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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
English Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
To be able to understand the core points of standard-language messages on work, school, and leisure topics. To be able to produce texts on familiar topics. To be able to provide explanation on personal opinions and/on individual projects. To be able to evaluate the pros and cons of the different options.
Objectives
Contents PART 1: (6 CREDITS)
Reading comprehension of the main ideas of complex texts focusing on both abstract or concrete topics. Acquisition of spontaneous and fluent interaction skills and ability to produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of topics.
PART 2: (2 CREDITS) Academic English.
The selected essays are grouped according to purposes for writing. Students are encouraged to develop their abilities to describe, summarize, analyze and evaluate the ideas in the essays. They are also helped to solve selected linguistic problems.
Extended Syllabus The course aims at developing and consolidating skills in understanding and producing texts of different complexities. Particular attention will be devoted to the structures, the connectors and the cohesion mechanisms of the speech.
Recommended Bibliography TEXTS:
- GALLAGHER, A.; GALUZZI, F.; Activating Grammar, Pearson Longman.
- HEALAN, A.; GORMLEY, K., Close-up B2, Cengage, 2015.
- CRYSTAL, D. The English Language, Penguin.
DICTIONARIES: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (New Edition with CD-ROM), Longman.
or Oxford Collocations Dictionary (New Edition with CD-ROM), O.U.P.
o PICCHI F., Grande Dizionario di Inglese (with CD-Rom), Hoepli.
AUXILIARY BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDICATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE.
Teaching Methods
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Final exam (1 exam per term).
The exam consists of a written test of two hours (reading comprehension, essay, grammar exercises aimed at verifying skills in understanding and producing complex texts, through the control of the structures, connectors and cohesion mechanisms of speech and in an oral examination to ascertain the ability to describe, summarize, analyze and evaluate the ideas in a wide range of topics.
Both tests will be based on the reference texts indicated. The two tests will be carried out on different days. The procedures for conducting the written exam will be illustrated during the course. The student who passes the written part of the examination (having obtained at least 18/30 points) has access to the speaking exam.
To take the written exam of English Language II and English Language III in the same term is allowed. The student who fails the written examination of the second year fails the written examination of the third year too.