ENGLISH LANGUAGE A - L

The main objective of the course is to help students develop language skills at B1 Level of the Common European Framework of References (CEFR) put together by the Council of Europe.

Expected learning outcomes defined by the Dublin Descriptors are the following:

• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will develop lexical, morphological and syntactic language skills aimed to understand and interpret scientific texts and articles in their specific subject area. All texts will be analysed in terms of their linguistic, register and cultural features and will allow the students to familiarize with this specific field of study.
• Applying Knowledge and Understanding: The course will focus on the specific vocabulary of this ESP by presenting several examples of authentic texts, and it will prompt students to use a pragmatic approach to specific vocabulary.
• Learning Skills: Students will gain an understanding of several learning strategies in order to meet their individual needs.
• Making Judgements: Students will be elicited to give their own opinions and comment on the articles by using specific language items.
• Communication skills. The ability to communicate ideas effectively will be encouraged through different forms of oral presentation.

The course takes up 21 teaching hours based on practice and interaction. The language will be studied in authentic contexts, in order to make the learners familiarize with the vocabulary in their specific field. Individual and group activities will be designed to improve the students' abilities and to learn the language in a meaningful context.

Language Focus:

Present Simple tense; Have/Has got; Idiomatic uses of to have (to have lunch, dinner, breakfast, a shower, a walk, fun, etc.); Present Continuous tense; Possessives; Common prepositions; Adjectives ending in –ed or -ing; Past Simple; Past continuous; Past Perfect; Present Perfect (with still/yet; ever/never; for/since); Present Perfect Continuous; Quantifiers; Comparative and superlative adjectives; Future forms; Conditionals; Phrasal verbs; Common collocations.

- Sala, Angelo – De Giuli, Ester, English for Pharmacy, Hoepli, 2010

- Mark Foley - Diane Hall, My Grammar Lab (Intermediate B1/B2), with Key and MyLab Pack, last edition.