English

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2020/2021
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2021/2022
Course type: 
A foreign language, final examination
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
3
Standard lectures hours: 
24
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (24 hours)
Requirements: 

Level A2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – CEFR.

Knowledge will be verified through a PC written test or remotely online. It consists of grammar questions (fill in the gaps, syntax transformations, reading comprehension, etc.) with multiple answers

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The course, which is administered online on a multimedia platform, prepares students for the English language test for the required qualification.
It aims to offer a review of the intermediate grammar of the English language (level B1, 'Threshold’,
in the evaluation grid of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - CEFR), focusing on reading / understanding, writing, listening and use of English skills.
At the end of the course students will be able to understand and reproduce the main points of communication texts and conversations in standard language and to communicate what they have understood.

The course deals with the following grammatical topics through an online self-study course on a multimedia platform. The themes are developed through grammatical exercises of fill in the gaps, syntax transformations, reading comprehension, etc.:
- Adverbs
- Intensifiers: so, too, such
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Conditionals 1st, 2nd and 3rd
- Contrast and connecting words
- Modal verbs: might, will, should, must vs. have to
- Present simple
- Present continuous
- Past continuous
- Present perfect
- Past simple
- Phrasal verbs
- Prepositions of place
- Present perfect continuous
- Reported speech
- Simple passive
- Questions in the past
- Predictions: will, going to

OPTIONAL TEXTS:

- Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Learners of English (Inglese), 2012, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
ISBN-10: 9780521189064
ISBN-13: 978-0521189064

The activities are provided in self-learning mode through an online course on a special multimedia platform. The licenses to access the platform are assigned during the academic year upon reservation of the students, who are notified with a specific message by the administrative staff.
Students deal with the course contents by referring to the grammatical notions and theoretical contents provided by the platform, which features self-correction systems, and are followed and monitored remotely by an expert linguistic tutor.