The course aims to provide participants with the basic knowledge necessary for the analysis of a realia in Business English
The whole English language structures and functions will be reviewed. Therefore all the 38 units of the grammar course book - S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello,- will be explained and practiced.
1 Analysing the English sentence
2 The main parts of a sentence
3 To be; subject pronouns; demonstratives
4 To have – possession -
5 Possessives, reflexives, interrogatives
6 The Present Continuous
7 The Present Simple
8 Prepositions of Place and Time
9 The Imperative
10 The Future - four different ways to express the idea of future -
11 Past simple and past continuous
12 Present perfect and past perfect
14 The noun
15 Articles
16 Adjectives
18 Comparatives and superlatives
19 Indefinite pronouns and adjectives
21 Interrogative pronouns and adjectives
24 Modal Verbs (potere)
25 Modal verbs (dovere)
28 Conditional sentences and if clauses
29 The duration form
30 The passive voice
34 The subjunctive
37 Connectors
38 Direct and reported speech
In order to code a text the learner have to decode many of them, so the course will give the students all the necessary tools to do that, such as how to have a factual text analysis on report with economic topics
To satisfy that aim the students are given the following materials:
As regards English for special purposes, students are required to learn business English through specific and authentic readings of the subject with activities on prefixes and suffixes, phrasal verbs, compound nouns, acronyms, as well as through grammar, spelling and pronunciation differences between British English and American English.
Particular attention will be given to the use of the passive form, the abolition of the relative clause in favour of the sentence construction on the left of the key word, typical of technical and scientific English.
Thus the source of the economic texts is the Economist. The same passages, with proper activities are introduced through the following course book :
Eric H Glendinning, ohn McEwan, Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP da pag 1 a pag 178
Topics on English as a global/common language will also be dealt at the course through the essay of Professor Crystal :in
file 4 D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter
Furthermore, the possible deterioration of British English in favour of American English will be taught through the following study:
D’Angelo, Deterioration of British English - Carocci ed
Linguistics through a video course
Another innovative feature of Globalization: Global English with Professor David Crystal. English as a Global Language
Global English with David Crystal – YouTube
Varieties of English in
David Crystal - World Englishes – YouTube
What will be the future of English as a global language in:
David Crystal - Will English Always Be the Global ... – YouTub
