LEE Elizabeth Anne

Programma: 

Questo corso tratta la grammatica, il lessico, le funzioni e le abilità fondamentali richieste agli studenti della facoltà a livello CEFR B1 (+) e pertanto prevede le seguenti aree:
- reading skills (skimming, scanning, summarizing, interpreting, inferring);
spoken fluency (describing general and work situations, paraphrasing, explaining, clarifying, coherence and cohesion, problem solving, presentations, telephoning, persuading);
- listening & writing (note taking, paraphrasing, completing forms, reports, describing visual data)
- vocabulary extension (common engineering vocabulary and more specialized vocabulary e.g. civil engineering, plastics and materials, renewable energy, aeronautics etc)
word attack skills (word formation, word families, prefixes, suffixes, collocations, compounds)
- grammatical structures (present, past, future, conditional, simple, continuous, perfect, active and passive tenses, adjectives, superlatives and comparatives, adverbs and adverbial phrases, nouns, articles and pronouns, determiners and quantifiers, cause, questions, direct and indirect speech, modals, relative clauses, conjunctions, use of -ing and the infinitive)

Programma: 

L’obiettivo di questo corso è preparare gli studenti a situazioni accademiche e professionali di livello avanzato in cui dovranno utilizzare la lingua inglese. Il corso coprirà le principali strutture grammaticali, il lessico, le funzioni comunicative e le competenze richieste agli studenti a un livello CEFR B2. Basandosi sulle quattro competenze linguistiche — lettura, scrittura, ascolto e parlato — porterà gli studenti da situazioni linguistiche più controllate a un uso della lingua con maggiore enfasi su fluidità e accuratezza. Pertanto, il programma tratterà:
- reading skills (advanced skimming and scanning, critical analysis of texts, evaluating arguments, reading technical manuals, research articles and engineering reports);
- spoken fluency (discussing and evaluating study and work situations in detail, hypothesizing, speculating, justifying opinions, negotiating solutions, participating in meetings, delivering structured presentations on technical topics, handling questions, telephoning in professional contexts, persuading and influencing, debating, managing turn-taking, using appropriate register and discourse markers for coherence and cohesion);
- listening & writing (understanding extended speech and lectures on technical subjects, following complex instructions and discussions, critical note-taking, summarizing and synthesizing information, writing reports and formal emails, describing and interpreting complex visual data such as graphs, charts and processes, writing proposals and project descriptions);
- critical thinking (analyzing and evaluating arguments, identifying assumptions and bias, problem-solving in technical contexts, comparing alternative solutions, decision-making, supporting arguments with evidence);
vocabulary extension: (advanced word formation, use of prefixes and suffixes in technical terminology, recognizing word families across disciplines, collocations and lexical chunks, compounds);
- grammatical structures (accurate and flexible use of a wide range of structures: complex tense usage, mixed conditionals, passive structures in formal/technical writing, modal verbs for speculation, deduction and obligation, advanced relative clauses, participle clauses, discourse markers, hedging and emphasis, inversion, reported speech in formal contexts, linking devices for cohesion in extended discourse).