Course Details for A.Y. 2018/2019

The information on this page refer to the academic year 2018/2019. Therefore, several links are not available and data may be incomplete. To read the current information on the course, if it is still available, go to the university course catalogue . To read information relating other academic years, use the list at the bottom of this page.

A. Year:

2018/2019

Name:

Inglese livello B1 / English as Foreign Language (Level B1)

Type:

Course

Basic information

Code:

I0117

Sector:

L-LIN/12

Credits:

: Bachelor Degree in Mathematics 3 CFU (e)

Term:

2^nd semester

Degree(s):

Bachelor Degree in Mathematics 1^st anno curriculum Generale Compulsory

Language:

English

Teacher(s):

Danilo Larivera

Course Objectives

B1 (threshold or intermediate) level

Course Content

FUNCTIONS. Asking and answering questions about personal possessions. Asking for and giving information about routines and habits. Asking for and giving information about travel and places. Asking for and giving personal details. Asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words. Asking the way and giving directions. Describing education, qualifications and skills. Describing people (personal appearance, qualities). Following and giving simple instructions. Greeting people and responding to greetings. Identifying and describing accommodation. Introducing oneself and other people. Starting and maintaining a conversation. Talking about food and ordering meals. Talking about one's health. Talking about past events and states in the past, recent activities and completed actions. Talking about the weather. Talking about what people are doing at the moment. Understanding and completing forms giving personal details. Understanding and writing diaries and letters, giving personal details. Understanding simple signs and notices.
VOCABULARY. Clothes. Daily life. Education. Entertainment and media. Environment. Food and drink. Free time. Health, medicine and exercise. Hobbies and leisure. House and home. Jobs. Languages. People. Personal feelings, opinions and experiences. Personal identification. Places and buildings. Relations with other people. Shopping. Social interaction. Sport. Transports. Travel and holidays. Weather.
PRONUNCIATION. Word stress and sentence stress. The /?/ sound ("schwa"). Minimal pairs (/I/ and /i/, /æ/ and /e/ etc...). Rising and falling intonation. "-ed" forms with /t/, /d/ and /Id
4/GRAMMAR STRUCTURES. Present simple and continuous. Present perfect simple and continuous. Past simple and continuous. Past perfect simple. Future with will and shall, be going to, present continuous and present simple. –ing forms after verbs and prepositions. Modals: can / would / will / shall / should / may / might / have to / ought to / must / mustn't / need / needn’t / used to. Phrasal verbs / verbs with prepositions. Passive forms. Have/get something done. Conditional sentences: Type O, Type 1, Type 2. Reported speech. Question words. Nouns: Singular and plural (regular and irregular forms), countable and uncountable nouns. Possessive case ('s) and double genitive. Personal pronouns (subject, object, possessive). Reflexive and emphatic pronouns. Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those. Quantitative pronouns: one, something, everybody. Indefinite pronouns: some, any, something, one. Relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose. Adjectives: colour, size, shape, quality, nationality. Cardinal and ordinal numbers; possessive; quantitative; order of adjectives; participles as adjectives; compound adjectives; comparative and superlative forms (regular and irregular). Adverbs. Prepositions. Connectives.

Learning Outcomes (Dublin Descriptors)

On successful completion of this course, the student should

Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. -
Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Prerequisites and Learning Activities

A2 (way stage or elementary) level

Assessment Methods and Criteria

For students attending classes regularly (70% min.), the written examination will involve all the listening, reading and writing activities from a standard PET (Cambridge University), expect for Reading Part 4 and Writing Paper 3. The oral test will be based on Speaking part 1 & 3 only. For students not attending classes regularly (less than 70%), the examination will include all the sections of a standard PET. Their oral test will also involve grammar/vocabulary points listed in the course contents.

Textbooks

Clare Walsh, Lindsay Warwick, Gold Preliminary Coursebook (ISBN: 9781447974772) , Pearson Longman. 2014. This is the main textbook for this course https:
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/ Clare Walsh, Lindsay Warwick, Gold Preliminary exam maximiser (ISBN: 9781447907367) , Pearson Longman. 2014. To be paired to the course book only for further exam practice https:
www.amazon.it/preliminary-maximiser-Scuole-superiori-espansione/dp
/ Gallagher, Galuzzi, Grammar and vocabulary multitrainer (ISBN: 9788883392023) , Pearson Longman. Recommended grammar textbook for revision and reference
Murphy, English Grammar in Use (ISBN: 9780521189064) , Cambridge Univ. Press. Recommended grammar textbook for revision and reference

Course page updates

This course page is available (with possible updates) also for the following academic years:

To read the current information on this course, if it is still available, go to the university course catalogue .

Course information last updated on: 22 febbraio 2019, 12:32