"Advanced Level English"

By now you should be able to speak almost fluently.

This level consists of C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency:

C1 - Grammar to cover includes:

✓ Prefixes and suffixes.  For example: dislike, likeable.

✓ Compound nouns.  For example: tooth + paste = toothpaste.

✓ Ellipsis and substitutions (words you can leave out or replace with something else).
     For example:  This 'one' is bigger. 'One' represents another noun so it’s a substitution.
     Sometimes you leave words out completely because the meaning is clear. 
     For example: This 'one' (thing) is bigger (than the other thing).

✓ Question tags.  For example:  You like that, don’t you?

✓ Active and State (stative) verbs (actions and conditions).
     For example: She bought (active) a motorbike and also owns (stative) a car.

✓ Future perfect continuous tense:.  For example:  I will have been working.

✓ Detailed rules on phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition or
       two that together make a new meaning.
       For example: To get on with someone, to put up with something.

C1 - Vocabulary to cover includes:

✓ General idioms. An idiom is a phrase that has a meaning quite different from the
       individual words within it. For example, students may understand all the words:
       it + is + a + pain + in + the + neck. However they won’t get the point unless
       they find out what the whole expression means. 
      I will shortly be adding a page on IDIOMS...... watch this space.

✓ Newspaper headlines. There are a number of words that are favourites for the News
       but are hardly used elsewhere, e.g:  Minister Rapped After Expenses Probe.   
       Journalists also like to be very playful with the language.

✓ Words with different connotations. Old and elderly have basically the same
       meaning. However, elderly is more polite than old when referring to people, so the
       connotation (attitude behind the word) is different.

✓ Metaphors and similes. You use metaphors when you say that one thing is another
       because they’re somehow similar. There was a storm of protest.  Storm is a word
       that describes violent weather conditions but here it means a violent outburst.

C2 - Proficiency

 It’s fairly difficult to come up with a syllabus for proficiency level as many of the questions are more like A-level English for native speakers.
Proficiency has more exercises based on inference (reading between the lines) which calls for a total understanding of the language.

Some C2 level exercises can be found here.