• 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.

Art in your life

• Inversion with adverbial expressions.
• Visual art.
• Other kinds of inversions: Neither do I, so did you.
• Idioms with art words.
• Adding emphasis: Cleft sentences.
• Word formation with the word “art”.
• Do/did for emotive or contrastive emphasis.
• On “art quality”

Notes and spare change

• Ellipsis: reduced infinitives.
• Word formation of “pay” and idioms.
• Ellipsis: omission of the main verb after a modal or auxiliary verb.
• Money matters.
• Clauses: defining and non-defining clauses.
• Money sayings.
• Participle Clauses.
• Deadly money disorders

Caught red-handed

• Reported speech and reporting verbs.
• Crime and Justice, Reported questions, imperatives, requests and passive.
• Law and power idioms.
• The subjunctive.
• Word formation: moral, power, govern.
• Fixed subjunctive expressions and alternatives to subjunctive.
• Idioms with 'word'

Well-oiled machine

• ‘Seem’ and ‘appear’.
• Progress.
• Linking clauses of reason and result.
• Quality control Linking clauses of purpose.
• Technology idioms.
• Infinitives, -ing forms and verb patterns
• Collocations on "purpose", “energy”, “date”.

Breaking news!

• Linking words and expressions.
• Miscellaneous media vocabulary.
• Punctuation, spelling and most common mistakes.
• Giving and withholding information.
• Nominalisation.
• Patterns on "discussion".
• British and American English grammar and usage.
• Slang terminology in Social Media