ENGLISH (DIRI) - I ANNO
INGLESE (DIRI) - I ANNO
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2021/2022 |
Language Assistant | Office hours for students | |
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Francesca Ida Carducci | Thursdays from 9.00 alle 10.00 Password 740958 Link di partecipazione https://uniurb-it.zoom.us/j/82715751779?pwd=Tk4rSFA2WW56UEZoaGduY0hJTjRBUT09 |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
C1+ - advanced C1
Students will be able to:
- understand a wide range of demanding, longer clauses, and recognize implicit meaning.
- express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
- use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
- produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
perfecting their C1 level of English and preparing for the successive C2 level course
Program
1st Semester:
- Intro. to the course - description of exam- general message to all students
- Current events: various topics of interest (accompanied by exercises)
- Repairing run-on sentences (comma splice)
- Review of common errors (examples of past students' work)
- Rules of capitalization in titles
- Short stories: summary writing guidelines/strategies/examples
- Parallelism in sentence structure
- The scientific research article abstract- functional moves (breaking down the RA into f.moves_ Swales and Feak _ Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts - U. of Michigan Press
- Creation of our own corpus of abstracts in the fields of Education/ Translation/ Child Psychology/ etc.
- Analysis of RA abstracts
- Presentation and overview of important websites: Owl at Purdue/ Townson/ etc. (online writing labs)
- Avoiding wordiness - writing 'clean' sentences
- Vocabulary building exercises (throughout course)
word formation charts
phrasal verb > one word equivalent
formal phrasal verbs
reporting verbs / reporting nouns (w/ generic verb) - advance
avoiding 'very'
- Punctuation (comma, colon, semi-colon) advanced exercises
- Advanced conditionals
- Review of modals - common mistakes
- Adverbial phrases
- Advanced conditionals and mixed conditionals (modal use-common mistakes)
- Dangling and misplaced modifiers
- Inversion- advanced examples
- Verbals: gerunds/gerund phrases /participial phrases/to infinitive phrases
- Position of adverbs
- Position of prepositional phrases
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2nd Semester
Topics (accompanied by exercises)
- Subject-verb agreement (common problems)
- The Subjunctive ('were to' conditional structure)
- Preparing teaching materials: reading comprehension evaluation - formulating various types of exercises/ questions
- Advanced collocations
- Short story summaries- guidelines/ strategies/examples
- Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses (punctuation)
- Collocations (also binomial and trinomial)
- Using more formal language (academic vocabulary)
- More on abstracts
'that' clauses
titles/conclusions
final sentences
- Verbals continued (participial phrases)
- Adjectives (order of)
- Prepositional phrases (order of)
- Appositives
- Pronunciation. 'ed' endings, -uation, etc.
- Analysis of RA abstracts
- More on preparing teaching materials ( various types of exercises: cloze, multiple-choice, true/false, etc.)
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Throughout the program:
- Videos and readings followed by class discussions and / or comprehension and / or vocabulary building exercises
(current event topics / biographies/ education / the arts / translation /language studies/ interviews
- Exam practice (C1+/ C2)
- Correction of peer work and paragraphs (advanced-mixed)
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Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the language assistant in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the language assistant specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Course books
- There is a 'dispensa' of past exams we will use in class. (see BL patform)
- A self study exercise book on academic vocabulary is to be downloaded (see General Message to New Students for link)
Please note: numerous websites are used for grammar and use of English. There is no grammar textbook.
Notes
Students must use their institutional email address when writng to me and indicate DIRI 1 as their course.
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