-READING: How to to a reading comprehension |
What is critical thinking? Different levels of understanding of a text; grammar; vocabulary; structure; rhetorical figures; story and plot; themes; characterization; inference; deduction; analysis; scope; meanings and interpretation; conclusion making; etc.
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-SPEAKING: How to speak in public; how to do an oral presentation; how to debate; how to behave in a job interview
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Types of speeches; tips to fight stage fright; the use of pauses, intonation, and rhythm in speech; body language; cohesion and coherence; to convince and to persuade; etc.
Lexical contents: vocabulary expansion, with special attention to idiomatic and fixed expressions. Themes: cultural diversity; human rights; environment; plastic and scenic arts; cinema, music and literature; sports and health. |
-GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Review and consolidation of word formation and use of vocabulary, as well as important grammatical structures.
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Grammatical contents: 1. Review and consolidation of the different categories: verbs (modal verbs, multi-word verbs, etc.); nouns, pronouns, articles and determinants; adjectives and adverbs; prepositions and conjunctions. 2. Grammatical structures: passive voice; indirect style; conditional sentences; relative structures; adverbial subordinates; etc. |