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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Lingua Inglesa 3 |
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| Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Lingua Inglesa 3 | Code | 613G03015 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 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: describe, inform. Audition: aural skills about the city and its people, to level C1 / FALLS. Written Composition: reports. Vocabulary: The lexicon related with the city and its people, to level C1/ CAE. |
a. a. So who needs people? b. Madrid, my home sweet home. |
| 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 CAE level. | a. Two million followers? b. Facial expressions. |
| 3. Ages and stages. Vocabulary: Vocabulary concerned with education at C1/CAE 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. Learning how children think. b. I wish I’d known that before. |
| 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. A motivating business b. Secret to success. |
| 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/ CAE level. |
a. Happiness: It’s a state of mind; b. Films that make you feel good. |
| 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. Searching for a king; b. My hoarder mum and me. |
| 7. The hard sell. Grammar: conditionals and hypothesis (advanced features). Audition: Aural skills concerning sales techniques at C1 / CAE level. Style and register: Correct language to perform each task; transfer of register and style (narratives and advertising). |
a. It’s all about technique; b. Windows of opportunity. |
| 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/ CAE level. |
a. Travelling for a living; b. Volunteering for work abroad. |
| 9. Reading the mind. Grammar: Collocations and phrases with “like, “alike”, “so” and “such”, causative “have”, etc Audition: Aural skills about psychology at C1 / CAE level. Writtten composition: articles. |
a. Why can’t we tickle ourselves?; b. How the Internet is altering your mind. |
| 10. Things to come. Grammar: Future forms. Audition: Aural skills to talk about the future at C1 / CAE level. Oral practice: the future. Vocabulary: Vocabulary related with the future, at C1/ CAE level. |
a. The musical future; b. We’ve seen it all before. |
| 11. A perfect match. Grammar: Advanced work on articles and prepositions; written compositions: formal letters. Phonology: Intonation and stress at required level. Oral practice: buying, complaining, etc. |
a. A working life; b. Does your personality really fit? |
| 12. Soundtracks. Grammar: Future in the past; advanced futures, “phrasal verbs”; “cleft sentences”. Style and register: apprpriate language to perform each task; register and style transfer. Audition: Aural skills concerning the subject of music, at C1 / CAE level. | a. How we taste different colours; b. Music and sound. |
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