ENGLISH (CIDI) - II YEAR
INGLESE (CIDI) - II ANNO
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| 2024/2025 |
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| Francesca Ida Carducci | THURSDAYS 13.00 CLA |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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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
TOPICS FOR READING/LISTENING/WATCHING AND DISCUSSION RELATED TO CROSS- CULTURAL RELATIONS, BUSINESS AND COMMERCE
1° SEMESTER
readings, videos, discussions
- A Letter to Garcia (and the story of Elbert Hubbard)
- cancel culture
- cognitive bias
- storytelling
- conspiracy theories
- economic bubbles
- circular economy
2° SEMESTER
readings, videos, discussions
- etiquette in the workplace
- job interviews
- body language
- business models
- multimodality in advertising and communication
- presentation strategies
Throughout the year:
- current events of interest
- cultural aspects of business communication
- business idioms
WRITING PRACTICE
motivational letters
cover letters
CVs
summary writing (skimming and other strategies)
storytelling
GRAMMAR AND USE OF ENGLISH
- Advanced:
punctuation
verbals (gerund and ‘to-infinitive’ phrases)
relative clauses
the articles (omission of the def. article)
prepositions
connectives
parallelism in sentence structure
collocations
reporting verbs
reducing wordiness
vocabulary building
editing
business idioms and sayings/ collocations/ phrasal verbs
using online tools like Grammarly
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
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