English B1 intensive4 June – 19 July 201214 lessons; 28 hours

about me

I was born here

I grew up here

I went to university

here

I’ve lived in Rome for 19 years.

And I’ve taught English to a lot of people!

about you

60,851,000

60,851,000

population of Italy

2,014,000

2,014,000students in higher

education

3.31%

3.31%

% of uni students in Italy

3.31%

this number means you are

the elite

in these lessonsI expect your approach

to show this

in other words

please bring your intelligence and commitment to class

DISCUSSION

What do you want from this course?

about learning English

intermediate is different

it’s difficult to make progress

don’t drift!

progress

time

the intermediate plateau

English as object of study

English as means of communication

vocab:1,000-3,000words

vocab:15,000+words

grammar:past, present, future

grammaras asystem

foreign language as alien

foreign language as culture

what can you do to get pastthe intermediate plateau

?

about this course

components:

grammar

grammarwe’ll focus on the areas that give problems at this level

future tenses

present perfect

auxiliaryvs.

main verbs

how to translate“avrei fatto”

anything you want to propose

de-Italianisation

de-Italianisationmaking your English

more English

word order

collocation

pronunciationthe sounds of English

and the phonetic system

21 vowels and diphthongs

word stress

sentence stress

weak and strong

the phonetic system

the phonetic system

and how pronunciation and grammar work together

comprehension

comprehensiononce a week a video

comprehension exercise

pronunciation and comprehension lessons

will alternate

classwork

classworkopportunities for you

to speak English

in groups of 3-5

individual presentations

homework

homeworkat least equal to the time you

spend in class

homeworkat least

4 hours a week

homeworkat least

4 hours a week

grammar homeworkfrom English Grammar in Use

writing homeworkon CLACSON forum

comprehension homeworkkeep a diary

on CLACSON forum

e.g.

Pinko Pallino’s English Practice diary

TED – Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_baggini_is_there_a_real_you.htmlType: Video of presentationWhen: Monday 4 JuneHow long: 20 minutesHow difficult: 4/5Recommendation: 3/5Comments: I thought that …

BBC Learning English – How to politely refusehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/englishatwork/2012/05/120529_english_at_work_16_story.shtmlType: Listening

resources for this course

all the links on the following pages can be found at:

https://pinboard.in/u:davidatrome/t:Roma3/

resources: I

where to get your practice

iTunes U

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u

TED(Technology, Entertainment, Design)

www.ted.com

The BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

my Paper.li

http://paper.li/f-1337027006#

resources: II

dictionaries

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD)

www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com

Bi-lingual dictionaries

don’t use them!

Bi-lingual dictionaries

but if you must…

WordReference

http://www.wordreference.com/

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

www.lixiaolai.com/ocd/index.html

resources: III

phonetics

UCL phonetic games

word to vowel symbol

symbol to words

sound to spelling/symbol

my phonetic symbols page

http://www.davidnicholson.it/tools_n_terms/ipa_symbols_basic.html

resources: IV

grammar book

buy, beg, borrow or steal …

English Grammar in Use

buy, beg, borrow or steal …

English Grammar in Use

OK not ‘steal’

intermediate 4th edition with answers

(CD-ROM optional)

NB this is a

new slide –

there is a 4th

edition!

CLACSON

CLACSON

http://webdev3.caspur.it/cla/

Username:CLA number

Password:surname

if you have any problems

about anything related to this course

you can write to me on CLACSON

or at

david@davidnicholson

www.davidnicholson.it