This intensive Grammar and Vocabulary Advanced course is ideally combined with the Conversation, Discussion and Presentation - Advanced training as well as the Academic Writing Workshop - Advanced.
In this course participants revise and train advanced grammar and expand their vocabulary to better understand written texts as well as oral interaction. Grammar and vocabulary training are embedded in academic and professional reading and listening exercises that aim to improve reading and listening comprehension as well as extend range and correctness of expression.
Participants will have the option of training the Listening as well as the Reading and Use of English papers from the "Cambridge English: Advanced" (CAE) exam.
Grammar areas:
- Sophisticated use of tenses
- Active and passive
- Conditionals
- Direct and reported speech
- Phrasal verbs
- Linking devices
Vocabulary:
- Emotions and thinking
- Location and the environment
- Science and society
Functions:
- Cause and effect
- Assessing and evaluating
- Predicting and speculating
- Describing change and trends