advanced level contents

ADVANCED LEVEL CONTENT

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA

VICERRECTORIA DE RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES

CEAD BARRANQUILLA

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Present simple and continuous.

Everyday activities

Finding things in common with others.

¨How we really spend our time¨

Pen pals

2. Have got/ Has got

People around you

3. How do you spend your time?

4. Do you spend your time chatting on the internet?

MODULE 1ALL ABOUT YOU

MODULE 2MEMORY

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Past simple and continuous.

Time expressions in the past

Pronunciation of verbs ending –ed.

The way I met my husband

Do you remember…? Article

2. Used to Remembering and forgetting

Talking about your childhood

Improving your memory

3. Verbs in past ending -ed

MODULE 3ALL AROUND THE WORLD

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Comparatives and superlatives.

Natural wonders and geographical features

Compare in pairs cities and places

Places to visit before you die

Design a brochure to recommend a place

2. Slightly/ Much

Adjectives to describe cities.

Booking a flight

3. A little bit/ A lot

MODULE 4LIFE STORIES

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Present perfect simple

Life events People you admire

¨Parallel lives¨ Write your 1-page CV according to the model.

2. Present perfect continuous

Positive and negative characteristics.

¨Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen¨

3. since, for, ago

Expressions using ¨Take¨

Jobs

MODULE 5SUCCESS

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Future forms Words related to work and education

Formal phone calls

Have you got what it takes?

Write a covering letter.

2. If/ when Applying for a job expressions

Doing something different discussions.

MODULE 6IN THE MEDIA

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Adjectives: ing, ed ending.

TV and radio vocabulary.

Recommending and giving opinions about books, films , TV shows or games.

Newspaper stories.

Writing a review of a film

2. The passive Feelings

MODULE 7SOCIALISING

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. ¨Will¨ for offers and decisions

Polite requests Talk about social behaviour in your country.

The great international night out

Write an article about night life in your city.

Social behaviour

Accepting or rejecting invitations

Visiting Thailand

Common phrases with go

MODULE 8THINGS YOU CAN´T LIVE WITHOUT

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Relative clauses

Technology Go around asking partners about objects they would hate to be without

Machines behaving badly.

Write about inventions in the near future

2. Quantifiers Describing everyday objects.

Buying things: food, objects, clothes etc.

MODULE 9FUTURE SOCIETY

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Making predictions

Phrases with make.

Explaining advantages and disadvantages about things.

Getting it wrong, getting it right.

Write a text predicting about the future of the world.

2. First conditional

Ways of saying numbers.

Talking about hypothetical situations.

MODULE 10AN AMAZING STORY

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY AND REAL LIFE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

READING WRITING

1. Past perfect Types of stories.

Talking about ghost stories using adverbs.

The perfect crime.

Making up a story from pictures.

2. Reported speech

crime

3. Adverbs and connectors for telling stories

Say vs tell