1. FCE COURCE 2012-

2. SECOND PART: SATURDAY COURSES FIRST PART: 10th JANUARY- 19th JANUARY SCHEDULE: THIRD PART: JUNE COURSES

3. . SEQUENCE of the COURSE 1st Step: PET – (Saturday Courses) 2nd Step: FCE – (Saturday Courses) 3rd Step: TOEFL IBT (June)

4. THE AIM OF THE COURSE To enrich vocabulary knowledge and help the learners to improve daily usage of the language. To learn some phrases, structures, idioms, words,etc. that will be useful for classroom language and daily conversations outside the classroom. To give a sample lesson and have the chance to apply different tecniques in these lessons

5. READY FOR FCE First Published: 2008 Total Units: 15

6. THE GRADING SYSTEM WEEKLY QUIZ: 30% ACHIEVEMENT: 20% PORTFOLIO: 10% PARTICIPATION: 10% FINAL: 30%

7. COURSE BOOK and ITS AUTHOR My teaching career began in 1984 in Selby, North Yorkshire, where I taught French and German in a comprehensive school for five years. At the end of the eighties I moved to Madrid and a career in ELT. Most of my time there has been spent working with International House, as teacher, teacher-trainer and at one point Cambridge Examinations Co-ordinator. In the mid 1990s I spent 18 months in Vilnius, Lithuania, where I held the post of Director of Studies at Soros International House. In 1996 I came back to International House Madrid to teach, and started writing for Macmillan three years later. With the invaluable support and understanding of my wife, Azucena, and daughters Lara and Elisa, I have written Ready for FCE (2001), Ready for CAE(2004) and Straightforward Advanced (2008), and co-written Direct to FCE(2011). I also contributed to the Spanish bachillerato course Upgrade (2010).

8. READY FOR FCE First Published: 2008 Total Units: 15

9. AIM of the BOOK READY FOR FCE FCE contains a wide range of activities aims at improving students’ English and develop the language and skills which students will need to pass the FCE examination.FCE contains a wide range of activities aims at improving students’ English and develop the language and skills which students will need to pass the FCE examination.

10. CONTENTS of the BOOK Vocabulary Each topic vocabulary is reproduced in the Wordlist at the end of the book. The Wordlist is grouped according to the unit: Topic vocabulary: Clothes, Music, Sports, Films, Phrasal Verbs: page 68 Expressions and phrasal verbs: get (Page6), take (page 47), have (page 72), come, put, give, make and do.

11. Use of English Word Formation: Affiex: -er, -ist, -eer, -or, -ant, (Page: 22) Reading Writing Listening Each unit has either one or two listening activities. Recording contain a variety of different accents. “What to expect” and “How to go about it” boxes, particularly in the earlier stages of the course, give information on listening in the FCE exam. (page 8, page 15, page 21, page28.......) Speaking

12. At the end of every unit there is a two-page Review section. BOXES in the BOOK What to expect in the exam. (The Purple Boxes) Useful information on what you should be prepared to see, hear or do in a particular task in the examination. How to go about it. (The Orange Boxes) –How to deal with different tast types and specific questions. (The Pink Boxes) Don’t forget! (The Pink Boxes) Reminder of important points ot bear en minde when answering

13. AT the END of the BOOK GRAMMAR: Detailed explanations of the grammar areas seen in the units in the Grammar reference : (Pages: 206-217) LISTENING SCRIPTS: (Pages: 218-235) SPEAKING: Ready for Speaking: (Pages: 196- 199) WORDLIST: A topic based Wordlist. (Pages: 202-205)

14. READY for FCE - WORKBOOK the Workbook (WB) has a Phrasal Verb List p122, Lexical Phrase List p124 and an Irregular Verb List p126.

15. HAVE A NICE LESSON! HAVE A NICE LESSON!