Teacher
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ROMAGNUOLO Anna
(syllabus)
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, Law, Economics and Management developed through the reading and discussion of the texts available in the 4 units: Business Entities, Management, Marketing, Accounting.
(reference books)
The teaching material consists in two handouts: 1) Grammar - Study Pack 1 2) Reading and Vocabulary Exercises - Study Pack 2. Both handouts are also available online and comply with copyright laws. 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, texts have been extracted and/or adapted from the following manuals:
K. Richardson, M. Kavanagh, J. Sydes at al. The Business Pre-intermediate, Macmillan; J. Allison, P. Emmerson, The Busines 2.0 Intermediate Student’s Book, Macmillan; T. Trappe, G. Tullis, Intelligent Business Coursebook, Longman.
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