- Docente: Gabriele Azzaro
- Credits: 2
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)
Learning outcomes
B1.1 CEF level.
Course contents
Present tenses
Personal descriptions
Body parts
Family and home
Past simple & irregular verbs
Holidays
Relative clauses
Describing people and places
Questions with and without AUX
Information seeking, travelling, polite
requests
Futures: going to / will / etc.
Plans, first type IF-clauses, future
directions
Expressions of time: spend, waste time
Present perfect [have done], ever, never, yet, just, already…
Time adverbs
Questions with the pasts
Verbs + prepositions
Comparatives and superlatives
Opposite adjectives
Clothes
INF + to
Verbs + to
Verb + ing
Uses of the Gerund
Have to, must + NEG forms
Movement verbs and prepositions
First conditional (if + PRESENT will + INF)
Giving Advice
Animal names
Second conditional (if + PAST would + INF)
Get
Opportunities
Modal verbs: may/ might
Likes and dislikes
Modal verbs: should/shouldn't
Giving Advice, correcting
Present perfect + for & since
Verbs of hope, love and fear
Present perfect vs past simple
Biographies
Used to
Habits
Passives
Verbs like invent, discover, …
Indefinite pronouns: something, anything, nothing, …
Adjectives in -ed and -ing
Quantifiers: much, many, little, …, too, not enough, enough
Health and lifestyle
Phrasal verbs
Word order
So / neither + AUX
Similarities
Past perfect
ADV: suddenly, immediately, …
Reported speech
Say, tell, speak, ask
Readings/Bibliography
Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig, and Paul Seligson (2013)
English File Digital 3rd Edition Pre-Intermediate, Oxford,
Oup.
https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/local/it/english_file_3rd_Dig_it/english_file_dig_third_edition_pre-intermediate/?cc=it&start=5&cc=it&selLanguage=it&mode=hub
Teaching methods
Language labs and home activities.
Assessment methods
True/False, cloze, listening, writing test.
Teaching tools
Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig, and Paul Seligson (2013)
English File Digital 3rd Edition Pre-Intermediate, Oxford,
Oup.
https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/local/it/english_file_3rd_Dig_it/english_file_dig_third_edition_pre-intermediate/?cc=it&start=5&cc=it&selLanguage=it&mode=hub
Office hours
See the website of Gabriele Azzaro