Curso: Inglés B2

· Capacitar al alumnado para utilizar el idioma con soltura y eficacia en situaciones habituales y más específicas que requieran comprender, producir y tratar textos orales y escritos, conceptual y lingüísticamente complejos, en una variedad de lengua estándar, con un repertorio léxico amplio aunque no muy idiomático, y que versen sobre temas generales, actuales o propios del campo de especialización del hablante.

· Este programa formativo proporcionará a los alumnos la formación en lengua inglesa necesaria para que puedan presentarse a las pruebas de acreditación oficial del nivel B2 del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas

UD1. Never judge a book by its cover.

• 1.1. Grammar reference: Word formation.
• 1.2. Grammar reference: More about adjectives.
• 1.3. Grammar reference: Relative clauses.
• 1.4. Grammar reference. Deduction: present and past.
1.5. Writing tips. How to write an informal email.

UD2. Down-to-earth.

• 2.1. Grammar Reference. What’s in a noun?.
• 2.2. Grammar reference: Modals and expressions of probability.

• 2.3. Grammar reference: Conditionals. Alternatives to if.
• 2.4. Grammar reference: Punctuation marks.
2.5. Pronunciation Reference. Contractions/Linking.

UD3. Home sweet home.

• 3.1. Grammar reference: Verbs in a state!.
• 3.2. Grammar reference: Modals of obligation/absence of obliga¬tion/prohibition/advice.
• 3.3. Grammar reference: The imperative.
• 3.4. Grammar reference: Have/Get something done.
3.5. Writing tips. Follow this pattern.

UD4. A penny for your thoughts.

• 4.1. Grammar Reference. Infinitive and -ing.
• 4.2. Vocabulari. Let’s Count.

• 4.3. Reading. A rich man.
• 4.4. Grammar Reference. Infinitive versus -ing.

• 4.5. Grammar Reference. Saxon Genitive and Double Genitive.
• 4.6. Vocabulary. Expressions.
4.7. Grammar Reference. Participle clauses.

UD5. Caught red-handed.

• 5.1. Grammar reference: Order! Order.
• 5.2. Grammar reference: Emphasis.
• 5.3. Grammar reference: Inversions.
• 5.4. Grammar reference: Tag questions.
• 5.5. Grammar reference: Cleft sentences.
5.6. Writing tips. Write a review.

UD6. Out and about.

• 6.1. Grammar Reference. Used to.
• 6.2. Grammar Reference. Would.
• 6.3. Grammar Reference. Narrative Tenses.
• 6.4. Grammar Reference. Gradation of adverbs.
• 6.5. Grammar Reference. About Prepositions.
• 6.6. Vocabulary. Leisure: Travelling.
6.7. Pronunciation Reference. Pronunciation of -ed.

UD7. TV or not TV?.

• 7.1. Grammar Reference. Impersonal report structures.
• 7.2. Grammar reference. Characteristics headlines.
• 7.3. Grammar Reference. Clauses expressing contrast.
7.4. Pronunciation Reference. Contrastive intonation.

UD8. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• 8.1. Grammar reference: Reported speech. Reporting statements and commands.
• 8.2. Grammar reference: Reporting questions and indirect ques¬tions.
• 8.3. Vocabulary tip: Ache, Pain and Hurt.
• 8.4. Writing tips.
8.5. Pronunciation reference: Homographs and Homophones.

UD9. No regrets just lessons learned.

• 9.1. Grammar Reference. I wish/if only.
• 9.2. Grammar Reference. Would rather/would sooner/had better.
• 9.3. Grammar Reference. Group Nouns.
• 9.4. Grammar Reference. It’s time/It’s about time/It’s high time.
• 9.5. Vocabulary. False Friends.
9.6. Pronunciation Reference. /s/ – /z/ – /?/.

UD10. Facebook = Language facelift?.

• 10.1. Grammar reference: Future continuous and perfect.
• 10.2. Grammar reference: The future from past perspective.
• 10.3. Vocabulary reference: Compounds with -ever.
• 10.4. Grammar reference: Use of articles.
• 10.5. Writing tips.
• 10.6. Grammar reference. In short.
10.7. Vocabulary. Dictionary advice.