Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Lingua Inglesa 4 |
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Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Lingua Inglesa 4 | Code | 613G02019 | |||||||||||
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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 such as art, capitalism, discrimination, education, emigration, media and sexuality among others. |
-GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Review and consolidation of word formation and use of vocabulary, as well as important grammatical structures. |
Formal and academic language, word formation, conditional sentences, modal verbs, phrasal verbs, noun-verb agreement, article the, 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 audio-oral exams |
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