INDEPENDENT USER B1

Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.  Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Grammar Syllabus

First Semester

Present continuous

Present simple

Past simple

Past continuous

Present perfect

Present perfect continuous

Past perfect

Past perfect continuous

Present tenses for the future

Going to

Will/shall

Future continuous

Future perfect

Modals

Prepositions of time, place and movement

The comparative and the superlative

Second Semester

Zero, first, second and third conditionals

The Passive

Reported speech

Question tags

Verb + ing

Verb + to

Countable and uncountable nouns

A/an and the

Reflexive pronouns

Relative clauses

Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed

Order of the adjectives

The most common phrasal verbs

First Semester Reading Comprehension

The course will focus on a variety of reading texts taken from B1 level sources.

Second Semester Reading Comprehension

The course will focus on a variety of reading texts taken from B1 and B2 level sources.

English Vocabulary in Use (Pre-intermediate and intermediate)

First and Second Semester Writing

Four main types of writing will be taught and practiced.

Expository, descriptive, persuasive and narrative writing.

Writing topics include – My home town-University- Travel- Money- Music- Books- The media -Special occasions- Health and fitness- Dreams- Rules and regulations- Recent and past experience- Stories- Famous people-The Internet-Inventions.

First Semester Listening and Speaking

Listening skills will be taught and practiced by using listening material from various sources at B1 level.

The programme includes the following films:

Bend it like Beckham. Directed by Gurinder Chadha- 2002

Billy Elliot. Directed by Stephen Daldry- 2000

The historical and cultural background, vocabulary and idiomatic phrases from the films will be studied.

 All communication is carried out in English and students will be required to take part in discussions, presentations and role play exercises.

Second Semester Listening and Speaking

Listening skills will be taught and practiced by using listening material from various sources at B1 and B2 level.

The programme includes the following films:

Sliding Doors. Directed by Peter Howitt - 1998

The Internship. Directed by Shawn Levy – 2013

The historical and cultural background, vocabulary and idiomatic phrases from the films will be studied.

 All communication is carried out in English and students will be required to take part in discussions, presentations and role play exercises.

The teaching material prepared by the language assistant in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the language assistant specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Course books

-Raymond Murphy (2019). English Grammar in Use. Fifth Edition with answers. Cambridge: CUP 
-Redman Stuart. (2017). English Vocabulary in Use (Pre-intermediate and intermediate) Fourth Edition with answers. Cambridge: CUP