Cambridge English C1 Advanced exam preparation course (Tuesday)

Who the course is for

This course is open to everyone aged 18 and over.

Entry requirements

Level B2 or similar recommended.

Aims

This course aims to prepare students for the Cambridge C1 Advanced exam with practice of the grammar, vocabulary, language skills, topics and exam skills needed for success in all four papers of the exam: Reading and Use of English, Writing, Listening and Speaking. Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to sit the Cambridge C1 Advanced exam

Syllabus

Cambridge English Advanced (C1) Exam Preparation course

ECTS

Syllabus and Materials:

Topics	Grammar	Vocabulary
People	Past tenses	Collocations with give and make
Languages	Expressing purpose, reason and result	Collocations with make, get and do
The mind	No, none, not	Nouns: countable and uncountable; formal/informal
Work and jobs	Passive forms	Dependent prepositions; adjective-noun collocations
Dramatic events	Verbs + infinitive/gerund	Idiomatic language
Pictures	Avoiding repetition	Adjective-noun collocations
Leisure and entertainment	Relative and participle clauses; apposition	Complex prepositions; money
The media	Reported speech; transitive verbs	‘Talking’ verbs
Transport and progress	Time clauses and prepositions	Action, activity, event and programme
Learning	Expressing ability, possibility and obligation	Chance, occasion, opportunity and possibility
Travel	Conditionals	Phrasal verbs; prepositions of location
The living world	Nouns and articles	Prepositions following verbs; word formation
Health and lifestyle	Comparing and contrasting	Prepositions following adjectives
Moving abroad	Adverbs; cleft sentences	Learn, find out and know; provide, offer and give

Qualification

Certificate of attendance for the preparation course

Management

Ryan Martin O'Shaughnessy

Native from New Zealand, is currently the Cambridge Centre Exams Manager at the Fundació UdG and an official speaking examiner (B2, C1 and C2). He has over 10 years of experience teaching English at all levels as well as organising Cambridge exam preparation courses.

Teaching staff

Abigail Marie Jones

From the Lake District, in the United Kingdom, she studied at the University of Liverpool where she obtained a double degree in Hispanic Studies and English. She also has two Masters degrees: one in Shakespeare, from the same university; and the other, from the University of Middlesex, in Novel Writing.

During the last decade, she has taught English classes to students of all ages and with different objectives, whether it be conversation for travel, lessons designed specifically for a particular job or focused on the Cambridge exams. She worked for six years in an academy in Cassà de la Selva and then four more years at The Hub, Girona, where she had the opportunity to design and teach her own English literature courses in civic centres.

*Management reserves the right to modify the teaching staff, if necessary, to ensure the levels of quality and professional category.

Teaching and Assessment

The course includes 60 classroom hours and 60 self-study hours.

The course will focus on:

- Task achievement: what this means and how to achieve it.
- Understanding the reasoning behind a task.
- Timing and planning.
- Accuracy and appropriacy.
- Skills: speaking, writing, listening, reading.
- The use and control of grammatical structures.
- Improving and expanding lexical range.

Assessment will be based on class based and homework activities.

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Cambridge English C1 Advanced exam preparation course (Tuesday)

Who the course is for

Entry requirements

Aims

Syllabus

Qualification

Management

Ryan Martin O'Shaughnessy

Teaching staff

Abigail Marie Jones

Teaching and Assessment

Evaluation system

Promoting entities

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