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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Lingua Inglesa 4 |
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| Identifying Data | 2014/15 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Lingua Inglesa 4 | Code | 613G03019 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| -WRITING: How to write both an argumentative and a research paper in MLA style |
What is the MLA style of writing? Style and register; formal and informal language; connotation and denotation; post-structuralism and the binary opposition; punctuation; the paragraph; connecting words and expressions; the essay (e.g. argumentative and research types); title; introduction; thesis statement (as different from topic); body; conclusion; (web and printed) sources of information; the list of works cited; in-text quotations; plagiarism; footnotes and endnotes |
| -READING: How to to a reading comprehension | What is critical thinking? Different levels of understanding of a text; grammar; vocabulary; structure; rhetorical figures; story and plot; themes; characterization; inference; deduction; analysis; scope; meanings and interpretation; conclusion making; etc. |
| -SPEAKING: How to speak in public; how to do an oral presentation; how to debate; how to behave in a job interview |
Types of speeches; tips to fight stage fright; the use of pauses, intonation, and rhythm in speech; body language; cohesion and coherence; to convince and to persuade; etc. Class debates will be related to relevant topics as: art and literature, sexism, video games, body-appearance obsession, capitalism, homosexuality, etc. If there is time, I will accept student suggestions on other topics. |
| -GRAMMAR: Review and consolidation of important grammatical structures | Conditional sentences; the passive voice; past with present and/or future meanings; modal verbs; phrasal verbs; special noun-verb agreement; etc. |
| -LISTENING: Grammar-related and job-interview audiovisual recordings | The listening exercises will be related to the grammar seen in class. The students will also listen to many job interviews to practice for their listening and oral exams |
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