English intro intensive feb 2016

English intensiveFebruary-March 2016

Towards the end of poverty

IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world is living in condition approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of that people.” It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there number felt by half as a shares of the total population in developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1 billion people.

Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...

The Economist – 1st June 2013

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http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-taken-out-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aim


IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world is living in conditionapproaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of that people.” It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, therenumber felt by half as a shares of the total population in developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1 billion people.

Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...


find 20 errors



IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world are living in conditions approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of those people.” It has taken much longer than Truman hoped, but the world has lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, their number fell by half as a share of the total population in developing countries, from 43% to 21%—a reduction of almost 1 billion people.

Now the world has a serious chance to redeem Truman’s pledge to lift the least fortunate. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsist below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a day...



English intensiveFebruary-March 2016

your approach

60,924,000

60,924,000

population of Italy

2,014,000

2,014,000students in higher

education

3.3%

% of uni students

in Italy

3.3%

this number

means you are

special

in these lessons

I expect your approach

to show this

in other words

please bring your intelligence

and commitment to class

about learning English

intermediate is different

it’s difficult to make progress

don’t drift!

‘drift’

Can you describe

this graph?

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 past

the intermediate plateau

?

about this course

grammar

grammar

we decide the grammar syllabus

together

some ideas…

in class

in class

‘show and tell’

every lesson

‘show and tell’

choose an object that has a

special importance for you

‘show and tell’

you will tell the class

about this object

‘show and tell’

you will have

just 5 minutes

‘show and tell’

tell the story of how the object

came into your life

‘show and tell’

say why

it’s special for you now

‘show and tell’

Wednesday 03-Feb

Thursday 04-Feb

Monday 08-Feb Show & Tell S1 S2

Wednesday 10-Feb

Thursday 11-Feb Show & Tell S3 S4


Wednesday 17-Feb



Wednesday 24-Feb


Monday 29-Feb Class Presentations?

Wednesday 02-Mar

Thursday 03-Mar Class Presentations

‘show and tell’

how to prepare for your

‘show and tell’

‘show and tell’

research special vocab

‘show and tell’

research special vocab

including pronunciation!

‘show and tell’

practice speaking aloud

‘show and tell’

practice speaking aloud

to find problem language

and resolve it

on the forum

1. lesson summaries

2. grammar homework

English Grammar in UseUnits 15-16-----------I’ve done the exercises. It took me 20 minutes.I understood everything except 2.4 – why is “….” not right?

example post

3. your space!

The forum is your space.

Use it to post anything you find,

interesting, curious or useful.

You can ask for help and you

can propose problems for

discussion.

Remember that you can learn a

lot from your classmates

- read their writing homework

- try to answer their questions

resources for this course

resources: I

CLACSON

Moodle@CLA

http://clacson2.uniroma3.it

your login

for:

Portale

Studente

Roma Tre

or, if you

are a PhD

student…

Username =Clacson code

Password=surname

(lowercase)

e.g.

Username = 07654321

Password= di nicola

NB

If you can’t log in,

you must inform me

NB

If you can’t log in,

you must inform me

immediately

English Grammar in Use

Buy, beg, borrow

or steal a copy of

EGU

Buy, beg, borrow

or steal a copy of

EGU

OK not

‘steal’

3rd or 4th editions

are best, but you

can use the 2nd

edition

there are also

versions for iOS

and Android

Use EGU for

grammar

homework

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/

if you have any problems about

anything related to this course

write to me on

Moodle@CLA

or at

[email protected]

www.davidnicholson.it

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