Administrative, Political and Economic Sciences

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Course objectives

The course focuses on the development of the three main skills related to learning English as L2: speaking (oral production in real communicative situations), listening (comprehension of short oral texts and dialogues), reading (general understanding and details' understanding for different texts' contents). The review and consolidation of previously learned grammatical structures and the expansion of the vocabulary constitute two other fundamental course objectives. During the course students will be given the opportunity to listen to different accents through systematic listening. The course also aims to direct students towards a strategic use of the resources available to them (course book, grammar book and specialized websites, workbook, mono and bilingual vocabularies and resources tailored to the needs that will emerge during the course itself). The official course is competed by language training classes, also addressed, albeit in different ways, to the development of the main skills related to learning English as a second language and based on the student's starting level. The analysis of newpaper articles about political issues is also part of the course programme and will be presented by students orally.

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Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program

1) Grammar and syntax: - nouns: collocations, compounds and noun phrases - pronouns: possessive, reflexive, relative, interrogative - verbs tenses: (present forms, past forms, future forms, progressive forms), modals and semi-modals, passive - interrogative and negative forms for all the analysed verb forms - reported speech - phrasal verbs and conjunctions 2) Listening and comprehension (gist and detailed tasks) Students can find a detailed course introduction in "bacheca docente" (Giglioni) Language training classes: please visit language assistants' web-page (Christopher King e Annabel Potter)

Prerequisites

Entry language level: B1 (Common European Framework of Reference). Students will be tested at the beginning of the academic year with a placement test. Studens who dont' meet the language level requirement have to attend at least 75% of language classes to be allowed to do the exam.

Books

Per monografico: M. Powel, In Company 3.0. Intermediate, MacMillan. (con extension online inclusa). Per 6 CFU unit da 1 a 12 e 19, 20. Per 9 CFU: Management scenario (a,b,c,d) e Interviews (sono incluse nel coursebook) Per le esercitazioni: i testi adottati variano in base al livello delle esercitazioni (intermedio o pre-intermedio). Per favore consultare la pagina web del collaboratore linguistico (Christopher King, Annabel Potter)

Frequency

Students will be tested at the beginning of the academic year with a placement test. Studens who dont' meet the language level requirement have to attend at least 75% of language classes to be allowed to do the exam.

Exam mode

The exam is divided into two components: a written test (it includes a listening and comprehension exercise, a gap filling excercise and cloze test) and an oral test (discussion of selected readings). The listening and comprehension includes closed and semi-closed questions which are based on the corusebook and the workbook and the a gap filling exercise (lasting 10 minutes) will test grammar and vocabulary from the coursebook. The cloze test has 30 gaps and lasts 30 minutes. All the components of the exam contribute to the evaluation of the learning outcomes (final mark)

Lesson mode

Lectures, pair and group work, language training classes

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