ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Academic year and teacher
If you can't find the course description that you're looking for in the above list,
please see the following instructions >>
- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- GABRIELLA CATALINI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
- SSD
- L-LIN/12
Training objectives
- Covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocab development and translation .Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) - Intermediate level B1.
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- Determiners: ¿some/any/no ¿much/many ¿a lot/a little/a few ¿less/least/fewer ¿enough, too, too much ¿other/another ¿¿Adjectives and adverbs (ex. kind/kindly) ex.(interested/interesting) ¿Still, yet, already ¿Adverbs of frequency ¿even.........only ¿¿Comparatives and superlatives: ¿regular and irregular adjectives. ¿as....as ¿Difference between Like and as, so and such, very and too ¿¿Verbs: be, have, do and make ¿be with age, height, weight, size, colour, physical conditions ¿do as an emphatic auxiliary (ex. I do love you) ¿when to use do or make (ex. do homework/make an effort) ¿have for actions (ex. have breakfast, have a rest) ¿have got used for possession or relationships, characteristics ¿have for habitual /repeated actions(ex. we have Geography every Monday) ¿have+object+verb form(ex. I must have my watch repaired)
Modal Auxiliary verbs: ¿must, can, may, might used with which degree of certainty ¿must, should and ought to for obligation ¿must and have to for obligation ¿must not, do not have to, don't need to for prohibition and unnecessary actions ¿can, could and may for ability, permission, offers, requests and instructions ¿will used for willingness, intentions, threats and promises (Future tense) ¿Will to talk about habits and typical behaviour ¿Shall in questions ¿Should have, could have and would have for unreal past situations ¿Need, had better, used to, supposed to ¿¿Tenses: ¿Use of the Present Simple ¿Present Continuous ¿Present Perfect ¿Past Simple ¿Past Perfect ¿Present Perfect Continuous ¿Past Perfect Continuous ¿Past Continuous ¿Use of " For and since" ¿¿The Future Tense: ¿using the present simple, present continuous, to be going to, will, shall ¿future tense after if and when ¿¿The Passive(with all tenses) ¿¿Structures after verbs, adjectives and nouns ¿Infinitives or ing: Verbs followed by the infinitive or by the gerund ing ¿Prepositions followed by –ing (ex. we are interested in going to Malta this summer) ¿to...ing (ex. I look forward to hearing from you) ¿verbs which take the infinitive or -ing (ex. I can't help liking her/We decided to stay at home) ¿go +ing (ex. Let's go walking) ¿need +ing (ex. My car needs washing) ¿Structures with get ¿¿Basic sentence-structures ¿Question formation ¿Negatives ¿Imperatives ¿Question tags ¿¿Conjunctions ¿Conjunctions to join sentences (ex. but, because, while and if) ¿Conjunctions: putting in order events (ex. before/after/firstly) ¿How to use: so that, as long as, provided, while, until, as if, though, although, in spite of, because of) ¿Both .......and; neither......nor ¿¿Reported Speech ¿Word Change in reported speech (ex. here becomes there/this becomes that) ¿Reported speech: back-shifting of all tenses, with questions, infinitives ¿Difference between say and tell ¿¿Conditional Tense ¿Zero conditional (ex. Do not drive if you feel dizzy) ¿First conditional (ex. I will pick you up if I have time) ¿Second conditional (ex. I would pick you up if I had time) ¿Third conditional (ex. I would have picked you up if I had had time) ¿Structures with if, when, unless, in case ¿Use of - If I were you ¿Use of -I wish, if only ¿¿Relative Clauses ¿who, which, that, whom, whose
Phrasal Verbs
Phonetics
Writing
¿ Writing informal versus formal letters
¿ E-mails, correspondence
Creative and descriptive
Listening
Conversation Didactic methods
- Lessons twice a week covering the following skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking and vocab development
Learning assessment procedures
- Exam periods: June, July, September 2016, January 2017.
Written exam without the use of a dictionary. A mock exam will be available one month before the final exam. booking a place up for an exam: enroll via studiare.unife.it using your given password.
Exam Structure (1 hour 15 minutes):
Matching five descriptions to short texts – Reading comprehension with 10 true/false statements - Cloze test with ten spaces and four multiple-choice options for each space - Guided writing task (90 words) -
Listening (40 minutes) Reference texts
- Course Book for students whether attending or not:
1) English file digital Intermediate Plus B1/B2 ISBN 9780194501156
2) Let's practice English Grammar V. Ferroni V. Leonardi Edizioni Volta la carta - Via Voltapaletto 25, Ferrara
