- Docente: Francesca Gattullo
- Credits: 2
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary Teacher Education (cod. 5711)
Course contents
English language and culture. A brief revision of English grammar from A2+ upwards. Students will NOT be divided into proficiency groups.
NB. Students attending this workshop in order to take the second year exam.
Readings/Bibliography
It will be notified before the beginning of the course.
Teaching methods
The methods and techniques used may include: reading and comprehension exercises in small groups, form-focussed grammar revision individually and in small groups, listening practice with small group exercises, flipped classroom student presentations of lexical, grammatical and video material, production of short texts, poems, scripts based on the language presented in the book, Grammar-Drama activities (acting out original scripts exemplifying grammar and pronunciation issues), songs, role-play, videos, collaborative and individual writing on paper and on Moodle/Virtuale
Assessment methods
After attending the course, students will have to take a comprehensive language exam. In case of a fail, exams can be taken in consecutive regular appelli.
The exam will consist of a B1 language test which includes: Lexical exercises (naming objects, describing simple pictures, filling in the gaps in a text, finding the right words to describe a room, school, house, natural landscape, outdoor scene, etc., all at B1 level); Grammar exercises (sentence completion, grammatical choice, verb tenses, irregular verbs, pronouns, comparatives and superlatives, conditionals, etc., all at B1 level with about 20% of B1+ items); a Reading exercise (a short text with T/F/Not said questions, word definitions, simple synonym identification, title or sentence insertion, etc.); a Writing on familiar topics (describing people, common situations, simple school activities, etc., at least 100 words). The exam lasts 60 minutes.
There is no session skipping or salto di appello.
Teaching tools
Apart from the book, students will work with presentations, audio clips, photos, videos online, Padlet or similar, own cell phones to contribute materials on shared platforms like Virtuale, or to ask questions online, besides traditional paper-based tools.
Office hours
See the website of Francesca Gattullo