LINGUA INGLESE I (AA 2012/2013)

Lingue Triennale Letterature e lingue moderne e classiche - 6 crediti

Obiettivo: Acquisizione delle strutture, funzioni e lessico fondamentale della lingua inglese scritta e orale arrivando a un livello intermediate B1/B2.
Struttura del corso: Esercitazioni in gruppi di competenza omogenea. Gli studenti saranno suddivisi in gruppi sulla base dei risultati di un test d’ingresso (solo per lett e ling moderne e classiche) che si terrà :

LUNEDI' 24 SETTEMBRE 2012 ORE 8.30-10 AULA MAGNA DRIGO - Via Paradiso 12. 

Gli studenti che non saranno presenti al test dovranno contattare il professore nel suo orario di ricevimento per essere assegnati a un gruppo prima di poter seguire le esercitazioni.

GRAMMAR PROGRAM:

Determiners:
some/any/no  
much/many  
a lot/a little/a few  
less/least/fewer  
enough, too, too much  
other/another  

Adjectives and adverbs (ex. kind/kindly) ex.(interested/interesting)  
Still, yet, already  
Adverbs of frequency  
even.........only  

Comparatives and superlatives:
regular and irregular adjectives.  
as....as  
Difference between Like and as, so and such, very and too  

Verbs: be, have, do and make  
be with age, height, weight, size, colour, physical conditions  
do as an emphatic auxiliary (ex. I do love you)  
when to use do or make (ex. do homework/make an effort)  
have for actions (ex. have breakfast, have a rest)  
have got used for possession or relationships, characteristics  
have for habitual /repeated actions(ex. we have Geography every Monday)  
have+object+verb form(ex. I must have my watch repaired)  

Modal Auxiliary verbs:
must, can, may, might used with which degree of certainty  
must, should and ought to for obligation  
must and have to for obligation  
must not, do not have to, don't need to for prohibition and unnecessary actions  
can, could and may for ability, permission, offers, requests and instructions  
will used for willingness, intentions, threats and promises (Future tense)  
Will to talk about habits and typical behaviour  
Shall in questions  
Should have, could have and would have for unreal past situations  
Need, had better, used to, supposed to  

Tenses:
Use of the Present Simple  
Present Continuous  
Present Perfect  
Past Simple  
Past Perfect  
Present Perfect Continuous  
Past Perfect Continuous  
Past Continuous  
Use of " For and since"  

The Future Tense:
using the present simple, present continuous, to be going to, will, shall  
future tense after if and when  

The Passive(with all tenses)  

Structures after verbs, adjectives and nouns
Infinitives or ing: Verbs followed by the infinitive or by the gerund ing  
Prepositions followed by –ing (ex. we are interested in going to Malta this summer)  
to...ing (ex. I look forward to hearing from you)
verbs which take the infinitive or -ing (ex. I can't help liking her/We decided to stay at home)
go +ing (ex. Let's go walking)
need +ing (ex. My car needs washing)  
Structures with get  

Basic sentence-structures
Question formation  
Negatives  
Imperatives  
Question tags  

Conjunctions
Conjunctions to join sentences (ex. but, because, while and if)  
Conjunctions: putting in order events (ex. before/after/firstly)  
How to use: so that, as long as, provided, while, until, as if, though, although, in spite of, because of)  
Both .......and; neither......nor  

Reported Speech
Word Change in reported speech (ex. here becomes there/this becomes that)  
Reported speech: back-shifting of all tenses, with questions, infinitives  
Difference between say and tell  

Conditional Tense
Zero conditional (ex. Do not drive if you feel dizzy)
First conditional (ex. I will pick you up if I have time)
Second conditional (ex. I would pick you up if I had time)
Third conditional (ex. I would have picked you up if I had had time)
Structures with if, when, unless, in case
Use of - If I were you
Use of -I wish, if only  

Relative Clauses
who, which, that, whom, whose

Phrasal Verbs

Phonetics

Writing

• Academic Writing
• Writing informal versus formal letters
• E-mails, correspondence
• Creative and descriptive