ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Paolo Giuseppe Caruso
Credit Value: 1
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

Scientific texts will be given to develop your English understanding via geological content cases to develop your practical counseling skills and give you a critical point of view numerous vocabulary exercises to expand your English glossary (word formation, antonyms, synonyms, filling the gaps) strategies for effective learning ( interactive exercises, presentations, visual vocabulary sections etc) listening (audio) exercises grammar exercises in practical and geological context.


Detailed Course Content

Significant reinforcement of the main language structures : Countable and uncountable nouns; Connecting words; Word building; -Ed and -Ing adjectives; Verb-noun collocations; Verbs and prepositions; Comparatives and superlatives; Quantifiers; Possessive Pronouns; Irregular verbs; Present simple; Past Simple; Past continuous; Present simple Vs continuous; Present perfect for life experiences; Present continuous for future arrangements; Future with going to; Future with will and shall; First and second conditional; basic Phrasal verbs; Passive forms (present and past simple); Modals.


Textbook Information

THE PROFESSOR WILL SUPPLY PHOTOCOPIES, SLIDES, POWER POINTS ETC. TO HIS STUDENTS.