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. In details:
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:
In details:
Reading skills - pre-reading activities; skimming, scanning, intensive and extensive reading.
Efficient reading strategies
Essential definition for what a text is - part I (understanding different types of text)
First step- what a text is - part II (Identifying texts and purposes)
Factual text Analysis
Types of text –Identifying purpose and text convention
Jacobson theory of Communication (sender, message, receive and code)
Graphs
Linkers or Connectors
Writing a summary
Further texts present in scrambled order in the file Teams
Tokyo: 1 in block style 2 in Indented style 3 in column version (layout of a text)
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.