Advanced (C1)
Intensive

Module 1: Big Decisions

• Talking about the future and expressing plans or intentions.

• Complaining and expressing worries about personal or work matters.

• Using present tenses (review) and future tenses (review).

• Vocabulary: managing change, life plans, and wordwise expressions with up.

Module 2: A Hard Life

• Talking about past experiences and challenges.

• Describing habits and routines from the past.

• Using narrative tenses (review) and would / used to.

• Vocabulary: descriptive verbs and time expressions.

Module 3: What’s in a Name?

• Giving advice and making recommendations.

• Expressing obligation, warning, and prohibition.

• Using (don’t) have to / ought to / should(n’t) / must / had better (not) and can(’t) / must(n’t).

• Vocabulary: names and identity, making and selling, and wordwise expressions with name.

Module 4: What Would You Do?

• Talking about hypothetical or imaginary situations.

• Expressing wishes and apologising.

• Using first and second conditionals (review), time conjunctions, I wish / if only, and third conditional (review).

• Vocabulary: expressing emotions, decision-making, and wordwise phrases with now.

Module 5: Storytelling

• Telling and developing stories and anecdotes.

• Using relative pronouns and defining / non-defining relative clauses.

• Vocabulary: story structure, elements of a story, and types of narrative.

Module 6: That’s Impossible

• Explaining how things are done and talking about sequences.

• Using present and past passive (review), have something done, and future and present perfect passive (review).

• Vocabulary: adjectives for intensity, expressions with make and do, and descriptive modifiers.

Module 7: Breaking Away

• Talking about permission, habits, and invitations.

• Developing flexibility in spoken communication.

• Using make / let / be allowed to, be / get used to.

• Vocabulary: phrasal verbs (1), personality traits, and wordwise phrases with all.

Module 8: Crime and Punishment

• Reporting what someone said, asked, or requested.

• Discussing reactions and opinions about law and justice.

• Using reported speech (review), and reported questions, requests, and imperatives.

• Vocabulary: crime, reporting verbs, and justice-related expressions.

Module 9: It’s a Mystery!

• Making deductions and forming conclusions.

• Using modals of deduction (present) (must, might, can’t, should, shouldn’t have) and modals of deduction (past).

• Vocabulary: mysteries, problem-solving, and expressions with go.

Module 10: Money

• Talking about future financial decisions and attitudes towards money.

• Sympathising and discussing hypothetical outcomes.

• Using future continuous and future perfect tenses.

• Vocabulary: money and value, jobs and work, and wordwise phrases with by.

Module 11: Emergency!

• Expressing purpose and cause using infinitive / gerund structures.

• Emphasising through expressions such as in order to, so as to, so that, and such / so.

• Vocabulary: danger and safety, and adjectives with negative prefixes.

Module 12: Life’s Firsts

• Talking about fears, regrets, and first experiences.

• Expressing emotions and sympathy through storytelling.

• Using phrasal verbs (2), I wish / if only + past perfect, and modal verbs for past regrets.

• Vocabulary: phrasal verbs, nervousness and fear, and life experiences.