Teaching Guide 2017/18 Faculty of Philology

Teaching GuideTerm

Faculty of Philology

Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios

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English Language 4

Contents

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Identifying Data

2017/18

Subject

English Language 4

Code

613G01019

Study programme

Grao en Español: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios

Descriptors

Cycle

Period

Year

Type

Credits

Graduate

2nd four-month period

Second

Obligatoria

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. Lexical contents: vocabulary expansion, with special attention to idiomatic and fixed expressions. Themes: cultural diversity; human rights; environment; plastic and scenic arts; cinema, music and literature; sports and health.
-GRAMMAR: Review and consolidation of important grammatical structures.	Grammatical content: 1. Review and consolidation of the different categories: verbs (modal verbs, multi-word verbs, etc.); nouns, pronouns, articles and determinants; adjectives and adverbs; prepositions and conjunctions. 2. Grammatical structures: passive voice; indirect style; conditional sentences; relative structures; adverbial subordinates; 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 and practice for the audio-oral test.

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