business reports
 discussions  pros & cons
 information gaps  giving personal opinions
 simulations  letters to a newspaper / magazine
 roleplays  describing personal experiences
 predicting  reviewing
 retelling  personal profiles
 bringing writing to life

* Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Global Scale

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