English intro intensive Feb-March 2014

English intensive5 February–6 March 201417 lessons; 34 hours


of which 11 lessons

and

22 hours with me

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

find 20 errors

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

Towards the end of poverty

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...The Economist – 1st June 2013

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

your approach

60,851,000

60,851,000

population of Italy

2,014,000

2,014,000students in higher

education

3.31%

% of uni students in Italy

3.31%

this number means you are

special

in these lessonsI 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’

?

progress

time

progress

time

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 pastthe intermediate plateau

?

about this course

components:

grammar

grammarwe decide the grammar syllabus

together

some ideas…

grammar verbs vs. main verbswould have donepresent perfectfuture tensesmodal verbsword order

something else

pronunciation

pronunciation

every Monday

pronunciationthe English phonetic system

is different

video comprehension

video comprehension

every Thursday

in class

in class‘show and tell’every lesson

in classgroup presentationsinstead of final exam

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

examples of how you can get English practice

watch a film in EnglishTED

iTunes UBBC or other reading on the internet

reading a research paper for your subjecttalking to Anglophone tourists in the pub

3. anything you find interesting

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

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

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

resources: I

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)

intermediate 4th edition with answers

(CD-ROM optional)

NB don’t buy

the iOS

version: it

isn’t the same

resources: II

CLACSON

Moodle@CLA

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

no capitals

no spaces

no accents

resources: III

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

http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/o#.UbBFkha0LzI

resources: V

video and audio 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

some good places to read:

BBC – www.bbc.co.ukThe Economist – www.economist.comWired – www.wired.comThe New Yorker – www.newyorker.comand alsoMy paper.li – paper.li/f-1337027006

if you have any problems

if you have any problems about anything related to this course

write to me onMoodle@CLA

or [email protected]

www.davidnicholson.it

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