ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVERSATION
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Lavinia Coniglio
Credit Value: 5
Taught classes: 14 hours
Exercise: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 5
Taught classes: 14 hours
Exercise: 42 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. B1 CEF level is the reference
Course Structure
Lessons and conversation
Detailed Course Content
- Present simple
- Present continuous
- Question words: what, where, when, why, who
- Adverbs of frequency
- Verbs of feeling: love, like, injoy, hate + ing
- 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
- Second conditional
- Used to
- Passive form
- Relative clauses: defining and non-defining
- Third conditional
- Questions tags, indirect questions
- Phrasal verbs
Textbook Information
Grammar files, blue edition with vocaboulary - Edward Jordan - Patrizia Fiocchi
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.