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CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY IN TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Type of Course:
Language/Final Examination
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents The present degree course in Economics and Informatics for FIRMS prescribes 6 ETC and is organized into both frontal lecturers and practice.
Thus it will be divided into 2 ETC for English Language and 4 ETC for English in special purposes.
B1 of the Common European Framework (CEFR) is the starting level required, being B1 plus /B2 the final level to gain.
Therefore, the program is based on the review of. English language functions, grammar structures as well as to the introduction of the main lexical and structural elements of the English language for Economics-
As a matter of fact, finally the students will have both a written test – based on a language structures test, a reading comprehension test, a factual text analysis and a summary/report- and an oral exam to check their fluency and accuracy in speaking English for Economics.
Extended Syllabus material is also present in TEAMS: talk in fluent English about the following topics:
A Essential strategies and procedures to analyse a case study
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
Tokyo/Karoshi: 1 in block style 2 in Indented style 3 in column version
CCTV surveillance system
Pandemic, Infodemic and Syndemic
B Programma dettagliato inerente il libro di testo sull’economia:
Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level-course book -Longman-Person.
Unit 1 Companies
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Survival of the fittest and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
A matter of choice
Will the corporation survive
Unit 2 Leadership
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Terrorising the talent and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
When to terrorise talent
The art of Delegation
We don’t need managers we manage ourselves!
Unit 3 Strategy
Comment and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts: comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The big picture
S.W.O.T. Analysis
Nike’s Goddess
Breaking into a new market
Unit 4 Pay
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Because I’m worth it and then refer orally in fluent English about he following texts:
The rewards of failure
Unit 5 Development
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Prosperity or preservation? Then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
Gas for Peru V green imperialism
Unit 6 Marketing
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Seducing the masses and then refer orally in fluent English about6 the following texts:
Money can buy you love
Saying ‘I do’ to the marketers
Unit 7 Outsourcing
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The great job migration and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
The new global shift
Unit 10 Counterfeiting
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The globalisation of deceit and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
Imitating property is theft
Unit 12 Lobbies
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Finding a voice and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
Of celebrities, charity and trade
The new networked lobbies
Unit 13 Communication
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Messaging meltdown and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
Coping with infoglut
Unit 15 Innovation
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Pushing the limits and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
Failure is glorious
Motorola and Iridium
C) Program with details on the IT COURSEBOO named:
Eric H Glendinning, John McEwan, Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP
Comprehend, analyse and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
Unit 1 Computers make the world smaller and smaller p 8-9
Unit 2 Cache memory p 16-17
Unit 3
Computer Applications - Reading n 2 on p 18-19
Data Mining p 22- 23
Unit 4 Ready for the Bazillion-Byte Drive? p 30-31
Unit 6
Operating system reading n 2 p 36
Operating Systems: Hidden Software p 37
LINUX p 42-43
Unit 8
Application Programs Reading n 4 p 54
Application Service Providers p 58-59
Unit 11
Networks –Starter n 1 and n 2
Reading n 3 p c 73
Network Communications p 78-79
D) Four slides about definitions about Information Technology
E) Some more passages to refer orally:
> Positive & Negative Impact of Technology on Society
> Technology: A Positive or Negative Influence on Society?
F) Linguistics through a video course
Another innovative feature of Global: Global English with Professor David Crystal.
English as a Global Language in
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
G) Detailed Grammar programme
Analysing the English sentence
The main parts of a sentence
To be; subject pronouns; demonstratives
To have – possession -
Possessives, reflexives, interrogatives
The Present Continuous
The Present Simple
Prepositions of Place and Time
The Imperative
The Future - four different ways to express the idea of future -
Past simple and past continuous
Present perfect and past perfect
The noun
Articles
Adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Indefinite pronouns and adjectives
Interrogative pronouns and adjectives
Conditional sentences and if clauses
The duration form
The passive voice
The subjunctive
Connectors
Direct and reported speech
Recommended Bibliography Ì Eric H Glendinning, ohn McEwan, Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP (check detailed program on TEAMS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGeQO7ROwE4 audio CD
ìì Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level- course book -Longman-Person and The Economist
(check detailed program on TEAMS)
ììS. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello. -All the units-
D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter
interview with D crystal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GMlpAdVok
David Crystal - The Effect of New Technologies on English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVqcoB798Is
David Crystal - How is the internet changing language today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XVdDSJHqY
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods The course programme will be divided into three modules as follows:
MODULE 1 – 2 ECT (European University Credit) deals with:
Language structure
Language functions
Vocabulary
MODULE 2 - 2 ECT – deals with :
Decode/comprehend realia of Economics
Practice a Factual Text Analysis
Write a summary and/or a short report
Presentation using micro language of Economics
MODULE 3 - 2 ECT – deals with :
Decode/comprehend realia of Informatics
Practice a Factual Text Analysis
Write a summary and/or a short report
Presentation using micro language of Informatics
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The evaluation is based on:
A written tests – must be definitively decided during the course - to check:
Grammar
Reading comprehension
Factual text analysis
The skill to write a summary and/or a short report
An oral exam to check:
The student ability to speak in fluent English about all the topics about Economics and Informatics dealt during the course
Ongoing evaluations for attender students only will be given during or at the end of the course
Contacts/More Information attendance is quite compulsory