| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Lingua Inglesa e os seus Usos 1 |
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| Identifying Data | 2013/14 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Lingua Inglesa e os seus Usos 1 | Code | 613G03020 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Introductory aspects of learning vocabulary in a context. (See text books in Section 8 "Sources of Information"). | Learning strategies; types of meaning; dictionary use (different types); collocation; metaphor; register; connotations and cultural associations. |
| 2. Word formation | Abbreviations and acronyms; prefixes; suffixes; word-building; language enrichment through contact; similar but different words. |
| 3. Vocabulary related to work and study | Fields: Colleagues, routines, careers, promotion, business; academic work; education |
| 4. Vocabulary about people and relationships | Fields: Positive and negative aspects; problems; feelings; appearance and character; brith and death. |
| 5. Vocabulary related to leisure and lifestyle. | Fields: performance and plastic arts; literature; food; travel and tourism |
| 6. Vocabulary related to the environment | Fields: Landscapes, climate; metaphors; vegetation; animals; conservation |
| 7. Vocabulary related to society and institutions | Fields: Police, the law; politics; history; poveerty; war and peace; economics; languages; festivals. |
| 8. Vocabulary related to the media |
Fields: newspapers; Internet; adverts; news. |
| 9. Functional vocabulary | Permission and prohibition; complaints; apologies; compliments; promises; reminiscences; agreeement and disagreeement; academic writing; style and format; vague language expressions. |
| 10. Idioms and phrasal verbs (verb+ preposition/particle) | Strategies for understanding and learning these elements. |
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