ENGLISH LANGUAGE M - Z

The student will develop reading, written and oral comprehension and production skills related to B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), with particular reference to the linguistic specificity expected from the scope of the degree course.

1. Knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: The student will be able to produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
3. Making judgments: The student will deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken, or in multi-cultural contexts.
4. Communication skills: The students will be able to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
5. Learning skills: The student will be able to learn with a certain degree of autonomy the main translation theories for the development of a translation practice awareness, with the aid of comparative approaches.

1. Grammatical structures of the B1-B2 level

2. Reading comprehension of different types of text

3. Written and oral translation of sentences and texts of different types

4. Oral and written summaries of texts of different types

5. Short informative, opinion, and scientific writing

6. Short informative, opinion, and scientific oral expression

7. Writing of a structured abstract in a scientific publication: background, objective, methodologies, results, conclusion.

1. Grammar: R. Murphy, English Grammar in Use for Intermediate Students, Cambridge; M.Vince & G.Cerulli,Inside Grammar, MacMillan.

2. Theory and Excercise book: FRANCESCA AVEZZANO COMES, VIRGINIO RIVANO, AUGUSTA SINAPI, GIUSEPPE DE BENEDITTIS. Log In. Technical English for Computer Science & Telecommunications, Hoepli.

3. Vocabulary: Collins Cobuild Student’s Dictionary Plus Grammar, Collins, London (pre- intermediate to upper intermediate; optional CD-ROM with pronunciation help).

4. Educational materials provided by the teacher