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The vocabulary of a person who masters a language at an advanced level includes more than 4000 words and one of the best ways to learn new words is by reading. English literature offers a wide variety of titles that will allow you to learn English while enjoying them. In addition, there are specific grammar books that can be used to accompany an advanced English course.
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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR BOOKS TO LEARN ADVANCED ENGLISH?
LEARN ENGLISH WITH BOOKS FOR AN ADVANCED LEVEL
Surely you have already learned to use a language using books. They are the most used resource in educational institutions. Just as you learned the grammatical rules of the Spanish language, you can learn English grammar with academic texts, and just as you have read literature books in classes that have taken you to an advanced level of Spanish, you can improve your comprehension, vocabulary, and spelling by reading English books that have content complex enough to interest an advanced level student.
Speaking Advanced English as a Goal
If your goal is to speak advanced English, congratulations on setting yourself this great challenge!
Now, you will have to devote many hours to develop your different skills, for example sharpening your listening, acquiring new vocabulary, and above all practicing advanced grammar.
Let’s see below examples of grammar topics for advanced level:
Cleft Sentences (CS)
They are used to split a message using What or It to give new, more important or contradictory information.
- What clauses
They are very common sentences in English speech and can be divided into two types:
a. What clause focused on an action and follows the structure What + Subject + verb + Verb to be + Infinitive clause.
Example:
What Tom does is pretend he hasn’t heard me.
(What Tom does is pretend he hasn’t heard me.)
b. What clause focused on a complete sentence and follows the structure What happens + Verb to be + clause.
Example:
What happens is they end up having a row.
(What happens is they end up having a fight.)
- It clauses
In these sentences the information is emphasized using the structure It + Verb to be + noun + defining relative clause.
Examples:
It would probably be my sister who I’d talk to first.
(It would probably be my sister who I’d talk to first.)
It wasn’t until she broke up with her boyfriend that my new friend started to confide in me.
(It wasn’t until she broke up with her boyfriend that my new friend started to confide in me.)
Participle clauses
There are 3 types of participle clauses:
- Present participle clause : Verb + –ing
Gliding silently along in a canoe you get to see rural Asturias.
(Gliding silently along in a canoe you get to see rural Asturias.)
- Past participle clause : Past participle verb
Caught locally every day, it’s always wonderfully fresh.
(Caught locally every day, it’s always wonderfully fresh.)
- Perfect participle clause = Having + past participle.
Having lived through difficult times together, they end up getting married.
(Having lived through difficult times, they end up getting married.)
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Vocabulary for Speaking Advanced English
Below we share some vocabulary and expressions used at an advanced speaking level:
- Accomplish a goal (conseguir un objetivo.)
- Arduous (arduous, tedious)
- Cajole (convince)
- Chuffed (pleased, satisfied)
- Cuddly (adorable, tender)
- Nudge (elbow)
- Outback (rural, inland area; countryside)
- Paddy (tantrum, fit)
- Petty (insignificant)
- Sly (cunning, smart aleck)
- Snap decision (sudden decision)
- Tacky (tacky, vulgar)
- Take it or leave it (take it or leave it)
- Tramp (vagrant)
- To hiss (to say between teeth)
- Undergo (to undergo; to suffer)
