ENGLISH LANGUAGE M - Z

This course aims at consolidating the acquisition of structures and skills at the B1/B2 level of CEFRL. It is also meant to provide the students with effective tools in order to develop competent language usage and to communicate with greater confidence in a business environment, in real-life work situations or socially.

Il programma è articolato in base ad una scansione temporale degli argomenti trattati. Per il superamento dell’esame vengono valutate le conoscenze di base degli argomenti in programma.

Unit1

GRAMMAR:

State and action verbs; Present simple and present continuous; Questions and subject/object questions

VOCABULARY

Greetings; English for specific purposes; Collocations for describing places; Look

READING TEXTS

Unit2

GRAMMAR:

Past simple and past continuous; Past simple and past perfect; Modifiers; Used to & would

VOCABULARY

-ing and -ed adjectives; Relationships; Extreme adjectives; Prepositions; Ways of talking about meaning

READING TEXTS

Unit3

GRAMMAR:

Future forms: plans and intentions; Will and be going to for predictions; So & such; Real conditionals

VOCABULARY

Materials; Energy; Words that go with problem; Cold(metaphor); Words to describe statistics

READING TEXTS

Unit4

GRAMMAR:

Present perfect and past simple; Present perfect with yet and already; Modals of deduction; Somebody, anybody, nobody, everybody

VOCABULARY

Adjective suffixes: -ive, -ful, -ous; Expressions with what

READING TEXTS

Unit5

GRAMMAR:

Modals of obligation and permission; Past modals of obligation; for and since

VOCABULARY

-ics and -ology, Education compound nouns, control; Giving advice and warnings

READING TEXTS

Unit6

GRAMMAR:

Passive voice; Articles

VOCABULARY

Take; Indeed and at all

READING TEXTS

Unit7

GRAMMAR:

Countable and uncountable nouns

VOCABULARY

Abstract nouns

READING TEXTS

Unit8

GRAMMAR:

Would; Second conditional; Third conditional; Past modals of deduction

VOCABULARY

Expressions with make and do

READING TEXTS

Unit9

GRAMMAR:

Verbs followed by –ing and infinitive with to; Comparatives and superlatives; Verbs followed by prepositions

Lindsay Clandfield & Rebecca Robb Benne, Global intermediate + EWorkbook, codice 9780230033030