SCIENZE BIOLOGICHE, GEOLOGICHE E AMBIENTALIBiologia ambientaleAnno accademico 2022/2023

1003552 - ULTERIORI CONOSCENZE LINGUISTICHE LINGUA INGLESE

Docente: PAOLO GIUSEPPE CARUSO

Risultati di apprendimento attesi


Prerequisiti richiesti

PREREQUISITI RICHIESTI I prerequisiti pregressi sono riconducibili alle passate competenze scolastiche, raggiunte nel corso della secondaria superiore. Il livello di partenza è B1 per il raggiungimento del B2, come previsto dal regolamento di Ateneo.

Contenuti del corso

Contenuti del corso

ARGOMENTI SCIENTIFICI : THE EVOLUTION OF OUR ATMOSPHERE. HABITAT & POLLUTION. THE WATER CYCLE. THE BIOREGION : OUR PLACE IN THE NATURAL WORLD. SUTAINABILITY. CLIMATE CHANGES. THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT. SOURCES OF ENERGY. NUCLEAR ISSUES. RENEWABLE ENERGY. ALTERNATIVE SOURCES: SOLAR, WIND, TIDAL, GEOTHERMAL ENERGY, BIOENERGY, WATER POWER.

STRUTTURE LINGUISTICHE BASATE SU ARGOMENTI E UNITA' DIDATTICHE .

Unit 1 – Question forms. SuffixesFormal and informal writing

Unit 2 – Present simple and present continuousAdjectives and adverbs

Unit 3 – 'Like' as a verb and preposition. PrefixesUsing 'like' as a filler word

Unit 4 – Adverbs of Frequency.Commuting and adverbs of frequency. Two ways to say 'often'

Unit 5 – 'Have to' and 'must'Future and past usage. Language practice.

'Have got to' versus 'have to'.

Unit 6 – Past Simple.

-ing and –ed adjectives.

Unit 7 – Past simple and continuous.

Unit 8 - ArticlesGrammar. When to use 'the' . When to use the zero article.

Compound adjectives

Unit 9 – 'Going to' and present continuous. Past, present or future?

'Going to' and present continuous to talk about the future.

Different ways to talk about the future. Language for making plans

Unit 10 – Verb patterns. When to use the gerund and when the infinitive after a verb.

Unit 11 – Past participles and the present perfect. Present perfect with 'never' and 'ever'

Unit 12 – Present perfect with 'for' and 'since'.

Unit 13 – Comparatives and superlativesMuch and more.More about comparatives. Comparing nouns

Superlatives and comparatives activity.

Unit 14 – 'Just', 'already' and 'yet' with the present perfect tenseCompound nouns

Unit 15 – Defining relative clausesGetting a handle on relative clauses.

Wh- / Relative clausesDescriptions with relative clauses

Unit 16 –Understanding might, may and could. Using will and might.

May, might and could for possibility.

Unit 17 – REVISION

Unit 18 – 'Too', 'very', 'enough'Modifying adjectives with 'too', 'very' and 'enough'

Unit 20 – Tenses : present simple, present continuous, past simple, present perfect;

going to, present continuous with future meaning.

Mixed tenses.

Talking about plans for the future.

Unit 21 – 'if' and 'whether'

Unit 22 – REVISION

Unit 23 – First conditional'If' + present simple + will

Unit 24 – The second conditionalWould it be better if…

Third conditional.

State verbs and action verbs.

Unit 25 – Present perfect and past simple.

Unit 26 – Question tags

Unit 27– 'might' and 'be likely to' .

Unit 28– 'Used to' and 'would'.

Suggestions, instructions and advice

Unit 30 –, 'be able to' and 'manage to' in context. Present and past modals of ability.



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