FCE/Upper-Intermediate Courses
Courses are available throughout the year and students may start on any Monday during term time for a minimum of two weeks. The FCE Exam is offered four times per year and Bury Language School is an authorised University of Cambridge Examination Centre. We will use our 14 years experience to help you succeed.
The syllabus will include:
Reading Skills
Understanding semi-authentic texts of various kinds (informative and general interest) and deducing meaning through gist, detail and text structure.
Writing Skills
Learning the skills of writing letters (formal and informal), articles, reports and compositions for a given purpose and target readers covering a range of topics.
Listening Skills
Learning the skills of listening for detail and gist in order to understand meaning. You will practise by listening to short extracts and longer monologues. The syllabus includes:
Chats, conversations, discussions, interviews, quizzes, radio plays, transactions, talks, reports, stories, lectures, speeches, public announcements etc.
Speaking Skills
Interacting in conversational English in a variety of contexts; demonstrating this through appropriate control of grammar and vocabulary; discourse management, pronunciation and interactive communication. The syllabus includes:
Introductions, descriptions, comparisons, agreeing, disagreeing, discussing, problem-solving and questioning.
Grammar Skills
- present tense review: simple and continuous
- past simple, continuos and perfect
- future tenses: will, going to and present continuous
- present perfect: simple and continuous (for/since)
- modal verbs: can, could, needn't etc.
- relative clauses: relative and non-relative (which, that etc.)
- conditionals, zero, 1st, 2nd and 3rd
- 'make' versus 'do'
- phrasal verbs
- adjective phrases
- idioms
- linking words: to improve sentence building
- passive voice
- prepositional phrases
- gerunds and infinitives
- word formation: verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs
