C1 - Grammar
to cover:
✓ Prefixes
and suffixes. For example: dislike,
likeable, unlikeable.
✓ 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 particle,
that together make a new
meaning. For example: To get on with
someone, to put up with
something.
C1 - Vocabulary 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 but 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
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.
