První část, úroveň C1.1
Skills
- Assessing and highlighting someone's behaviour
- Telling a story
- Caricaturing
- Detailed description of a painting
- Describing through comparison
- Talking about an action as a process or as a result
- Bringing up a memory: introductory phrases
- Talking about and describing the past
- Remembering someone who has died
- Arguing for and against with specific examples
- Taking part in a debate
- Using devices to keep a conversation going
- Expressing wishes and cursing
- Expressing feelings
- Reacting to something
- Expressing will, wishes, prohibition, orders and requests in order to influence others
- Giving an opinion or point of view on something
- Influencing other people
- Giving softened orders and commands
- Giving permission
- Repeating an order
- Giving advice and instructions
Grammar
- Contrasting ser/estar
- Expressions with ser/estar + preposition
- Idiomatic expressions with ser/estar
- Emphatic structures with the verb ser
- The passive voice
- The historic present
- The use of and the relationship between the past tenses in the indicative
- pretérito indefinido, perfecto, imperfecto, pluscuamperfecto
- The conditional with past meaning
- Noun clauses
- Verbs and expressions for reaction, will, feeling, wish, prohibition, order, advice, request, mental activity, communication, perception and certainty
- ser + adjective (true or false) + que
- Ojalá, así + subjuntivo
- Verbs with two meanings depending on whether they take the indicative or the subjunctive
- The imperative
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Doubling of object pronouns
- Structures for orders and instructions: presente de indicativo, a + infinitivo/sustantivo, (se ruega) + infinitivo/(se ruega que), que + subjuntivo (he dicho/te digo)
Vocabulary
- Humorous text: joke, cartoon, comic strip, stand-up
- Requests, pleas, insistence
- Vocabulary of humour
- Dictionary abbreviations
- Homophones
- Announcement text
- Radio interview
- Celebratory text
- Theatre review
- Blog
- Argumentative text: theatre funding
- Theatre posters
- Vocabulary and expressions of the theatre
- Survey
- Personality test
- Internet forum about love
- Testimony
- Extract from a doctoral thesis
- Words of Latin and Greek origin
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Happiness and shopping
- Advertising copy and its social and cultural impact
- Specialist announcement
- Readers' forum
- Extract from a novel
- Vocabulary of advertising
- The language of advertising