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ENGLISH (DIRI) - II YEAR
INGLESE (DIRI) - II ANNO

A.Y.
2022/2023
Language Assistant Email Office hours for students
Francesca Ida Carducci ONLINE - TUESDAYS AT 9.00 LINK: https://uniurb-it.zoom.us/j/83115852248?pwd=bFVDUlhzaDJkcUJhVWJ6ZmZvWktydz09

Assigned to the Degree Course

Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies (LM-37)
Curriculum: DIDATTICA E RICERCA
Date Time Classroom / Location
Date Time Classroom / Location

Learning Objectives

The student:

can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.

Program

1° -2° SEMESTER (THROUGHOUT THE YEAR)

Perfecting summary writing skills (various types of texts)

Building storytelling skills (PIXAR STORY IN A BOX - Kahn Academy, research articles and texts)

Peer work corrections in class (throughout the course as assignments are handed in)

Various reading comprehension exercises will be done throughout the year.

Video-based materials and exercises will be used throughout the year.

 Speaking activities will be based on current events, readings of interest, videos of interest

2° SEMESTER

Multimodality (based on research articles and texts)

Giving Presentations (practical advice on how to prepare and present an engaging presentation)

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GRAMMAR AND USE OF ENGLISH: THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Vocabulary building exercises (including academic language – continued)

Advanced collocations with exercises

Advanced idiomatic expressions with exercises

Editing exercises  - for example,  identifying and correcting:

  unparallel structures

  misplaced and dangling modifiers

   punctuation

  wordiness

  redundancy

Advanced grammar exercises: appositives, relative pronouns and clauses, the subjunctive, order of adjectives, position of prepositional phrases

We will be using Townson and OWL at Purdue University resources (and others)

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

Innovative teaching methods

WIKI ACTIVITIES

 FLIPPED LESSONS

Course books

All materials are available online. Links are provided on the Blended Learning platform.

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