Programa de Inglés Nivel 7

Prof. Cristina Nogueira

Vocabulary / Use of English.

- Word formation (nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, adverbial particles, open cloze /
multiple-choice cloze, key word transformations, gapped sentences, alternatives from
the same prompt word)
- Similar meanings. Words with more than one meaning (make, …).
- Animal idioms, Noise and Sounds, Music, Fighting crime, Smell, Time, Relationships,
Intelligence and ability, Sleep, Health, Amount, Anger, Doing things alone, Rooms and
houses, Sight, Eating and drinking, Deception, Money.
- Noun + preposition + noun phrases
- Prefixes (well-, off-, self-, low-, …)
- Nouns in formal English.
- Quantifying nouns (tons of, heaps of, bags of, a pile of, …).
- Collocations.
- Metaphorical meanings (icy stare, a sea of mud, …) .

Language Development.

- Emphasis: using negative introductory expressions (At no time, Not only, …+ inversion),
through fronting parts of the sentence (out they came…), What, It, …
- Comparatives and superlatives. Other ways of making comparisons (the more … ,the
more…)
- Reported Speech. Patterns after reporting verbs. Impersonal report structures.
- Gerunds and infinitives. Participle and to – infinitive clauses.
- Relative Clauses.
- Nouns, adjectives, verbs + prepositions. Prepositions + - ing verb.
- Confusing pairs (hear of – hear about, shout to – shout at, …)
- Modal verbs. Alternative ways of expressing future possibility.
- Past tenses. Hypothetical past situations.
- Future tenses.
- Present and future conditionals.
- Reference and ellipsis.
- Passive voice. Have/get sth done. Passives with get.
- Determiners and pronouns.
- Conjunctions and linking adverbials.
- Adverbs of degree.
- Verb and noun phrases.
Writing

- Attitude clauses and phrases / adverbials (Understandably, Generally speaking, Indeed,

…) .
- Reports. Proposals. Reviews. Competition Entries. Formal / Informal letters. Character
reference. Essays. Articles. Information sheets. Contributions. Set books.
- Sentence skills: accuracy (structure, punctuation, grammatical accuracy, choice of words
and spelling)
- Sentence variety.

Reading skills

- Multiple choice.
- Multiple matching.
- Gapped Text.

Listening Skills.

- Multiple Choice.
- Sentence completion.
- Multiple matching.

Speaking skills.

- Long turn.
- Collaborative task.
- Further discussion.
- Social interaction.

Bibliography.
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- Ready for CAE. (Updated for the revised CAE exam) Macmillan. (coursebook +
workbook)
- The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare.
- Through a glass, darkly; Donna Leon (set text for 2010)
- Advanced Expert CAE. New Edition. Pearson Longman (modules 8, 9 and 10: coursebook +
workbook)
- CAE Past Papers.CUP.