Dan In Real Life- Teacher´s e-book

• Broadening the range of grammatical forms to convey intended meanings.
• Raising awareness of the importance of linking words and cohesive elements in the development of discourse.
• Providing linguistic resources for a more effective use of the language.
• Providing visual and verbal stimuli to bring about communicative interaction.
• Helping learners select relevant information from the video in order to perform a task.
• Raising learners’ overall listening skills.
• Working towards a more effective use of vocabulary to convey intended meanings.
• Paving the way for the development of narrative skills.
• Developing the ability to paraphrase through a transformational exercise along the lines of those used at FCE (paper 3 part 3).

• Developing paraphrasing skills.

• Oral abbreviations (FYI, aka, ASAP, TGIF, TS, DOA, ATM, KISS, BYOB, CEO, DOB, IOU, MYOB, OJ)
• Vocabulary with the suffix ‘less’ (reckless, fearless, priceless)
• Family words (fearlessly/fear/fearlessness, recklessly/recklessness, price/priceless, trustworthy/trustworthiness, honest/honesty, committed/commitment, assertive/assertiveness, enthusiasm/enthusiastic, cheerful/cheerfulness, confidence/confident, skill, skilful, talent/talented)
• Phrasal verbs (loosen up, lighten up, pass oneself off as sb, make it up to sb, catch up  with sb, put up with sb/sth, be put out, make sth up, get over sth, find sth out, come out with sth, fall for sb, run into sb)
• Animals that are used to describe women (a cow, a fox, a bitch, a chick, a viper)
• Adjectives used to describe food (scrumptious, disgusting, revolting, mouth-watering, wholesome, delicious, savoury, yummy, yuk)

• General impressions and speculation (seem look as though, must/may/might/can’t + infinitive/perfect infinitive)

• If clauses type III

• It’s been + time + since + Simple Past
• To have trouble + -ing
• Wish + would cf. wish + could
• Feel like + -ing
• Although cf. despite
• Reporting verbs (suggest, insist)
• Can’t help + -ing