INGLÉS B2

Objetivos:

• Dispongan de los recursos lingüísticos y no lingüísticos necesarios para participar en los intercambios comunicativos con un grado de fluidez, precisión y naturalidad suficientes como para que sus interlocutores no tengan que hacer un esfuerzo especial;
• Tengan un nivel de conciencia de la lengua que les permite evitar errores que den lugar a malentendidos y utilizan suficientes recursos como para salvar situaciones de ambigüedad y aclarar lo que el interlocutor ha querido decir;
• Utilicen un repertorio lingüístico amplio, suficiente para expresarse con argumentos y matices, sin errores importantes de formulación y con una pronunciación clara;
• Consideren el efecto que producen sus comentarios y tienen en cuenta tanto la situación de comunicación como a sus interlocutores para adaptar el registro y el nivel de formalidad a las distintas circunstancias;
• Dispongan de capacidad lingüística suficiente como para plantear los detalles de un problema, presentar reclamaciones y resolver situaciones conflictivas recurriendo a su capacidad de argumentar y a un lenguaje persuasivo.

Contenido formativo:

NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
VOCABULARY Describing people: personality and appearance. Compound adjectives
GRAMMAR Defi ning and non-defi ning relative clauses. Modals for deduction (past and present)
WRITING An informal email
PRONUNCIATION Compound adjectives

DOWN-TO-EARTH
VOCABULARY Animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds
GRAMMAR Modals and expressions of probability. Conditionals. Alternatives to IF
WRITING An article
PRONUNCIATION Contractions. Linking

HOME SWEET HOME
VOCABULARY Types of housing. Places in the home. Housework. Phrasal verbs connected to people relations
GRAMMAR Modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice. Have/Get something done
WRITING A report
PRONUNCIATION Consonant clusters

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
VOCABULARY Money. Jobs
GRAMMAR Infi nitive versus –ing. Participle clauses
WRITING A covering letter
PRONUNCIATION Stress shift

CAUGHT RED-HANDED
VOCABULARY Crime. Criminals
GRAMMAR Emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions
WRITING An opinion composition
PRONUNCIATION How to sound emphatic

OUT AND ABOUT
VOCABULARY Leisure activities: Travelling. Extreme sports
GRAMMAR Used to, Would. Narrative tenses
WRITING A blog post
PRONUNCIATION-ED endings

TV OR NOT TV?
VOCABULARY Headlines. Television (people, TV programmes and a TV guide)
GRAMMAR Impersonal report structures. Contrast (despite, in spite of, although…)
WRITING A “for and against” composition
PRONUNCIATION Contrastive intonation

AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
VOCABULARY Health and illness. Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and Diet
GRAMMAR Reported speech. Reporting statements, commands and questions.
WRITING A complaint email/letter
PRONUNCIATION Homographs. Homophones

NO REGRETS JUST LESSONS LEARNED
VOCABULARY Feelings
GRAMMAR I wish/If only. Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´s time
WRITING A personal anecdote
PRONUNCIATION /s/ - /z/ - /?/

FACEBOOK = LANGUAGE FACELIFT?
VOCABULARY Compounds with –ever. The Internet. Fast Writing
GRAMMAR Future perfect and continuous. Use of the article for generalizing
WRITING A review
PRONUNCIATION Words pronounced differently in Spanish/English