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DIPLOMA SUPERIOR DE CAPACITACIN

GRAMMAR
A VERBS
1. Revision and intensive practice of all tenses, and patterns included
in 1st to 5th year.
2. Revision of all modal verbs.

Order, comparison, patterns

C ARTICLES
Use and omission of definite and indefinite articles
Special rules Exceptions Special Cases Definite and Indefinite
meaning.

D CLAUSES:
Conditional Clauses
Relative Clauses
Clauses of Purpose, Time, Reason, Contrast, Place, etc.
Connectors: subordinators-coordinators
The Participle vs. Relative Clause

E COLLOCATIONS

F PASSIVE VOICE
General use in everyday English

G PREPOSITIONS
Specially after certain verb patterns or modifying certain Nouns

H PHRASAL VERBS
Revision of most frequently used phrasal verbs.
Use phrasal verbs as often as possible esp. in colloquial, informal
language and in situations connected with certain professions.
Also in every written exercise where one will apply instead of the
synonym.

I REPORTED SPEECH
Pay special attention to introductory clauses

J WORD BUILDING
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B ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

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Prefixes and Suffixes
Synonyms and Antonyms
Derivatives

FUNCTIONS
Asking and giving advice
Complaining
Criticising
Describing people and places
Expressing ability, possibility, permission, obligation
Expressing beliefs and opinions/ doubts and uncertainties
Expressing dissatisfaction
Expressing hopes and ambition for the future
Expressing likes and dislikes
Expressing possibility / wishes /obligation
Expressing worries and hopes
Giving opinion indirectly
Making polite requests, suggestions, enquiries
Making rhetorical questions
Relating, explaining, remembering past events
Reporting conversations / lectures, etc.
Showing annoyance
Speculating Gossiping Contradicting
Talking about differences comparing speculating contradicting
Talking about sensations
Warning and Threatening

WRITING
VERY IMPORTANT: OFF SUBJECT COMPOSITIONS WILL NOT BE
CORRECTED.
Letters (formal and informal) - Essays Descriptions (real and
imaginary). Students should be able to write about 200 words being
accurate in expression, vocabulary and syntax.
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A job application
Description of people / places /situations
Formal / Informal / Personal letters
Requesting information
Summaries
Writing a narrative piece
Writing and Answering a questionnaire
Writing reports
Writing /Answering advertisements

READING
READING ACTIVITIES
Students are supposed to be able to read and understand texts, make
exercises and write short summaries of passages suitable for the level.
Exercises: Reading-comprehension exercises: multiple choice / true-false
/answering questions/summarizing.
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EXTENSIVE READING
With the purpose of having elements to carry on with oral exams as well as
enriching vocabulary and ideas, students MUST read the following items of
their own personal choice and according to individual/group interests.

LISTENING
Try to use real life material: there are many possibilities such as interviews,
conversations, songs, films, etc.
Choose dialogues / songs / texts according to the level and interests of
students.
Exercises: Multiple choice / True or False / Fill in the gaps

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
There are many text books in the market. Longman, OUP, CUP, have been
publishing interesting and useful material all these years among which the
teachers are supposed to choose those which they find best adapted to the
needs of their groups considering average age of the students, interests and
time available.

LEVEL: Upper-Intermediate to Advanced (Pre-First Certificate)

SHORT STORIES
The Penguin Book of Short Stories (Penguin)
English Short Stories of Today (O.U.P.)
Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer (Penguin)

NOVELS
Recommended authors:
Anita Brookner, Jane Austen, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Charles
Dickens, Scott Fitzgerald, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy,
Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, William Golding, D.H.Lawrence, Doris
Lessing, David Lodge, W.Somerset Maugham, etc.

PLAYS
J.B.Priestley

T.S.Eliot
G.B. Shaw

: Time and the Conways

An inspector calls
Family reunion
: Murder in the Cathedral
: Pygmalion
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ONE SHORT STORY

ONE PLAY
ONE NOVEL

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Candida
Oscar Wilde : Lady Windermeres Fan
The importance of being Earnest
This list of possibilities is only a suggestion and the choice of the reading
material should be discussed between teachers and students.

ORAL COMMUNICATION :
To obtain the Certificate students must be able to:
- Comment on the extra-reading materials (characters, plot and own ideas
about the book in question).
- discuss the topics listed in the students book contents.
- express their ideas and sentiments correctly
- play situations with their partners using a variety of the most relevant
language functions.

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SHORT STORIES AND PLAYS must be read in their original versions. For
NOVELS, you could choose either original editions or simplified editions levels
5 or 6 (OUP).