ENGLISH (DIRI) - II YEAR
INGLESE (DIRI) - II ANNO
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| 2024/2025 |
| Language Assistant | Office hours for students | |
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| Francesca Ida Carducci | THURSDAYS AT 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
1° SEMESTER-
Summary writing skills
Opinion Essays
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
- Course books
All materials are available online. Links are provided on the Blended Learning platform.
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