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INTERMEDIATE III

For students who are confident and capable English speakers and who have studied English for a considerable time before. They are able to express their wants and needs effectively although they lack vocabulary especially phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions. They can hold a conversation both face to face and on the phone. Again their main problem is fluency and vocabulary. They make mistakes and often have to think in order to find the vocabulary they require. Their listening skills are also lacking, they can understand only parts in films although when involved in a conversation they have little difficulty in understanding most ideas. Their fluency level is around 70% upon entry to the course.

Grammar Objetives

Review and reinforce previous course objectives :

• Past perfect cont
• The passive - present / past and present perfect passive
• Modals used in the past-should have would have, may have etc ...
• Prepositions of place, movement and time
• Conditionals 1, 2, 3 + mixed conditionals + conditionals with might,could ...
• As soon as, by the time, when
• Phrasal verbs 3 - see list
• Idioms 1 - see list
• Indirect questions
• Infinitive and gerund words and expressions
• How long +present perfect cont
• Homophones
• Reported speech 2 with more complex verbs of reporting -suggest ,warned ...
• Beside ,besides
• The definite article
• Adjectives with -ed and -ing the difference
• Adjectives which take a certain preposition
• Verbs which take a certain preposition

Oral Objetives

Students should be proficient in the followinge.

• Use in sentence and question form all the main tenses.
• Use the infinitive and gerund correctly with used to, be used to, look forward to
  and after prepositions
• Use the passive correctly
• Use the definite article correctly
• Use the conditionals
• Use modals in both the present and the past
• Employ the phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions included on the course

Material

The first half of the following text books with their respective audio and video material:

• New Headway Intermediate - Oxford University Press
• Business Objectives - Oxford University Press
• Workout Intermediate - Nelson
  and as reference books:
  Basic Grammar in Use - Cambridge University Press
  Essential Idioms in English - Prentice Hall Regents