English C1

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CONTENTS

Here you will find a general overview of what you are going to learn.

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

  • understand a wide range of demanding, longer clauses, and recognize implicit meaning (oral and written).
  • express your ideas fluently and spontaneously.
  • use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
  • produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

 

GRAMMAR

  • Nouns, pronouns and noun groups. Revision, extension and deepening from B2 (compound forms, derivation, preffixes, suffixes…).
  • Adjectives and determiners. Revision and extension from B2 (e.g. adjectives in -ing, three or more adjectives together, -able, -al, -en…)
  • Adverbs. Revision and extension from B2 (e.g. probability, a bunch, a load, a bar…)
  • Verbs and verbal tenses. Revision and extension of all verbal tenses till B2.
    • Mixed conditionals in the past
    • Narrative tenses
    • Passives. All types and tenses
    • Phrasal verbs, extended
  • Prepositions. All types.
  • Coordinate and subordinate clauses. All types
    • Inversions.
    • Collocations.

VOCABULARY

Revision, extension and deepening of all the topics in B2.

  • Describing people in detail (including yourself)
  • House and environment in detail (furniture, household chores, parts of the city…)
  • Free time and leisure: Describing activities in detail.
  • Travel. Means of transportation: Countries, different ways of travelling, necessary things for moving…
  • Human and social relationships described in detail: going out with, getting on well/bad, acquaintance, owner, argue, cohabitation…
  • Health and physical care: Parts of the body, doctor’s appointment, describing diseases
  • Education: objects, environment and actions (e.g. stapler, emergency exit, sign up…)
  • Shopping. General and specific environments (shop/mall…), prices, sizes, actions (offer, reduce…) objects (label, purse…)
  • Food and drink. Tools (frying pan, tablecloth…), actions (boil, chop…), ingredients.
  • Goods and services. exchange money, open up a bank account, public services…
  • The weather, environment and nature.
  • Science and technology. Computing, image, social networks…
  • Sayings and collocations.

 

* Not all the topics are listed here (that would be endless), but it will give you an approximate Idea of the level. But in case you need more information about official contents/exams, you can find them here: Link to COE levels, Link to COE exams.

SCHEDULE

You can choose between:

  • English B2 on  Mondays and Wednesdays at 08:00 or 18:00 Berlin (16:00 or 02:00 Sydney), and
  • English B2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:00 Berlin (19:00 Sydney).

Write us an email to: translatemate.eu@gmail.com and tell us which course fits you more. We will give you all the information about availability and about how to join a course. More info about how to sign up or hire a service here.

 

(Please be aware of the change to daylight saving time (DST) on the 7th October in Australia)

 

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
06:00 – 06:45
07:00 – 07:45
08:00 – 08:45 Berlin

16:00-16:45 Sydney

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09:00 – 09:45
10:00 – 10:45
11:00 – 11:45Berlin

19:00-19:45 Sydney

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16:00 -16:45
17:00 – 17:45
18:00 – 18:45  Berlin

02:00-02:45 Sydney

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PRICES

COURSES and LESSONS:

  • Levels C1 and C2. Proficiency. (From 5th year school):
    • Group lesson (maximum 4 persons): 6,50 €/lesson (10,18 AUD).
    • Semi-private (2 persons): 8 €/lesson (12,53AUD).
    • Private lesson (only one person): 14 €/lesson (21,92 AUD).

 

TEXT/HOMEWORK CORRECTION:

  • Levels C1 and C2: 0,06 € per word (0,094AUD/word).