Speaking

• communicating in social situations,
• communicating in professional and intercultural environment,
• telephoning: making enquiries, making arrangements, complaining,
• focusing on functions: agreeing and disagreeing,
• giving opinions, interrupting and dealing with interruptions, asking for clarification,
• discussing a wide range of personal and study / work related topics: culture and cross-cultural relations, university and business related,
• environment, training and development, describing,
• innovative products and services, business travel,
• buying and selling,
• focusing on pronunciation: word and sentence,
• stress, sound linking.

Listening

• understanding real life situations,
• following instructions,
• listening for general meaning, details, pronunciation, stress and intonation reading,
• understanding written instructions,
• understanding story sequence,
• understanding authentic writing.

Writing

• organising writing,
• using a range of styles,
• writing formal and informal letters and emails,
• writing CVs and letters of application.

Grammar

• revision of tenses,
• conditionals,
• question forms,
• comparatives,
• dependent prepositions,
• relative clauses,
• indirect speech.

Vocabulary

• building a personal lexicon based on topical vocabulary,
• business vocabulary,
• formal and informal vocabulary.

Academic Speaking

• communicating in seminars and tutorials,
• delivering an oral presentation,
• focusing on functions: expressing and justifying opinions, explaining, suggesting, speculating, analysing, summarising, narrating,
• recognising a range of styles,
• speaking without hesitating.

Academic Listening

• understanding lectures and tutorials,
• following presentations,
• note taking.

Academic Reading

• understanding specialist and non-specialist,
• academic writing,
• identifying text types,
• scanning and skimming.

Academic Writing

• organising writing,
• expressing fact and opinion,
• describing and comparing graphs and tables,
• describing processes,
• writing a report,
• writing a summary,
• writing an argumentative essay,
• using quotations,
• paraphrasing,
• recognising levels of formality.

Grammar for Academic Purposes

• understanding choice of tense,
• impersonal style and passive constructions,
• modal verbs,
• forming complex noun phrases,
• changing emphasis in a sentence,
• expressing causality and purpose.

Vocabulary for Academic Purposes

• language for classifying,
• word formation,
• confusable words,
• technical and semi-technical vocabulary,
• researching specialist vocabulary.