C1 ADVANCED
COURSE SYLLABUS

Week 1: Units 1 & 2

  • tense review: simple & continuous
  • tense review: perfect & non-perfect
  • tense review: active & passive
  • reflexive pronouns
  • adverbs with two forms
  • adverb collocations
  • adjective order
  • phrasal verbs

Week 2: Units 3 & 4

  • verb patterns: infinitive or -ing
  • verbs that can take both infinitive and -ing
  • phrasal verbs with up & down
  • modal auxiliary verbs
  • modal verbs for speculation
  • idiomatic collocations

Week 3: Units 5 & 6

  • ways to avoid repetition
  • reduced infinitives
  • nationalities and stereotypes
  • ways of adding emphasis
  • nouns formed from phrasal verbs

Week 4: Units 7 & 8

  • real and unreal tense usage
  • mixed conditionals
  • would
  • phrasal verbs with on & off
  • relatives & participles
  • defining and non-defining relative clauses
  • homonyms, homophones, homographs

Week 5: Units 9 & 10

  • discourse markers
  • attitude adverbs
  • connectors
  • verb phrases
  • passive constructions
  • seem & appear

Week 6: Units 11 & 12

  • future forms
  • future in the past
  • metaphorical language
  • emphatic expressions with do/does/did
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