ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVERSATION
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Roberto Quartarone
Credit Value: 4
Taught classes: 14 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 4
Taught classes: 14 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
The students will improve the four language skills (reading, speaking, listening and writing), with a technical and specialized focus.
Detailed Course Content
- Present simple and continuous, stative verbs
- Quantifiers
- Articles: a/ an, the, no article
- Past simple, continuous and perfect
- Adverbs of time; present perfect
- Future forms: going to, present continuous, will/shall
- How to use the past tenses
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Can, could, be able to (ability and possibility)
- Must, have to, should (obligation)
- Must, may, might, can't (deduction)
- First conditional
- Future time clauses + when, until, etc
- Second conditional
- Used to, past tenses review
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Reported speech
- Passive form
- Relative clauses: defining and non-defining
- Third conditional
- Questions tags, indirect questions
- Phrasal verbs
Textbook Information
The students can use their high school books or the internet resources. They can have access to the power point slideshows through this folder. Useful resources are also monolingual dictionaries (such as Oxford) or wordreference. The students can ask the teacher for further texts.