Curso de Inglés First Certificate

S: asking and speculating about the kind of person someone is;

Common questions about feelings

R: article on medicine in the future

S: talking about medical advances and if various medical practices are a good idea

R: article about unusual Hollywood films

S: language used in discussions; discussions about where to go,

What to do

R: story about a strange underwater journey

S: talking about different kinds of living space, how to survive on a desert island;

The downsides of scientific and technological discoveries

R: travel book extract on Liechtenstein

S: comparing and contrasting means of travel, places to visit

R: articles about the pressures on students from school

S: comparing schools, talking about problems at school

R: text about the mystery about the world’s oldest monuments

S: comparing and contrasting photos of places

R: article about child labour

S: comparing working spaces; deciding how to staff a theme park

R: article about different types of shoppers

S: discussing brand choices, identifying where shop signs appeared

R: article about a young woman who was mugged

S: talking about what to take with you for a safe holiday; protecting a luxury home

R: article about getting around Rome

S: talking about traffic in town centres

R: text about working for newspapers

S: different forms of speculation; speculating about content of news items

R: text about the rise and fall of an unusual Olympic athlete

S: speculating about pictures

R: article about a special beach and ski slope

S: talking about good places to go on holiday and live

V: adjectives prepositions describing feelings/behaviour; verbs/phrases for talking about annoyance/irritation

P: linking

G: modal verbs

V: words related to illness

P: word stress

G: the simple past tense and ‘used to’

V: easily confused –ing and –ed adjectives; words/phrases for enjoyment/amusement

G: present simple and continuous tenses; time adverbs

V: different kinds of gadgets; compound nouns

P: word stress on compound nouns

G: the passive

V: verbs of motions; phrases with way; easily confused words

G: uses of adjectives and adverbs

V: school subjects; adjectives for describing school subjects and attitudes

P: sentence stress

G: present perfect tense

V: words for talking about location and distance

P: intonation for questions, statements and responses

G: past tenses: past simple, past continuous and past perfect

V: word building using prefixes and suffixes

P: definite and indefinite articles

V: phrasal verbs used when talking about clothes; easily confused words connected with goods and shopping

P: stress in compound nouns

G: transitive and intransitive verbs; object patterns after verbs

V: crimes and criminals; words relating to personal security

G: defining and non-defining relative clauses

V: verbs and prepositions for daily travel

G: past tense of some modals

V: in or on; different forms of media; words for tabloid content

P: sentence stress

G: future forms and uses; conjunctions and the use of the future

V: word endings commonly confused; verbs for talking about success and failure

P: weak forms

G: forms and uses of comparative adjectives and adverbs

V: weather words

G: the second conditional

W: different types of letters (audience and purpose)

L: radio programme in which a doctor gives advice in reply to letters

W:formal and informal letters

L: people in different leisure situations

W: letters; studying the question, checking and editing

L: a series of people talking about different gadgets;

discussion about a discovery on the moon

W: letters; developing and organising ideas, drafting and checking

L: complaints by locals about different types of holidaymaker

W: informal letters to friends/family members; style and tone

L: people talk about their plans when they leave school

W: narrative compositions; tenses; conjunctions; order of events

L: a guided tour of underground New York

W: style and feature of narratives

L: careers adviser advises on choosing the right job

W: brainstorming ideas for writing a descriptive/narrative composition; using reference words

L: identifying service situations; nightmare hairdresser experiences

W: organisation and style of discursive compositions

L: a series of extracts from the news

W: organising and checking a discursive composition

L: a story about a confusing air trip

W: reports: layout and matching writing style to your reader

L: identifying media contexts; teenage viewing habits

W: organisation and style of articles and reports

L: report about the lives of a group of children in Romania

W: the style of articles; language found in articles

L: news reports on climate change; people talk about their ´green`plans

W: the organisation of reports

G: ways of combining modal verbs

V: words and collocations related to health; opposites

G: too and very; so and such

V: prepositions for dates and day; verbs for talking about time

P: homophones

G: common two-word question phrases

V: words related to science and technology

G: the impersonal passive

V: descriptive words, compound adjectives

P: compound word stress

G: order of adjectives and adverbs

V: useful words for applying for courses

G: prepositions of time

V: phrasal verbs with out or up

G: -ing forms after verbs of senses; -ing clauses

V: verbs related to applying for jobs

P: word stress

V: words and phrasal verbs for talking about service and payment

G: having things done

V: words related to crime

P: stress, intonation and sounds in connected speech

G: countable and uncountable nouns

V: words for travelling by air

P: intonation for continuing and finishing points

G: prepositions related to travelling by air

V: words for talking about media ´targets`

P: word stress

G: tense review

V: words for talking about numbers, rates and levels

P: degrees of comparison, superlatives

V: words related to the environment

P: contracted forms

G: the third conditional

Paper 1 Reading Part 2: Multiple Choice

Paper 2 Writing Parts 1 and 2 : Letter Writing

Paper 3 Use of English Parts 1 and 2 : Multiple Choice Cloze and Open cloze

Paper 4 Listening Parts 1, 3 and 4 : Multiple Choice and Multiple Matching

Paper 5 Speaking Part 1: Interview

Paper 1 Reading Parts 1 and 4: Multiple Matching

Paper 3 Use of English Parts 3 and 5: ´Key` word-transformation task and Word formation

Paper 5 Speaking Parts 3 and 4: Collaborative task and Discussion