Contents:
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, Iterative Past), 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, Law, Economics and Management developed through the reading and discussion of the texts available in the 4 units: Economy and International Political Economy; The Actors of the World Stage; Companies; Rights and Duties.

The teaching material consists of two handouts:
1) Grammar - Study Pack 1
2) Reading and Vocabulary Exercises - Study Pack 2,
Both handouts are available in paper format at the Nonsolocopie copy shop in Via del Paradiso in Viterbo; both have also been uploaded on the Moodle site https://moodle.unitus.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=1228. In particular, the first handout (Study Pack 1- Grammar) is available in the Grammar section and is complemented by further interactive exercises available online to expand vocabulary acquisition and reading skills; the second Study pack (Study Pack 2- Readings) is available with its 4 units in the section Readings – Dispensa letture 2019-20.
Grammar exercises have been mainly derived from the following Grammar Textbooks: Grammarway 1 and 2, Express Publishing, and Headway Pre-intermediate / Intermediate, OUP.
For the handouts with the specialist readings of English for International Relations and Economics, texts have been extracted and/or adapted from specialized sites (of Think Tanks, Research Groups, and Journals) and 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.
Leo Jones & Richard Alexander, New International Business English, C.U.P., 2000;
Laura M. Basta , Patrizia Canepa, Carmela Giordano, Surfing the Business World. An English Journey through Company Management, Hoepli 2001;
Nikolas Barrall, Christine Johnson et al., Intelligent Business Intermediate, Longman 2011.
J. Fitzgerald, Management, Getting on in Business, Back Cat;Boyle, C.; Chersan, I. English for Law Enforcement, Macmillan, 2012.
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