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Peter Grenville Taylor

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13271 - Lingua Inglese - COURSE CALENDAR 2019-20 - Intermediate & Upper Intermediate (Advanced) levels

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Insegnamento 13271 Lingua Inglese - a.a. 2019/20 - Prof Peter Taylor

Course Calendar
Thursdays: Areas of Expression (Class 13-15 Aula B; Laboratory 15-17 Aula Reno)
Fridays: Text Comprehension Laboratory (13-15 - Aula Reno)
Students are required to choose 6 Areas of Expression (1-6 intermediate; 5-10 advanced)
Students opting to follow the Text Comprehension Laboratories attend 5 times (Labs1-5 = intermediate; Labs 6-10 = advanced).
Dates for attending: Intermediate: 26/9 - 8/11; Advanced 7/11 - 13/12


INTERMEDIATE LEVEL - Areas of Expression 1-6, Text Comprehension 1-5

1. Comparison & contrast: correct use of like, as, unlike, in contrast to, compared to, in comparison with, as opposed to, contrary to; comparative structures such as Jim is older than Tom, Tom is as old as Jim; Tom is less old than Jim; use of verbs such as differ, surpass, exceed, equal. - 26/9
Text Comprehension 1: 27/9

2. Expressing negation, denying & contradicting: use of negative elements not, no, never, no longer, nobody, hardly, barely etc; use of any, anyone etc; ‘negative continuity´ (nor, neither etc) across clauses/sentences; syntactic status of auxiliary verbs; informal ways of expressing disagreement. - 3/10
NB: no Text Comprehension laboratory on 4/10

3. Prediction & talking about future events/situations: how to use auxiliaries such as will, would, may, might, should in predictions; the uses of likely, unlikely; subjective vs objective expression of predictions; if and unless. - 10/10
Text Comprehension 2: 11/10

4. Talking about past events/situations: present perfect vs past pense; past perfect, progressive perfect, past progressive, would, was to, used to, temporal adverbials with since, for, by. - 17/10
Text Comprehension 3: 18/10

5. Sentence formulation for focus & contrast: marked clause structures (Ten years later he met Tom’s sister, Tom’s sister he met ten years later, It was ten years later that he met Tom’s sister, It was Tom´s sister that he met ten years later etc) - 24/10
Text Comprehension 4: 25/10

6. Putting forward ideas (assertion): formal/objective (it seems clear that../it can be argued that../it seems reasonable to think that..etc) vs informal/subjective realisations (I believe/I think/I guess/I would say.. etc), supporting with arguments (given that.., assuming that..), concession (though/although/even though/even if etc), indicating exceptions (with the exception of/except for/..), hedging (arguably, to some extent etc) - 31/10
NB: last Areas of Expression class/lab for intermediate level students
NB: no Text Comprehension laboratory on 1/11. Text Comprehension 5 (last): 8/11



ADVANCED (UPPER INTERMEDIATE ) LEVEL - Areas of Expression 5-10, Text Comprehension 6-10

5. Sentence formulation for focus & contrast: marked clause structures (Ten years later he met Tom’s sister, Tom’s sister he met ten years later, It was ten years later that he met Tom’s sister, It was Tom´s sister that he met ten years later etc) - 7/11
NB: first Areas of Expression for advanced level students - Area 5 class & lab repeated for advanced level
NB: no Text Comprehension laboratory for advanced level on 8/11

6. Putting forward ideas (assertion): formal/objective (it seems clear that../it can be argued that../it seems reasonable to think that..etc) vs informal/subjective realisations (I believe/I think/I guess/I would say.. etc), supporting with arguments (given that.., assuming that..), concession (though/although/even though/even if etc), indicating exceptions (with the exception of/except for/..), hedging (arguably, to some extent etc) - 14/11
NB: for advanced level students - Area 6 class & lab repeated for advanced level
Text Comprehension 6 (NB: first advanced level Text Comprehension Lab): 15/11

7. Accessing an Unreal World: ‘unreal’ conditionals, would, should, would have, should have, ought to have, could have, were/was to, should etc, related adverbials (in theory, in retrospect etc), I wish.., as if, if only.. . - 21/11

Text Comprehension 7: 22/11
Text Comprehension: make-up (recupero) for intermediate level (units 1-5): 22/11

8. Inserting information parenthetically: non-integrated relative clauses, as clauses, what clauses, gerund & participle clauses, apposition. - 28/11
Text Comprehension 8: 29/11

9. Reporting what others say or think: different categories of ´verba dicendi´ (they pointed out that.. vs they claimed that ..), impersonal forms (it has been said.../it has been argued that ..), verbs with infinitive complements (They believe this to be the best solution), 'raised subject' structures (This is believed to be the best result for the Labour Party since 2004), verb tense in reported discourse, 'concealed question' nouns (They do not know the full extent of the damage). - 5/12
Text Comprehension 9: 6/12

10. Representing complex events/situations using nominals: deverbal event nouns (the government's privatisation of the railways, the privatisation of the railways by the government, the railways' privatisation by the government), nouns as modifiers of nouns (UK government railway modernisation policy), the genitive construct. - 12/12
Text Comprehension 10: 13/12

Areas of Expression: short tests (´prove in itinere´): 12.15 Aula Reno (durata 30-40m)
Intermediate Level:
1&2: 18/10
3&4: 8/11
5&6: 22/11
Advanced Level:
5, 6, & 7: 29/11
8, 9, & 10: 13/12

Normal exam days:
Appello fine corso (for students who did not do the short tests or did not pass some or all of them) - Intermediate & Advanced Levels - with or without Text Comprehension:
9/1/2020

Altri appelli: 19/3/2020
(in seguito: maggio, giugno, settembre - date da stabilire)