C1 Syllabus
The C1 level is divided into two sequential classes:
C1.1 – C1.2
Upon completion of Level C1 students can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. Can express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
Comprehension: Listening and Reading
Students can generally do the following
- Understand everybody they talk to, though they may need to confirm some details, especially if the accent is unfamiliar.
- Follow extended speech on abstract and complex topics of academic or vocational relevance, lectures, discussions, and debates both within and outside their field.
- Can follow extended discussion even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signaled explicitly.
- Understand complex technical information, such as instructions for operating equipment and specifications for products and services they know about.
- Comprehend in detail a wide range of lengthy, complex texts likely to be encountered in social, professional, or academic life, texts where stated opinions and implied points of view are discussed, though they may want time to reread them.
- Scan relatively quickly through books and articles within their field of interest and assess their relevance to their needs.
- Understand lengthy, complex manuals, instructions, regulations, and contracts in their field.
- Read extensively, for example enjoying novels without consulting a dictionary unless they want to note precise meaning, usage, or pronunciation.
Production: Speaking and Writing
Students can do the following:
- Express themselves fluently, adopting a level of formality appropriate to the circumstances and their relationship to the person they are talking to.
- Use language flexibly and effectively for social purposes, including emotional, allusive, and joking usage.
- Keep up with animated discussions on abstract and complex topics with several speakers and can participate effectively even when people start talking simultaneously.
- Understand and exchange complex, detailed information on topics with which they are not personally familiar, pinpointing key areas where further explanation or clarification is needed.
- Use the telephone for a variety of purposes, including solving problems and misunderstandings though they may need to ask for clarification if the accent is unfamiliar.
- Give clear, well-structured descriptions or presentations on complex subjects and develop an argument systematically in well-structured speech, highlighting significant points, and concluding appropriately.
- Summarize orally long, demanding texts, putting together information from different sources and relate it in a coherent summary, in an appropriate style with good grammatical control.
- Know that because they have a good command of a broad vocabulary, they do not have to restrict what they want to say at all, can always find alternatives to express what they mean.
Main C1 grammar points:
The coordination of tenses in the subjunctive mood-part two
Indirect speech – part two
Review and deepening of grammar starting from complex authentic material
Idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms – part one
