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ROMAGNUOLO Anna
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Contents Grammar: From basic grammar to b1/B1+ grammar – Articles, auxiliary verbs (To be and to have), modal verbs (Can/Could, May/Might, Shall/Should), Present tenses (Simple and Progressive), Past tenses (Past Simple, Present Perfect Simple and Continuous; Past Perfect Simple e Continuous), Future tenses (Shall/Will, Present Continuous and To be going to), Conditional tenses (Present and Past), if-clauses (1°, 2°, 3° degree and mixed), Passive form and impersonal constructions, pronouns (subject, object, demonstrative, definite, relative), adjectives (possessive, definite, comparative, superlative, quantifiers). Notions of fonetics and word formation. Microlanguage: specialized vocabulary and terminology related to the professional fields of Politics and Political Systems, Law and Human Rights protection, International Political Economy and International Relations developed through the reading and discussion of the texts available in the Study Pack 2 and complemented by online activities available on the Moodle site of the course: https://moodle.unitus.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=812
(reference books)
Teaching Material: The teaching material consists of two handouts: 1) Grammar - Study Pack 1 2) Reading and Vocabulary Exercises - Study Pack 2, Both handouts are available at the CopyClub copy shop in Via del Meone in Viterbo. In particular, the material of the second handout is complemented by further interactive exercises available online on the Moodle platform (https://moodle.unitus.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=812), necessary to take the exam. Grammar exercises have been mainly derived from Grammar Textbooks such as Grammarway 1 and 2, Express Publishing, and Headway Pre-intermediate / Intermediate, OUP. For the handouts with the specialist readings of English for International Relations, texts have been extracted and/or adapted from the following volumes and magazines:
Zambardi Mall, G. A; Chapman De Stefanis R, English for Political Science, Zanichelli 1983. Mackenzie, I. English for Business Studies, CUP, 2010. Rouke, J. T. International Politics on the World Stage, 7th Ed., Duskin/ McGrow-Hill, Printed in USA, 1999. D. Balaam & M.Veseth, Introduction to International Political Economy, Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, N.J., 1996; G. Crane & A. Amawi, The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy, O.U.P., 1991; Frieden, J.A.; Lake, D. A. International Political Economy, 2000. Driscoll, D. 1996. The IMF and the World Bank. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/exrp/differ/differ.htm Ian Brownlie, Basic Documents on Human Rights, 3rd Ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998; T. Burgental, International Human Rights, St. Paul, Minn., West Publishing Co, 1995; F. Newman, D, Weissbrodt, International Human Rights: Law, Policy and Process, 1996.
The American Journal of International Law The Guardian, The Economist Foreign Policy
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