Corso di lingua inglese online B1 - personale T.A. UNIMORE
Il corso
Il corso è realizzato dal Centro Linguistico di Ateneo dell'Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Il supporto tecnico è fornito dal Centro Interateneo EDUNOVA - UNIMORE.
Direzione scientifica del corso
Centro Linguistico di Ateneo
Il corso di inglese online è rivolto al personale tecnico-amministrativo dell'Ateneo.
Course Format
Il percorso didattico online contiene unità tematiche costituite da:
Syllabus
| SPELLING: EXPLANATIONS |
| PUNCTUATION: EXPLANATIONS |
| SKILLS STRATEGIES: EXPLANATIONS |
| GRAMMAR GLOSSARY |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills adverbs of frequency present simple and present continuous verbs not used in the continuous form clothes and accessories communications and technology listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| PRESENT TENSES: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| frequency adverbs |
| present simple vs present continuous |
| Boo to a sloth |
| Meet Rex, The World's First Bionic Man |
| clothes and accessories |
| clothes and accessories |
| Diary entries, e-mails and formal letters |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills expressing the future with present simple and continuous future continuous future perfect education environment listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| FUTURE 1: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| expressing the future with present continuous |
| future perfect |
| Street food of Xian |
| 11-year-old Florida boy's redesigned sandbag could help |
| education |
| education |
| environment |
| e-mails and informal letters |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills will, shall, going to and their functions future timetable entertainment and media food and drink listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| FUTURE 2: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| will, shall, going to and their functions |
| future timetable |
| Dublin city guide |
| 72-million-year-old dinosaur tail unearthed in Mexican Desert |
| entertainment and media |
| entertainment and media |
| food and drink |
| food and drink |
| e-mails |
Units 1-3 progress test (77 points in total). The test is made of: 1 page with grammar exercises (41 points) 1 page with a listening comprehension (15 points) 1 page with a reading comprehension (21 points) You should go on with the following units if you reach a minimum of 46 points in the test (i.e. 60% of the total). You can try the test a maximum of 3 times.
| units 1-3 progress test |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills present perfect continuous present perfect: simple or continuous? past perfect simple (be/get) used to would health, medicine and exercise listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| present perfect continuous |
| present perfect: simple or continuous? |
| PAST PERFECT SIMPLE: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| past perfect simple |
| past perfect simple or past continuous? |
| (BE / GET) USED TO AND WOULD: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| (be / get) used to + would |
| Art in context: Jennifer Kowitt on "Bifrons Park, Kent" |
| Pacific barreleye: fish with a see-through head |
| health, medicine and exercise |
| health, medicine and exercise |
| e-mails and diary entries |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills compound nouns possession (genitive 's and s', double genitive) prepositions of time prepositions of place and position hobbies and leisure listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| EXPRESSING POSSESSION: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| possession |
| PREPOSITIONS OF TIME, PLACE AND POSITION: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| prepositions |
| Lightning |
| Restoration reveals colorful secret of Rome's Colosseum |
| Phonebloks_new |
| hobbies and leisure |
| hobbies and leisure |
| fill-in the forms, e-mails and informal letters |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills verbs followed by preposition verb + -ing or + infinitive house and home listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| VERB PATTERNS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| verb patterns |
| Martin Karplus discusses winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Singing volcanoes |
| house and home |
| house and home |
| e-mails and fill in the forms |
Units 4-6 progress test (64 points in total). The test is made of: 1 page with grammar exercises (26 points) 1 page with a listening comprehension (22 points) 2 pages with reading comprehensions (16 points) You should go on with the following units if you reach a minimum of 38 points in the test (i.e. 60% of the total). You can try the test a maximum of 3 times.
| units 4-6 progress test |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills tag questions let's one / ones another / the other (one) some / every / any / no reflexives personal feelings, opinions and experiences listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| QUESTIONS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| questions |
| PRONOUNS AND QUANTIFIERS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| pronouns and quantifiers |
| Day in the life: three Cambridge students |
| There's a new planet in sight (Catherine Clarke Fox) |
| personal feelings, opinions and experiences |
| personal feelings, opinions and experiences |
| informal letters |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills present and past places: buildings, countryside, town and city listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| MODALS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| modals |
| Titanic musem opens where ship was built |
| Trials riding |
| places: buildings, countryside, town and city |
| places |
| e-mails and formal letters |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills (adjectives and adverbs) order of (adjectives and adverbs) intensifiers irregular adverbs (conditionals) 0 and 1st type shopping listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| adjectives and adverbs |
| CONDITIONALS 1: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| 0 and 1st type conditionals |
| Barefoot on the Fells: walking through Cumbria with a shepherdess |
| What's for dinner? Did early humans eat Neandertals? |
| shopping |
| shopping |
| e-mails and diary entries |
Units 7-9 progress test (end of the course) (73 points in total). The test is made of: 1 page with grammar exercises (35 points) 3 pages with listening comprehensions (18 points) 1 page with a reading comprehension (20 points) You will pass the test if you reach a minimum of 44 points in the test (i.e. 60% of the total). You can try the test a maximum of 3 times.
| units 7-9 progress test |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills with and without tense change differences with tell, say and speak statements, commands and requests wh- questions indirect questions reporting verbs sport listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| REPORTED SPEECH: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| reported speech_new |
| RSA shorts: espresso for the mind. Growth is not enough. |
| Who invented the Braille System? |
| sport |
| sport |
| e-mails and letters |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills (conditionals) 2nd type most common phrasal verbs the natural world listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| CONDITIONALS 2: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| 2nd type conditionals |
| PHRASAL VERBS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| phrasal verbs |
| Dawn of social networks: hunter-gatherers provide clues about the evolution of cooperation |
| Why we need and fear mercury, the liquid metal? |
| the natural world |
| the natural world |
| informal letters and messages |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills defining and non-defining subject and object no relative pronoun non-finite nominal language listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| RELATIVE CLAUSES: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| relative clauses |
| Wising up about wisdom teeth |
| language |
| e-mails and letters |
Units 10-12 progress test (77 points in total). The test is made of: 1 page with grammar exercises (35 points) 3 pages with listening comprehensions (23 points) 1 page with a reading comprehension (19 points) You should go on with the following units if you reach a minimum of 46 points in the test (i.e. 60% of the total). You can try the test a maximum of 3 times.
| units 10-12 progress test |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills with and without by (the agent) with with (the instrument) have something done verbs with more than one object travel and transport listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| PASSIVES: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| passives |
| A soldier's food - WW1 uncut: Dan Snow - BBC |
| Tiny-atops |
| travel and transport |
| travel and transport |
| diary entries, letters and messages |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills about the present and the past hope, if only, could weather listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| WISHES: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| wishes |
| How we learn to laugh - Professor Sophie Scott, University College London |
| How prehistoric trees became Arizona's Petrified National Forest? |
| weather |
| weather |
| e-mails and messages |
grammar and functions vocabulary skills adding, listing purpose contrast reason and result work and jobs listening for main ideas and specific information reading for main ideas and specific information
| CONNECTORS AND TEXT ORGANIZERS: GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS |
| connectors and text organizers |
| Playing Shakespeare: interview with Laura, costume supervisor |
| Vegetarianism going green |
| work and jobs |
| work and jobs |
| e-mails, job applications forms and memos |
Units 13-15 progress test (end of the course) (74 points in total). The test is made of: 1 page with grammar exercises (34 points) 3 pages with listening comprehensions (21 points) 2 pages with reading comprehensions (22 points) You will pass the test if you reach a minimum of 44 points in the test (i.e. 60% of the total). You can try the test a maximum of 3 times.
| units 13-15 progress test |