Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Free election credit |
English Language 3 |
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Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Language 3 | Code | 613G01015 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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(The subjects were chosen with the aim of preparing the student to face a good number of real communicative situations. See Step 8 on Sources of Information for the textbook from which the following topics are taken) 1. Where we live Grammar: emphasis with inversion, verbal tenses (present and perfect past, present and simple and continuous past) Practical Functions: to describe, inform. Audition: aural skills about the city and its people, to level C1. Written Composition: reports. Vocabulary: The lexicon related with the city and its people, to level C1. |
a. More than just streetwise. b. A Fairytale Castle. c. My Place |
2. The art of conversation. Grammar: relative clauses (defining and non-defining); Practical functions: offering advice and asking for information. Audition: Aural skills about facial expressions and at C1 level. Written composition: proposals. Vocabulary: vocabulary about introducing oneself and conversation at C1 level. | a. How to have a conversation. b. Texting champion. c. Communication and the Internet. |
3. Ages and stages. Vocabulary: Vocabulary concerned with education at C1 level. (count and non-count nouns) Grammar: passive voice, collocations and phrases with “wish”. Practice in oral English: discussion about advertising; Style and register: Language appropriate for each task; register and style transfer. | a. What diaries can and cannot do for you. b. Blue Zones. c. The Key to Longevity. |
4. No gain without pain. Grammar: “-ing” and infinitive, doubling of consonants in “-ed” and “-ing” forms. Written composition: descriptions, arguments. Phonology: Intonation and stress at required level. Doubling of consonants after vowels depending on their pronunciation. Oral practice: debating and discussing about motivation. |
a. The Museum of Failed Products. b. Why Pefectionism isn't Perfect. |
5. The feel-good factor. Grammar: conditionals and hypothesis; conditionals: advanced features; “wish”, “would rather / sooner”, “it’s time”. Practical functions: descriptions; Vocabulary: Lexical items related to happiness atl C1 level. |
a. The Price of Happiness. b. Films that make you feel good. c. The Happiness App. d. Work and Happiness. |
6. Living with the past. Grammar: comparisons (by far, far more, far less, etc); adverbs, adverb phrases and conjunctions. Written composition: reviews of television series. |
a. Dead Interesting. b. My hoarder mum and me. c. A Mammoth Find. d. Looking Back. |
7. The hard sell. Grammar: conditionals and hypothesis (advanced features). Audition: Aural skills concerning sales techniques at C1 level. Style and register: Correct language to perform each task; transfer of register and style (narratives and advertising). |
a. A Product by any other name might not taste so sweet. b. Selling the Fifth Taste. c. Using Scents in Marketing. |
8. Passing through. Oral English practice: Travelling and volunteer work. Grammar: “modal verbs”. Written composition: brochures. Exercises: transformations. Phonology: Intonation and stress at level required. Vocabulary: Vocabulary related with travel at C1 level. |
a. Travelling for a living; b. Volunteering for work abroad. c. Expats in New York. d. Souvenir Hunting. e. Travel Guidebooks. |
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