Teacher
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CRABA Francesca
(syllabus)
The course provides a general grammatical review in order to consolidate the linguistic and structural bases of the English language with guided exercises aimed at achieving a level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). For the grammatical revision, an inductive method and a didactic approach based on the so-called "grammar in context" will be used. Students will be engaged in individual and group activities with the aim of better the grammatical knowledges, using the context. In the second part of the course, some of the lessons will also be structured in order to make the students learn and develop the linguistic and terminological skills related to technical English. In this case, the activities will be based on the comprehension, interpretation and discussion of a selected variety of texts taken from magazines and web sites. By the end of the course, students should be able to demonstrate at least B1-level language proficiency and be able to understand and comment simple texts related to their field of study. GRAMMAR: Personal Pronouns (subjects and objects) Possessive adjectives and pronouns Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns Present simple and continuous Past Simple (regular and irregular verbs) Present and Past Perfect (simple and continuous) Duration form (since and for) Modal verbs Conditional (present and past) Future forms (will, simple present, to be going to, present continuous) Zero, first, second and third conditional Relative clauses (defining and no-defining) Quantifiers (some any no and their compounds; much, many, lots of and a lot of, a little, a few) Countble and uncountable nouns Question tags
ANALYSIS OF TECHNICL TEXTS Reading, translation and analysis of key concepts in technical texts
(reference books)
Testi suggeriti:
1) Murphy, R. & Pallino, L., “Essential Grammar in Use”, Cambridge University Press, III edition, ISBN 9780521534888. 2) Redston, C. & Cunningham, G., "Face2Face Pre-intermediate Student's Book [B1]" (con DVD-ROM), Cambridge University Press, II edition, ISBN 9781107422070. 3) Gebhardt, F., "English for Cultural Heritage", Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2003, ISBN 9788875430054. 4) O'Dell, F., "PET Practice Tests Extra" (con CD-ROM), CIDEB, 2006, ISBN 9788853006448.
Ulteriore materiale di studio (testi, letture, siti web, ecc.) verrà indicato durante il corso e disponibile presso la piattaforma moodle.
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