Foreign Language 2017/2018

COURSE CONTENTS:

• word order
• question and negative formation
• articles
• contrasting tenses
• verb patterns
• modals
• rephrasing
• word and sentence stress
• formal email writing

A detailed description of the aims and contents of each lesson will be published at the end of every week. 

MATERIALS:

All materials will be provided during the lessons. 

EXAM:

Written exam (60 minutes) on the topics dealt during the lessons. Further details on the exam structure will be given during the course. 

LESSON 1 - 28/09/2017

• Auxiliary verbs and tenses
• question formation
• negatives

LESSON 2 - 05/10/2017

• meaning, use and form of definite and indefinite articles
• sentence rephrasing

LESSON 3 - 12/10/2017

• Present Perfect Simple and Continuous 

LESSON 4 - 19/10/2017

• Adjective order
• Adjectives as nouns (The + adjective)
• Sentence rephrasing 
• English spelling - homophones  

LESSON 5 - 26/10/2017

• Narrative tenses: past simple and continuous, past perfect simple and continuous
• Tense revision: past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous
• Question formation (revision)
• Vocabulary practice - phrasal verbs and nouns to talk about travelling

LESSON 6 - 02/11/2017

• Speaking practice: describing and reording a story
• Adverbs and adverbial phrases
• Meaning of adverbs (adverbs of time and place, manner, degree, comment)
• Position of adverbs and adverbial phrases

LESSON 7 - 09/11/2017

• formal and informal email writing
• structure and contents of formal emails
• Writing of a formal email to a professor

LESSON 8 - 16/11/2017

• future perfect and future continuous 

LESSON 9 - 23/11/2017

• zero and first conditionals
• future time clauses

LESSON 10 - 30/12/2017

• zero and first conditionals (revision)
• second and third conditionals

LESSON 11 - 07/12/2017

• structures after 'wish'
• vocabulary: adjectives and other phrases to express feelings 

LESSON 12 - 14/12/2017

• informal mid-course assessment
• exam guidelines: dates, how to register, exam format

LESSON 13 - 21/12/2017

• revision 

LESSON 14 - 11/01/2018

• verb patterns: verb followed by -ing, to infinitive and infinitive without to

LESSON 15 - 18/01/2018

• adverbs and adverbial expressions - differences in meaning
• vocabulary: verbs often confused
• speaking practice