ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Caterina Filogamo
Credit Value: 4
Taught classes: 28 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Expected learning outcomes are the following: students will develop lexical, morphological and syntactic language skills aimed to understand and interpret scientific texts and articles in their specific subject area.


Course Structure

The course takes up 28 teaching hours based on practice and interaction. The language will be studied in authentic contexts, in order to make the learners familiarize with the vocabulary in their specific field. Individual and group activities will be designed to improve the students' abilities and to learn the language in a meaningful context.

NB. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.


Detailed Course Content

Language focus: Present Simple tense; Have/Has got; Idiomatic uses of to have (to have lunch, dinner, breakfast, a shower, a walk, fun, etc.); Present Continuous tense; Possessives; Common prepositions; Adjectives ending in –ed or -ing; Past Simple; Past continuous; Past Perfect; Present Perfect (with still/yet; ever/never; for/since); Present Perfect Continuous; Quantifiers; Comparative and superlative adjectives; Future forms; Conditionals; Phrasal verbs; Common collocations.