english intro intensive june-july 2014
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Introduction to my B1 intensive course at CLA, Roma Tre UniversityTRANSCRIPT
English intensive12 June–21 July 201413 lessons; 26 hours
Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world is living in condition approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of that people.” It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there number felt by half as a shares of the total population in developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1 billion people.
Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
find 20 errors
Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world is living in condition approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of that people.” It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there number felt by half as a shares of the total population in developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1 billion people.
Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
find 20 errors
Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world are living in conditions approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of those people.” It has taken much longer than Truman hoped, but the world has lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, their number fell by half as a share of the total population in developing countries, from 43% to 21%—a reduction of almost 1 billion people.
Now the world has a serious chance to redeem Truman’s pledge to lift the least fortunate. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsist below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a day...The Economist – 1st June 2013
English intensive12 June–21 July 201413 lessons; 26 hours
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June2 Monday 16 June3 Thursday 19 June4 Monday 23 June5 Thursday 26 June6 Monday 30 June7 Thursday 03 July8 Monday 07 July9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July11 Wednesday 16 July12 Thursday 17 July13 Monday 21 July
date and timeto be confirmed
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June2 Monday 16 June3 Thursday 19 June4 Monday 23 June5 Thursday 26 June6 Monday 30 June7 Thursday 03 July8 Monday 07 July9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July11 Wednesday 16 July12 Thursday 17 July13 Monday 21 July
final presentations
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June2 Monday 16 June3 Thursday 19 June4 Monday 23 June5 Thursday 26 June6 Monday 30 June7 Thursday 03 July8 Monday 07 July9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July11 Wednesday 16 July12 Thursday 17 July13 Monday 21 July
your approach
60,924,000
60,924,000
population of Italy
2,014,000
2,014,000students in higher
education
3.3%
3.3%
% of uni students in Italy
3.3%
this number means you are
special
in these lessonsI expect your approach
to show this
in other words
please bring your intelligence and commitment to class
about learning English
intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!
intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!
‘drift’
?
progress
time
progress
time
Can you describe this
graph?
progress
time
the intermediate plateau
English as object of study
English as means of communication
vocab:1,000-3,000words
vocab:15,000+words
grammar:past, present, future
grammaras asystem
foreign language as alien
foreign language as culture
what can you do to get pastthe intermediate plateau
?
about this course
components:
grammar
grammarwe decide the grammar syllabus
together
some ideas…
grammar verbs vs. main verbswould have donepresent perfectfuture tensesmodal verbsword order
something else
pronunciation
pronunciation
every Monday
pronunciationthe English phonetic system
is different
video comprehension
video comprehension
every Thursday
in class
in class‘show and tell’every lesson
in classgroup presentationsinstead of final exam
on the forum
1. lesson summaries
2. grammar homework
English Grammar in UseUnits 15-16-----------I’ve done the exercises. It took me 20 minutes.I understood everything except 2.4 – why is “….” not right?
example post
examples of how you can get English practice
watch a film in EnglishTED
iTunes UBBC or other reading on the internet
reading a research paper for your subjecttalking to Anglophone tourists in the pub
3. anything you find interesting
The forum is your space. Use it to post anything you find, interesting, curious or useful. You can ask for help and you can propose problems for discussion.
Remember that you can learn a lot from your classmates
- read their writing homework- try to answer their questions
resources for this course
all the links on the following pages can be found at:
https://pinboard.in/u:davidatrome/t:Roma3/
resources: I
grammar book
buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
OK not ‘steal’
intermediate 4th edition with answers
(CD-ROM optional)
intermediate 4th edition with answers
(CD-ROM optional)
NB don’t buy
the iOS
version: it
isn’t the same
resources: II
CLACSON
Moodle@CLA
http://clacson.uniroma3.it
no capitals
no spaces
no accents
resources: III
dictionaries
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD)
www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com
Bi-lingual dictionaries
don’t use them!
Bi-lingual dictionaries
but if you must…
WordReference
http://www.wordreference.com/
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/o#.UbBFkha0LzI
resources: V
video and audio practice
iTunes U
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u
TED(Technology, Entertainment, Design)
www.ted.com
The BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
some good places to read:
BBC – www.bbc.co.ukThe Economist – www.economist.comWired – www.wired.comThe New Yorker – www.newyorker.comand alsoMy paper.li – paper.li/f-1337027006
if you have any problems about anything related to this course
write to me onMoodle@CLA
www.davidnicholson.it