Unidad 01 – Art in your life

Inversion with adverbial expressions. Visual art. Other kinds of inversions: Neither do I, so did you. Idioms with art words. Adding emphasis: Cleft sentences. Word formation with the word “art”. Do/did for emotive or contrastive emphasis. On “art quality”

Unidad 02 – Notes and spare change

Ellipsis: reduced infinitives. Word formation of “pay” and idioms. Ellipsis: omission of the main verb. Money matters. Clauses: defining and non-defining clauses. Money sayings. Participle Clauses. Deadly money disorders

Unidad 03 – Caught red-handed

Reported speech and reporting verbs. Crime and Justice, Reported questions, imperatives, requests and passive. Law and power idioms. The subjunctive. Word formation: moral, power, govern. Fixed subjunctive expressions and alternatives to subjunctive. Idioms with 'word'

Unidad 04 – Well-oiled machine

‘Seem’ and ‘appear’. Progress. Linking clauses of reason and result. Quality control Linking clauses of purpose. Technology idioms. Infinitives, -ing forms and verb patterns    Collocations on "purpose", “energy”, “date”.

Unidad 05 – Breaking news!

Linking words and expressions. Miscellaneous media vocabulary. Punctuation, spelling and most common mistakes. Giving and withholding information. Nominalisation. Patterns on "discussion". British and American English grammar and usage. Slang terminology in Social Media.