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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Type of Course:
Language/Final Examination
Disciplinary Sector:
English Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites
A2- B1 level competences (following the European language framework)
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Objectives
Contents Contents
In order to make the teaching of the English language a cross curricular discipline in the degree course curriculum, following an interdisciplinary approach, the following issues will be taken into consideration, extracted from the text pointed out in the section "References". In particular:
Caring for families and children (module 3, pp. 113-138)
- Being parents
- Family forms
- Having a baby: preconception health and genetic counselling
- Maternal bond
- Little kids
- Playing means learning
- Toys as learning objects
Grammar revision and practice: main verb tenses
Adolescence:an age of transition (module 4, pp. 152-174)
- An overview of adolescence
- looking for an identity
- gender identity and sexual orientation
- parental pressure
- Peer pressure
- toxic friends:when friendship is no longer healthy
- The impact of social network
- smoking, alcohol and drugs
Grammar revision and practice:articles, indefinites, comparative forms
Social services for adults (module 5, pp.190-216)
- Unemployment in Italy
- Unemployment benefits
- Poverty and food aid
- Senior Volunteers
- The benefits of volunteer work for the elderly
- Examples of volunteering activties for the elderly
- Social care for the elderly
- Residential homes and sheltered housing
Grammar revision and pracrtice: :compound nouns
Extended Syllabus FULL PROGRAMME
Caring for families and children (module 3, pp. 113-138)
- Being parents
- Family forms
- Having a baby: preconception health and genetic counselling
- Maternal bond
- Little kids
- Playing means learning
- Toys as learning objects
Grammar revision and practice: main verb tenses
Adolescence:an age of transition (module 4, pp. 152-174)
- An overview of adolescence
- looking for an identity
- gender identity and sexual orientation
- parental pressure
- Peer pressure
- toxic friends:when friendship is no longer healthy
- The impact of social network
- smoking, alcohol and drugs
Grammar revision and practice:articles, indefinites, comparative forms
Social services for adults (module 5, pp.190-216)
- Unemployment in Italy
- Unemployment benefits
- Poverty and food aid
- Senior Volunteers
- The benefits of volunteer work for the elderly
- Examples of volunteering activties for the elderly
- Social care for the elderly
- Residential homes and sheltered housing
Grammar revision and pracrtice: :compound nouns
Recommended Bibliography REFERENCES
-.Ardu, R.beolè, R.Palmer, A Caring Society, Edisco, Torino, 2015.
Marengo M., Brush up your English, Agorà Edizioni scolastiche, Voll. 1 e 2, Torino, 2011
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods TEACHING METHODS
Interactive lessons based on inductive and deductive approaches and strategies. Cooperative learning, learning by discovery, learningby doing.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
ASSESSMENT METHODS The follow-up assessment, in compliance with the learning aims aboce mentioned will be carried out by a written structured test, in order to assess reading comprehension and structural skills, as far as level B1 concerns.
Contacts/More Information COURSE ORGANIZATION
18 class hours and interactive lessons including exercises; 51 hours of individual study