ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVERSATION
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: VALENTINA BURRAFATORequired Prerequisites
English level A1 (CEFR)
Detailed Course Content
MODULE A
- Present tenses: present simple and present continuous (form and use)
- Past tenses: past simple, past continuous, used to, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect (form and use)
Countable/uncountable nouns
Quantifiers
- Future tenses: will; present continuous; be going to; future continuous & future perfect (form and use)
- Comparatives and superlatives (adjectives and adverbs)
- Conditionals: zero conditional; first conditional; unless, provided/as long as; in case; second conditional; third conditional; mixed conditional
- Modal verbs
- Passive voice (form and use)
- Question tags
- Relative clauses
MODULE B
Introduction to food processing and preservation, food manufactoring, cooking techniques.Textbook Information
M. Vince, Macmillan English Grammar in Context - Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007
or
R. Murphy, English Grammar in Use - Fifth Edition, Cambridge, 2019.
Schoolbooks and online materials may be used as well.
The lecturer will provide the texts for Module B.
The use of a monolingual dictionary is recommended.
or
R. Murphy, English Grammar in Use - Fifth Edition, Cambridge, 2019.
Schoolbooks and online materials may be used as well.
The lecturer will provide the texts for Module B.
The use of a monolingual dictionary is recommended.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entry test; Present tenses: present simple and present continuous (form and use) | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 6-13 |
| 2 | Present simple vs. present continuous; past simple (form) | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 6-13 |
| 3 | Past simple (use) | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 14-17 |
| 4 | Past continuous (form and use); used to ; tense contrast. | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 14-25 |
| 5 | Countable and uncountable nouns | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 106-109 |
| 6 | Countable and uncountable nouns. Intro to quantifiers. | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 122-133 |
| 7 | Present perfect simple | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 22-25 |
| 8 | Quantifiers: some, any, no, few, a few, little, a little, most. | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 122-130 |
| 9 | Consolidation and practice | Learning materials provided by the lecturer. |
| 10 | Module B: Intro to soil. | Learning materials provided by the lecturer. |
| 11 | Module B: Soil, water, and plants. | Learning materials provided by the lecturer. |
| 12 | Question tags: present simple, past simple, present continuous, can, will, imperative, requests with “Let’s..”; Module B | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 52-53 |
| 13 | Passive voice (form and use): present simple, past simple, present continuous, present perfect, will future. | M. Vince, English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, Macmillan, 2007, pp. 78-81 |
| 14 | Module B Crops | Learning materials will be provided by the lecturer |
| 15 | Module B: Food processing. | Learning materials will be provided by the lecturer |
| 16 | Module B (Edible oils) | Learning materials will be provided by the lecturer |
| 17 | Module B (Alcoholic beverages) | Learning materials will be provided by the lecturer |
| 18 | Module B (Dairy products) | Learning materials will be provided by the lecturer |