ENGLISH

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Course Sheet

Course code:

AI003

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2017/2018

Divisions:

Gruppo B

Type of Course:

Language/Final Examination

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Is part of:

ENGLISH

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

COSTANTINI ANNA MARIA

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Language requirements: The minimum recommended language level is B1

Objectives

Aims and Objectives
Students should be able to communicate satisfactorily in
most everyday situations with both native and non-native
speakers of English. This aim corresponds to the
recommendations of the Council of Europe’s Threshold
Specification.
Reading
Using the structures and topics listed in this Handbook,
candidates should be able to understand public notices
and signs; to read short texts of a factual nature and show
understanding of the content; to demonstrate
understanding of the structure of the language as it is
used to express notions of relative time, space,
possession, etc.; to scan factual material for information
in order to perform relevant tasks, disregarding redundant
or irrelevant material; to read texts of an imaginative or
emotional character and to appreciate the central sense
of the text, the attitude of the writer to the material and the
effect it is intended to have on the reader.
Writing
Students should be able to give information, report
events, and describe people, objects and places as well
as convey reactions to situations, express hopes, regrets,
pleasure, etc.
They should also be able to use the words they know
appropriately and accurately in different written contexts,
and be capable of producing variations on simple
sentences.
Listening
Students should be able to understand and respond to
public announcements; to show precise understanding of
short factual utterances and to make identifications on the
basis of these; to extract information of a factual nature
(times, dates, etc.) from speech which will contain
redundancies and language outside the defined limits of
the B1 level Syllabus; to understand the sense of a
dialogue and show appreciation of the attitudes and
intentions of the speakers.
Speaking
Students should be able to express themselves in order
to fulfil the functions listed in the Syllabus in situations
which simulate authentic communication. They should be
able to ask and to understand questions and make
appropriate responses, and should be able to talk freely in
order to express emotions, reactions, etc

Contents

Content: - language items at level B2
- acquisition of terms for buildings as a whole (e.g. church, mansion)
refer to: Category:Buildings and structures and List of building types
Names for parts of buildings defined by their function (e.g. kitchen, nave)
refer to: Category:Rooms
The names of styles of buildings or architectural movements (e.g. gothic, Bauhaus)
refer to: Category:Architectural styles
Building materials or construction methods (e.g. thatch)
refer to: Category:Building materials

Extended Syllabus

Syllabus – INGLESE B2
Functions
• asking and answering questions about personal possessions
• asking and giving/refusing permission to do something
• asking and telling people the time, day and/or date
• asking for and giving information about routines and habits
• asking for and giving personal details: (full) name, age, address, names of relatives
and friends occupation etc
• asking for and giving simple information about places
• asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words
• asking for and giving travel information
• asking for repetition and clarification
• asking the way and giving directions
• buying and selling things (costs, measurements and amounts)
• changing the topic
• checking on meaning and intention
• counting and using numbers
• criticising and complaining
• describing people (personal appearance, qualities)
• describing simple processes
• describing, education qualifications and skills
• drawing simple conclusions and making recommendations
• expressing ability/inability in the present and in the past
• expressing agreement and disagreement and contradicting people
• expressing and responding to thanks
• expressing degrees of certainty and doubt
• expressing needs and wants
• expressing obligation and lack of obligation
• expressing opinions and making choices
• expressing preferences, like and dislikes (especially about hobbies and leisure
activities)
• expressing purpose, cause and result and giving reasons
• following and giving simple instructions
• giving advice
• giving and responding to invitations
• giving warnings and prohibitions
• greeting people and responding to greetings (in person and on the phone)
• helping others to express ideas
• identifying and describing accommodation (houses, flats, rooms, furniture etc.)
• identifying and describing simple objects (shapes, size, weight, colour purpose or
use etc.)
• interrupting
• introducing oneself and other people
• making and granting/refusing simple requests
• making and responding to apologies and excuses
• making and responding to offers and suggestions
• making appointments and arranging to meet
• making comparisons and expressing degrees of difference
• making predictions
• paying compliments
• persuading and asking/telling people to do something
• reporting what people say
• re-stating what has been said
• resuming the topic
• starting a new topic
• sympathising
• talking about food and ordering meals
• talking about how to operate things
• talking about one’s health
• talking about physical and emotional feelings
• talking about probability/improbability and possibility/impossibility
• talking about the weather
• talking and writing about future or imaginary situations
• talking and writing about future plans or intentions
• talking and writing about past events and states in the past, recent activities and
completed actions
• talking and writing about what people are doing at the moment
• understanding and completing forms giving personal details
• understanding and producing simple narratives
• understanding and writing diaries and letters giving information about everyday
activities
• understanding and writing letters giving personal details
• understanding simple signs and notices
Skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing and interaction)
• understanding signs, notices,and texts of a factual nature
• understanding and writing diaries, faxes and letters (job applications, apologies,
complaints, advice..)
• skimming and scanning (newspapers, brochures, magazines, biographies,
narrative...)
• understanding and writing imaginative or emotional texts
• talking and writing about emotions, reactions, events, hopes, regrets etc.
• talking and writing about objects, people, places etc
• reporting events (film/book review, current affairs...)
• writing notes
• giving information
• asking and understanding questions and responding to them
• understanding and expressing opinions (advantages, disadvantages)
• understanding interaction (dialogues, conversation, anecdotes..)
• understanding short turns (phone, announcements, ..)
• understanding professional long turns (speeches, talks, stories, radio
programmes...)
• interacting in social and professional situations
Vocabulary groups
• current affairs
• daily life
• education
• entertainment
• environment
• feelings
• food and drink
• free time
• health and body
• house and home
• language
• personal information
• places
• relations with other people
• services
• shopping
• travel
• weather
Pronunciation
• stress patterns, rhythm and prominence; reduced speech, intonation patterns, vowel
reduction, vowel length, final consonants and consonant clusters for the listening skill
• appropriate stress patterns and linking in everyday speech (interactional)
• intonation patterns (questions, echo questions, statements, agreeing and
disagreeing, checking and confirming..)
• stress patterns, reduced speech, linking and intonation in longer turns
• difficulty areas for Italian students
Structures
• abstract nouns
• adjectives (predicative and attributive)
• adjectives (colour, shape, size, quality, nationality)
• adverbs of definite time
• adverbs of degree
• adverbs of direction
• adverbs of frequency
• adverbs of indefinite time
• adverbs of manner
• adverbs of place
• adverbs of sequence
• article a/an
• article the
• both, either, neither
• comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
• comparative and superlative forms of adverbs
• compound adjectives
• compound nouns
• conditional sentences type 0
• conditional sentences type 1
• conditional sentences type 2
• conditional sentences type 3
• connectors (although, while)
• connectors (and, or, but, either.or)
• connectors (because, since, so, for..)
• connectors (if, unless)
• connectors (so that, to)
• connectors (so.that, so, such .that)
• connectors (when, while, until, before, after, as soon as..)
• connectors (where)
• could ( polite requests)
• countable and uncountable (some, any)
• demonstrative adjectives (this, that, those, these)
• double genitive (a friend of theirs)
• future with going to
• future with present continuous and present simple
• future with will and shall (offers, promises predictions etc)
• genitive 's and s'
• gerunds (-ing form) after verbs and prepositions
• gerunds as subjects and objects
• have to (obligation)
• how, how much, how many, how often, how long etc.
• imperatives
• in case
• indirect / embedded questions (know wonder)
• infinitives after verbs and prepositions (with or without to)
• may (possibility)
• might (possibility)
• must (obligation)
• mustn't (obligation)
• need (necessity)
• needn't (lack of necessity)
• not. any more/longer
• numbers (cardinal and ordinal)
• order of adjectives
• ought to (obligation)
• participles as adjectives
• passive forms (present and past simple)
• past continuous ( parallel actions, continuous action interrupted by past simple)
• past perfect simple (narrative, reported speech)
• past simple (past events)
• phrasal verbs / verbs with prepositions
• position of adverbs
• possessive adjectives
• possibility, ability (can, be able to)
• prepositional phrases (at the beginning of, by means of.)
• prepositions (like, as, due to, owing to .)
• prepositions after nouns (afraid of.)
• prepositions after verbs (ask for laugh at.)
• prepositions before nouns and adjectives (by car, for sale, at last)
• prepositions of direction
• prepositions of instrument
• prepositions of place
• prepositions of time
• present continuous (future plans, future activities, present actions)
• present perfect continuous (unfinished actions, continuous action recently finished)
• present perfect simple (recent past, indefinite past, unfinished past, just, yet,
already, never, ever, for, since)
• present simple (states, habits, systems and processes)
• pronouns (demonstrative)
• pronouns (impersonal)
• pronouns (indefinite)
• pronouns (personal - subject, object, possessive)
• pronouns (quantitative)
• pronouns (reflexive and emphatic)
• pronouns (relative)
• quantitative adjectives (some, any, much, many, a few, a lot of, all, other, every etc.)
• question tags
• regular and irregular forms of adverbs
• relative clauses (defining and non-defining)
• reported commands/requests (say, ask, tell)
• reported questions (say, ask, tell)
• reported statements (say, ask, tell)
• shall (suggestion, offer)
• short answers
• should (advice)
• singular and plural
• so/nor with auxiliaries
• used to + infinitive (past habits)
• verb + object + infinitive with or without to (make, let, allow)
• verb + object + infinitive + direct/indirect object (give, take, send, bring, show)
• what, what + noun
• when
• where
• who, whose, which
• why
• will (offer)
• would (polite requests)

Recommended Bibliography

Textbooks:- L. Clyde, L. Dodgson, D. Harwood, FIRST buster: Preparation course for the CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: FIRST (FCE) FOR SCHOOLS – STUDENT’S BOOK - ED. ELI
Murphy,R. English Grammar in Use Cambridge: CUP 2004
English for architecture, C. Cawthra

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons, practice activities

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Exam with final mark

Contacts/More Information

office hours: after class hours

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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