Livello A2 secondo il CEFR.
PROGRAMMA

Grammar:
1. Auxiliary verbs : to Be and to Have; There + to be. Indefinite articles. Singular and plural nouns. Demonstratives. Personal pronouns.
2. Present Tenses: Present Simple and Present Progressive. Adverbs of frequency. Abilities and obligations: Can, Must, Have to.
3. Quantifiers. Comparatives and superlative forms. Interrogative forms and pronouns. Short replies, tag questions.
4. Object pronouns. The Imperative. Can and Will for requests. Prepositions of place and movement.
5. Present Perfect. Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Progressive. Relative pronouns.
6. Future tenses: Simple Future, Going to, Present Continuous for arrangements.
7. Conditionals. Modal verbs. If -clauses.
8. Il passive.

Vocabulary:
1. Nationality. Family members and relations.
2. Life events. Jobs and occupations. Military ranks. Army structure and Military careers.
3. The human body, age and psycho-physical description. Health and medical conditions.
4. Dates and time expressions. Numbers and measurements.
5. Clothes and Uniforms. Military equipment.
6. Sports and leisure time activities. Food. Likes and dislikes.
7. Places to live: town and city locations, military buildings and bases. Land features. Weather conditions.
8. Training programs and military daily tasks. Common military commands. Notices and Signs.
9. Transportation and Military vehicles.
10. Arms and weapons. Military units and organizations.

Functions:
1. Introductions/ Giving and getting personal information.
2. Daily Routines/Talking about routine and recreational tasks and activities.
3. Descriptions- comparisons/Describing things, places, positions and military bases.
4. Requests-orders and permissions/asking and giving information and instruction/ordering food and drink.
5. Reporting procedures/Describing recent and past events and life experiences.
6. Expressing opinions, ambitions and intentions/ Talking about plans.
7. Reporting back
8. Negotiating and expressing hypothesis/Giving advice.
Contents:
Grammar:
1. Auxiliary verbs : to Be and to Have; There + to be. Indefinite articles. Singular and plural nouns. Demonstratives. Personal pronouns.
2. Present Tenses: Present Simple and Present Progressive. Adverbs of frequency. Abilities and obligations: Can, Must, Have to.
3. Quantifiers. Comparatives and superlative forms. Interrogative forms and pronouns. Short replies, tag questions.
4. Object pronouns. The Imperative. Can and Will for requests. Prepositions of place and movement.
5. Present Perfect. Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Progressive. Relative pronouns.
6. Future tenses: Simple Future, Going to, Present Continuous for arrangements.
7. Conditionals. Modal verbs. If -clauses.
8. Passive forms.

Vocabulary:
1. Nationality. Family members and relations.
2. Life events. Jobs and occupations. Military ranks. Army structure and Military careers.
3. The human body, age and psycho-physical description. Health and medical conditions.
4. Dates and time expressions. Numbers and measurements.
5. Clothes and Uniforms. Military equipment.
6. Sports and leisure time activities. Food. Likes and dislikes.
7. Places to live: town and city locations, military buildings and bases. Land features. Weather conditions.
8. Training programs and military daily tasks. Common military commands. Notices and Signs.
9. Transportation and Military vehicles.
10. Arms and weapons. Military units and organizations.

Functions:
1. Introductions/ Giving and getting personal information.
2. Daily Routines/Talking about routine and recreational tasks and activities.
3. Descriptions- comparisons/Describing things, places, positions and military bases.
4. Requests-orders and permissions/asking and giving information and instruction/ordering food and drink.
5. Reporting procedures/Describing recent and past events and life experiences.
6. Expressing opinions, ambitions and intentions/ Talking about plans.
7. Reporting back
8. Negotiating and expressing hypothesis/Giving advice.


MODALITA’ DI VALUTAZIONE
Modalità d'esame:
L'esame finale consisterà in un test integrato con prove di reading e writing da svolgersi senza l'ausilio del dizionario e vertente sui contenuti del corso. Verranno valutate le abilità di lettura e scrittura in lingua secondo quanto indicato di seguito:
Abilità:
Reading skills: Alla fine del corso gli studenti dovranno essere in grado di comprendere testi di media difficoltà contenenti istruzioni, relazioni e descrizioni concernenti situazioni lavorative quotidiane, ambienti di lavoro, tattiche ed operazioni militari.
Writing skills: Alla fine del corso gli studenti dovranno essere in grado di scrivere un messaggio breve nella forma di nota, email o memo, contenente istruzioni, richieste o comunicazioni personali e/o di servizio, nonché descrivere luoghi ed attività.

Examination method:
The final exam will consist of an integrated test with reading and writing exercises to be performed without the use of the dictionary and aimed at assessing the acquisition of the course contents.
The final test will assess the following language skills:
Writing skills: At the end of the course, students will be able to write a short message in the form of note, email or memo containing instructions, requests or announcements and / or instructions and describe places and activities.
Reading skills: At the end of the course, students will be able to understand texts of average difficulty containing instructions, reports and descriptions of everyday work situations, military bases, military tactics and operations.

TESTI
Raymond Murphy, Lelio Pallini, Essential Grammar in Use, 2nd ed. CUP.
Holly Brummel, Oliver Page, Loud and Clear, 2nd ed. SLEE.
SLEE, Line of Communication. 2nd ed.
Flash on English for Armed Forces, ELI


MODALITA’ DI SVOLGIMENTO
Lezioni frontali condotte secondo una metodologia CoBaLTT (Content Based Second Language Instruction) con supporto di materiale interattivo online disponibile sulla piattaforma di Ateneo al sito:https://moodle.unitus.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=530 (accesso libero)
ed al sito della vecchia piattaforma Moodle:
http://moodle19.unitus.it/moodlel/login/index.php
Percorso Scienze Organizzative e Gestionali
Curriculum Esercito
Corso Lingua e Traduzione: Lingua inglese
http://moodle19.unitus.it/moodlel/course/view.php?id=564
Password: MilitaryEnglish

Class lessons employing Content -based instruction and online interactive teaching material available on the Moodle platform al sito https://moodle.unitus.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=530 (free access)
and at the sitehttp://moodle19.unitus.it/moodlel/course/view.php?id=564 of the old platform;
Password: MilitaryEnglish

TESTI
Raymond Murphy, Lelio Pallini, Essential Grammar in Use, 2nd ed. CUP.
Holly Brummel, Oliver Page, Loud and Clear, 2nd ed. SLEE.
SLEE, Line of Communication. 2nd ed.
Flash on English for Armed Forces, ELI

Grammar:
1. Auxiliary verbs : to Be and to Have; There + to be. Indefinite articles. Singular and plural nouns. Demonstratives. Personal pronouns.
2. Present Tenses: Present Simple and Present Progressive. Adverbs of frequency. Abilities and obligations: Can, Must, Have to.
3. Quantifiers. Comparatives and superlative forms. Interrogative forms and pronouns. Short replies, tag questions.
4. Object pronouns. The Imperative. Can and Will for requests. Prepositions of place and movement.
5. Present Perfect. Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Progressive. Relative pronouns.
6. Future tenses: Simple Future, Going to, Present Continuous for arrangements.
7. Conditionals. Modal verbs. If -clauses.
8. Passive forms.

Vocabulary:
1. Nationality. Family members and relations.
2. Life events. Jobs and occupations. Military ranks. Army structure and Military careers.
3. The human body, age and psycho-physical description. Health and medical conditions.
4. Dates and time expressions. Numbers and measurements.
5. Clothes and Uniforms. Military equipment.
6. Sports and leisure time activities. Food. Likes and dislikes.
7. Places to live: town and city locations, military buildings and bases. Land features. Weather conditions.
8. Training programs and military daily tasks. Common military commands. Notices and Signs.
9. Transportation and Military vehicles.
10. Arms and weapons. Military units and organizations.

Functions:
1. Introductions/ Giving and getting personal information.
2. Daily Routines/Talking about routine and recreational tasks and activities.
3. Descriptions- comparisons/Describing things, places, positions and military bases.
4. Requests-orders and permissions/asking and giving information and instruction/ordering food and drink.
5. Reporting procedures/Describing recent and past events and life experiences.
6. Expressing opinions, ambitions and intentions/ Talking about plans.
7. Reporting back
8. Negotiating and expressing hypothesis/Giving advice.

Raymond Murphy, Lelio Pallini, Essential Grammar in Use, 2nd ed. CUP.
Holly Brummel, Oliver Page, Loud and Clear, 2nd ed. SLEE.
SLEE, Line of Communication. 2nd ed.
Flash on English for Armed Forces, ELI

Grammar:
1. Auxiliary verbs : to Be and to Have; There + to be. Indefinite articles. Singular and plural nouns. Demonstratives. Personal pronouns.
2. Present Tenses: Present Simple and Present Progressive. Adverbs of frequency. Abilities and obligations: Can, Must, Have to.
3. Quantifiers. Comparatives and superlative forms. Interrogative forms and pronouns. Short replies, tag questions.
4. Object pronouns. The Imperative. Can and Will for requests. Prepositions of place and movement.
5. Present Perfect. Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Progressive. Relative pronouns.
6. Future tenses: Simple Future, Going to, Present Continuous for arrangements.
7. Conditionals. Modal verbs. If -clauses.
8. Passives.

Vocabulary:
1. Nationality. Family members and relations.
2. Life events. Jobs and occupations. Military ranks. Army structure and Military careers.
3. The human body, age and psycho-physical description. Health and medical conditions.
4. Dates and time expressions. Numbers and measurements.
5. Clothes and Uniforms. Military equipment.
6. Sports and leisure time activities. Food. Likes and dislikes.
7. Places to live: town and city locations, military buildings and bases. Land features. Weather conditions.
8. Training programs and military daily tasks. Common military commands. Notices and Signs.
9. Transportation and Military vehicles.
10. Arms and weapons. Military units and organizations.

Functions:
1. Introductions/ Giving and getting personal information.
2. Daily Routines/Talking about routine and recreational tasks and activities.
3. Descriptions- comparisons/Describing things, places, positions and military bases.
4. Requests-orders and permissions/asking and giving information and instruction/ordering food and drink.
5. Reporting procedures/Describing recent and past events and life experiences.
6. Expressing opinions, ambitions and intentions/ Talking about plans.
7. Reporting back
8. Negotiating and expressing hypothesis/Giving advice.

Raymond Murphy, Lelio Pallini, Essential Grammar in Use, 2nd ed. CUP.
Holly Brummel, Oliver Page, Loud and Clear, 2nd ed. SLEE.
SLEE, Line of Communication. 2nd ed.
Flash on English for Armed Forces, ELI

Contenuti:

Grammar:
1. Auxiliary verbs : to Be and to Have; There + to be. Indefinite articles. Singular and plural nouns. Demonstratives. Personal pronouns.
2. Present Tenses: Present Simple and Present Progressive. Adverbs of frequency. Abilities and obligations: Can, Must, Have to.
3. Quantifiers. Comparatives and superlative forms. Interrogative forms and pronouns. Short replies, tag questions.
4. Object pronouns. The Imperative. Can and Will for requests. Prepositions of place and and movement.
5. Present Perfect. Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Progressive. Relative pronouns.
6. Future tenses: Simple Future, Going to, Present Continuous for arrangements.
7. Conditionals. Modal verbs. If -clauses.
8. Il passive.

Vocabulary:
1. Nationality. Family members and relations.
2. Life events. Jobs and occupations. Military ranks. Army structure and Military careers.
3. The human body, age and psycho-physical description. Health and medical conditions.
4. Dates and time expressions. Numbers and measurements5. Clothes and Uniforms. Military equipment.
6.. Sports and leisure time activities. Food. Likes and dislikes.
7. Places to live: town and city locations, military buildings and bases. Land features. Weather conditions.
8. Training programs and military daily tasks. Common military commands. Notices and Signs.
9. Transportation and Military vehicles.
10. Arms and weapons. Military units and organizations.

Functions:
1. Introductions/ Giving and getting personal information.
2. Daily Routines/Talking about routine and recreational tasks and activities.
3. Descriptions- comparisons/Describing things, places, positions and military bases.
4. Requests-orders and permissions/asking and giving information and instruction/ordering food and drink.
5. Reporting procedures/Describing recent and past events and life experiences.
6. Expressing opinions, ambitions and intentions/ Talking about plans.
7. Reporting back
8. Negotiating and expressing hypothesis/Giving advice.

Raymond Murphy, Lelio Pallini, Essential Grammar in Use, 2nd ed. CUP.
Holly Brummel, Oliver Page, Loud and Clear, 2nd ed. SLEE.
SLEE, Line of Communication. 2nd ed.
Flash on English for Armed Forces, ELI

Grammar:
1. Auxiliary verbs : to Be and to Have; There + to be. Indefinite articles. Singular and plural nouns. Demonstratives. Personal pronouns.
2. Present Tenses: Present Simple and Present Progressive. Adverbs of frequency. Abilities and obligations: Can, Must, Have to.
3. Quantifiers. Comparatives and superlative forms. Interrogative forms and pronouns. Short replies, tag questions.
4. Object pronouns. The Imperative. Can and Will for requests. Prepositions of place and movement.
5. Present Perfect. Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Progressive. Relative pronouns.
6. Future tenses: Simple Future, Going to, Present Continuous for arrangements.
7. Conditionals. Modal verbs. If -clauses.
8. Il passive.

Vocabulary:
1. Nationality. Family members and relations.
2. Life events. Jobs and occupations. Military ranks. Army structure and Military careers.
3. The human body, age and psycho-physical description. Health and medical conditions.
4. Dates and time expressions. Numbers and measurements.
5. Clothes and Uniforms. Military equipment.
6. Sports and leisure time activities. Food. Likes and dislikes.
7. Places to live: town and city locations, military buildings and bases. Land features. Weather conditions.
8. Training programs and military daily tasks. Common military commands. Notices and Signs.
9. Transportation and Military vehicles.
10. Arms and weapons. Military units and organizations.

Functions:
1. Introductions/ Giving and getting personal information.
2. Daily Routines/Talking about routine and recreational tasks and activities.
3. Descriptions- comparisons/Describing things, places, positions and military bases.
4. Requests-orders and permissions/asking and giving information and instruction/ordering food and drink.
5. Reporting procedures/Describing recent and past events and life experiences.
6. Expressing opinions, ambitions and intentions/ Talking about plans.
7. Reporting back
8. Negotiating and expressing hypothesis/Giving advice.

Raymond Murphy, Lelio Pallini, Essential Grammar in Use, 2nd ed. CUP.
Holly Brummel, Oliver Page, Loud and Clear, 2nd ed. SLEE.
SLEE, Line of Communication. 2nd ed.
Flash on English for Armed Forces, ELI

Presentation of the course contents and objectives. Indications regarding the methods of administration and evaluation of the exams. Illustration of the contents and assessment objectives of an exam of the past sessions, which we will use as Midterm test on 13/05/2021.
Objectives: to provide the lexicon and elementary structures to be able to describe oneself and one's family.
Grammar: The English verbal system; the auxiliaries to be and to have; uses of the verb BE and HAVE to communicate psycho-physical states and uses in the military lexicon (eg: to be stationed, deployed, decorated, ...). Affirmative, negative, interrogative forms of the auxiliaries. The Present Simple: affirmative, interrogative-negative form. Formation rules of the third person of the verb. Frequency adverbs. Articles and the plural of nouns. Personal pronouns subject and complement; possessive pronouns and adjectives. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns. The Saxon genitive.
Lexicon: Personal Identity and Introduction. Greetings. Physical description and description of feelings and emotions. Family members. Countries and nationalities. Ranks. Hobbies, likes and dislikes.
Writing task: Describe yourself and your family, and a person you admire; describe a town; describe the barracks and the activities carried out there; note writing.

Loud & Clear Units 1-10 & 11-20, SLEE, second edition May 2001
Line of Communication, SLEE
English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, Elementary
Grammar Practice for Elementary Students, Longman
Flash on English for the Armed Forces, ELI
resources on the Moodle platform, which include: grammar practice worksheets with answer key; powerpoint presentations of some key grammar points; videos from National Geographic Learning, with subtitles; progress tests with key; and links to online teaching and learning websites.