LABORATORIO DI LINGUA INGLESE

Il corso è progettato per migliorare le competenze linguistiche degli studenti e lo sviluppo delle quattro abilità principali in conversazione e scrittura (abilità produttive), ascolto e lettura (abilità ricettive). Obiettivo del corso è il raggiungimento delle competenze specificate nei descrittori per il livello B1 del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le lingue (QCER). Questo livello si concentra sulla capacità degli studenti di comunicare con sicurezza in varie situazioni e di comprendere i punti principali di un testo standard chiaro su argomenti familiari.

Lezioni frontali, interattive basate sull’approccio comunicativo. Inoltre le lezioni si baseranno sulle metodologie cooperative learning, che promuove il lavoro a coppie o in piccoli gruppi, e il learning by discovery, attraverso l’esplorazione attiva degli studenti.

Competenze di livello A2 (secondo il Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le lingue (QCER).

Gli argomenti inclusi in questo syllabus forniscono un'indicazione della gamma di voci grammaticali, funzioni, lessico e argomenti che i candidati dovranno di conoscere. I suddetti argomenti sono specificati nei descrittori per il livello B1 del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le lingue (QCER).

GRAMMAR:

Verb tenses (Affirmative, negative, interrogative, short answers) 

• Present simple (states and habits)
• Present continuous (future plans, present actions)
• Present simple vs continuous
• Past simple (past events) 
• Past continuous (past actions, continuous actions interrupted by the past simple)
• Past simple vs continuous 
• Past perfect simple (narrative, action which occurs before another in the past)
• Present perfect simple (recent and indefinite past; unfinished past with for and since) 
• Present perfect continuous (unfinished action with for – visible result of an action)
• Future: future simple; present continuous; “be going to” for intentions and predicting the future based on present evidence; will and shall
• Future will vs Be going to 
• Used to/would for past habits, routines and states. Be used to/Get used to
• Would like to: to express preferences
• Conditionals “ZERO”, first and second

Modals 

• Ability (can, be able to, manage to) 
• Ability, possibility in the past (could, was allowed to) 
• Possibility (may/might/could) 
• Obligation (have to, ought to, must, supposed to, need to) 
• Permission (can, to be allowed to) 
• Prohibition (mustn’t, not allowed to, can’t) 
• Necessity or lack of (need or needn’t) 
• Suggestion (ought to, should)

Passive Voice 

Present, past, present perfect and future forms (verb To Be + Past Participle).

Adjectives 

Common adjectives/-ed and –ing form; order of adjectives. 

Adverbs 

Adverbs of manner, adverbs of frequency, adverbial phrases, adverbs of degree (rather and quite), place and direction, regular and irregular. 

Connectors 

However, although, even though, in case, despite, in spite of, due to, because of, unless, in other words, in order to , so that, therefore, as well as, such as, yet. 

Comparatives and superlatives 

• Regular and irregular adjectives 
• Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs 
• as..... as, not so/as .... as 

Countable and uncountable nouns 

Articles with countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers. 

Gerunds 

Gerunds and Infinitives: Infinitives with and without to after verbs, gerunds after verbs and prepositions, gerunds as subjects and objects.

Direct/Indirect/Negative questions 

Indirect and embedded questions: Know, wonder, etc. 

Prepositions to indicate: location (on, inside...) / time (in, during…)/ direction (in, out of...)/prepositional phrases (at the beginning…)/ prepositions preceding and following nouns (by bus, at last) prepositions in phrasal verbs. 

Reflexive pronouns 

Myself, yourself, itself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves, oneself etc.

Relative pronouns and clauses 

Defining/non-defining or extra information clauses. 

FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH 

• Apologising, criticising and complaining 
• Asking for and giving information on a variety of topics
• Describing past events and states in the past 
• Describing recent activities and completed actions 
• Describing feelings and personalities 
• Describing routines and habits 
• Describing people (appearance and personality) 
• Expressing ability and inability in the past 
• Talking about obligations, possibility and ability 
• Warning and talking about prohibition 
• Giving advice 
• Making arrangements 
• Making comparisons and expressing degrees of difference 
• Making predictions/ talking about future plans and intentions 
• Making spontaneous decisions 
• Making suggestions 
• Offering, inviting, refusing 

TOPICS

• Careers/work/education 
• Entertainment (books, films, culture and art) 
• Weather, Environment and Pollution 
• Feelings and opinions 
• Food and drink 
• Health and fitness/sports 
• Interests and free time 
• Technology and media 
• Travel and tourism

• Murphy, R. (2019) English Grammar In Use, A self-study reference and practice book for Intermediate learners of English with answers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Hey, L. Oxford Student's Dictionary, The complete intermediate to advanced level dictionary for learners of English, Fourth Edition. In alternativa il dizionario online WordReference https://www.wordreference.com/definition/ o Cambridge Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ .

• Risorse aggiuntive: Piattaforme Online (BBC Learning English https://www.youtube.com/@bbclearningenglish/featured, British Council Learn English Video Zone https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/video-zone, TED Talks for Language Practice https://www.ted.com/playlists/655/great_ted_talks_for_language_practice, ESL Brains https://eslbrains.com/).

• Dispense integrative, link per esercizi e materiali di lettura supplementari forniti dalla docente.

La verifica finale, in coerenza con gli obiettivi di apprendimento, sarà effettuata prediligendo la modalità orale attraverso un colloquio introduttivo e la traduzione sul posto di un set di frasi che presentano diversi gradi di difficoltà dall'italiano all'inglese.

Colloquio introduttivo: 

1. What's your name/surname? 
2. How do you spell it? 
3. Can you tell me about yourself, your family and your hometown? 
4. How do you like to spend your free time? 
5. Can you describe your family? 
6. Who are the most important people in your life?
7. What is the most important thing you've learned in the last year?

Esempi di frasi da tradurre dall'Italiano all'Inglese:

1. Lavoro in un piccolo ufficio in centro.
2. Attualmente sto studiando per il mio esame di inglese.
3. Ha lavorato su questo progetto da gennaio.
4. Mentre stavo cucinando la cena, il telefono ha squillato.
5. Ti chiamerò domani sera.
6. Quando ero bambino, giocavo a calcio.
7. Credevo che tu fossi già partito.