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C1 Bitesize Course
Bite-sized C1 exam preparation. Focused practice for the Cambridge C1 exam across writing, reading, listening, speaking and use of English, with exam-style tasks and tips to support your success.
What you'll cover
· 30 lessons1Module 1: Precision & expression
- The perfect aspect in depth
- Participle & reduced relative clauses
- Emphasis with comparatives
- Collocations & precise word choice
- Exam skills: register & interview
2Module 2: Narrative & reporting
- Reporting verbs & patterns
- Impersonal passive reporting
- The causative
- Advanced narrative review
- Exam skills: report & proposal
3Module 3: Speculation & emphasis
- Modals of speculation (past)
- Inversion for emphasis
- Hedging & probability
- Future in the past
- Exam skills: discursive essay
4Module 4: Argument & abstraction
- Nominalisation
- Cause, effect & linking
- Advanced conditionals review
- Advanced passive
- Exam skills: for & against
5Module 5: Nuance & persuasion
- Cleft sentences
- Gerund & infinitive nuance
- Diplomatic & tactful language
- Idioms & advanced collocation
- Exam skills: review & article
6Module 6: Mastery
- Inversion in conditionals
- Mixed conditionals mastery
- Regret, wishes & it's high time
- Fronting & emphasis
- Mock exam: speaking & essay