C1 — VELMI POKROČILÍ

• Základní učebnice: Roadmap C1-C2
• Rozdělení kurzu:

C1-I: U1-3

C1-II: U4-7

C1-III: U8-10

Profil studenta: Student rozumí delším promluvám, televizním programům a filmům, umí se vyjadřovat plynule a pohotově a rozumí i dlouhým a složitým textům.

OBSAH KURZU:

C1-I 

Topics:

• Team building: giving feedback on an event
• Describing someone’s reaction to a situation
• Justifying a point of view
• Joining a conversation already in progress
• Changes: giving a presentation on past, current and future trends
• Speculating about work situations
• Discussing a proposal
• Managing a fast-paced conversation
• Ideas: using brainstorming techniques
• Solving a problem
• Fact or fiction? Discussing how to fact-check news stories
• Summarising information

Vocabulary:

• Phrases with delexical verbs
• Idioms for expressing and controlling emotions
• Connotations
• Socialising
• Trends
• Agreements and disagreements
• Ideas
• Problems and solutions
• The news and reporting
• Idioms related to clarity

Grammar:

• Present, past and future perfect
• Subject raising
• Infinitive phrases
• The continuous aspect
• Probability
• Cleft sentences
• Question forms
• Reason clauses
• Modifying adjectives

C1-II 

Topics:

• High emotions: talking about personal experiences
• Discussing political or social issues
• Answering questions about abstract topics
• Resolving conflicts in negotiations
• Discussing unsung heroes
• Telling an anecdote
• Discussing problems and hypothesising solutions
• Politely refusing a request
• Dystopias: discussing abstract topics about society
• Presenting formal recommendations
• Choosing a sign or marketing slogan
• Taking part in a panel discussion
• How to plan an unconventional journey
• Talking about  financial problems
• Discussing skills and abilities
• Chairing and participating in a debate

Vocabulary:

• Anxiety and excitement
• Adjective + noun collocations
• The senses
• Negotiating
• Importance and usefulness
• Risk, success and failure
• Near-synonyms
• Excuses
• Making connections
• Responding to ideas
• Idioms related to exploration
• Deception
• Skills and abilities
• Debates

Grammar:

• Non-future uses of will
• Real conditionals
• Giving impressions
• Linking devices
• Unreal conditionals
• Hypothetical language
• The passive
• Making formal recommendations
• Comparatives
• Determiners
• Relative clauses
• Reduced relative clauses and similar structures

C1-III

Topics:

• Carrying out a survey
• Describing a pivotal moment in life
• Survival tips: making a list
• Dealing with problems on a call
• Relating a non-chronological narrative
• Taking part in a work-based conversation
• Discussing a course of action
• Answering questions in a job interview in detail
• Presenting a new idea
• Explaining the rules of a game
• Discussing approaches to language learning
• Delivering a progress report

Vocabulary:

• Idioms related to feelings
• Decision making and reflection
• Idioms related to risk
• Making a call
• Verb–adverb collocations
• Gossip and rumours
• Improvement and deterioration
• Employability and competencies
• Collocations: innovation
• Board games
• Evaluating
• Success and failure

Grammar:

• Describing habits and compulsions
• The future in the past
• Emphasising advice
• Narrative tenses
• Reported speech
• Participle clauses and verbless clauses
• Emphasis and persuasion
• Heads and tails
• Concession clauses