Academic Year/course:
2018/19
27966 - Second Language I(English)
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2018/19
Subject:
27966 - Second Language I(English)
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
426 - Degree in Classics
579 - Degree in Classics
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Basic Education
Module:
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4.1. Methodological overview
The methodology followed in this course is oriented towards the achievement of the learning objectives. A wide range of teaching and learning tasks are implemented, such as lectures, practice sessions, autonomous work, study and assessment tasks.
Students are expected to participate actively in class throughout the semester.
Further information regarding the course will be provided on the first day of class.
4.2. Learning tasks
The course includes the following learning tasks:
- Lectures.
- Practice sessions.
- Autonomous work and study.
- Assessment tasks.
4.3. Syllabus
The course will address the following topics:
- Topic 1.
- A. Mood Food: Food and cooking; present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs; short and long vowel sounds.
- B. Family Life: Family, adjectives of personality; future forms: present continuous, going to, will/won’t; sentence stress, word stress.
- Topic 2.
- A. Spend or save? : Money; Present perfect and past simple.
- B. Changing Lives: strong adjectives (exhausted, amazed); sentence stress, stress on strong adjectives.
- Topic 3.
- A. Race across London: Transport; comparative and superlatives.
- B. Stereotypes; Collocation: verbs/ adjectives + prepositions; articles: a/an, the, no article.
- Topic 4.
- A. Failure or Success; -ed/-ing adjectives; can, could, be able to; reflexive pronouns.
- B. Modern manners: Phone language; modals of obligation: must, have to, should.