Programa de Inglés

Nivel CAE
Prof. Cristina Nogueira

Syllabus – 2009

STUDENT´S BOOK AND WORKBOOK: Advanced Expert CAE (New Edition)

Extensive Reading: The Pelican Brief by John Grisham (Book and Film)

Language Development
Perfect and continuous tenses.
Expressions with future meaning.
Future in the past.
Passive forms.
Register.
Relative Clauses.
Words used with relative pronouns.
Replacing relative clauses.
Use of articles, determiners, pronouns and quantifiers.
Punctuation.
Modal verbs and alternatives to modals.
Word- formation.
Noun clauses.
Modifying gradable and ungradable adjectives.
Conditionals. Mixed conditionals.
Alternatives to if. Omission of if.
Emphasis (What, the thing that…, the place where…, the reason why…, It + be..,
using negative introductory expressions, through fronting parts of the sentence.)
Verb + -ing, to inf, object + to inf. Changes in meaning when using –ing or to inf.
With certain verbs.
Spelling rules.
Words that are easily confused.
Hyphens.
Spelling.
Past tenses for hypothetical meanings. Wish / If only.
Unreal tenses.
Comparatives and superlatives. Other ways of making comparisons.
Reporting verbs.
Impersonal report structures.
Participle and to-infinitve clauses.
Nouns, adjectives, verbs + prepositions.
Prepositions + -ing.
Confusing pairs.

Vocabulary/ Use of English

Personal qualities, issues and opinions, relationships, the environment.
Expressions with on.
Phrasal verbs.
Collocations: verb + nouns, adjectives + nouns.
Near synonyms.
Ways of touching.
Word formation: nouns.
Idiomatic expressions.
Expressions that give emphasis.
Intensifying expressions.
Discourse markers.
Prepositions.
Expressions that are easily confused.
Words for eating and drinking.
Feelings and reactions. Describing emotions. Talking about change. Music.
Expressing opinions about the future.
Using the correct word.
Word formation: suffixes, prefixes.
Rephrasing.
Idiomatic phrases and collocations.
Verb phrases.
Similar meanings.
Sounds. Animal idioms.
Nouns + preposition + noun phrase.