ENGLISH LANGUAGE B2 (QUALIFYING EXAMINATION)
IDONEITÀ LINGUA INGLESE B2
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2022/2023 | 2 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Giuliana Gardellini | At the end of each lecture, or by making an appointment via email. |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course is aimed at consolidating students' knowledge of English grammar and their reading comprehension techniques, in order to help them get ready for Idoneità B2.
Program
1) Revision of the main grammatical structures:
Present Simple vs Continuous;
Action vs Non-Action verbs;
Past Simple;
Used to / would;
Past Continuous;
Present Perfect (Simple and Continuous).
2) Practice for Reading Comprehension B2:
"Walking with Dinosaurs";
"The Robots Are Coming - or Are They ?";
"Endangered Languages";
"Our Vanishing Night";
"Is There a Psychologist in the Building ?".
3) Advice on how to synthesize and present a text to the oral exam.
Bridging Courses
None.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: by the end of the course, students will have acquired sufficient knowledge of B2 English grammar and lexis and will be able to understand complex, contemporary texts, both on abstract and concrete topics, also in the domain of educational sciences.
Applying knowledge and understanding: by the end of the course, students will have acquired the ability to communicate relatively fluently and spontaneously in English.
Making judgements: by the end of the course, students will have acquired the ability to express their opinion on both current affairs and educational topics, by highlighting the different issues involved and arguing their stance in English.
Communication skills: by the end of the course, students will have acquired the ability to communicate with a sufficient degree of spontaneity and fluency to interact effectively both with native and non-native speakers.
Learning skills: by the end of the course, students will have acquired good awareness of their language competence, in addition to a sufficient ability to deepen and expand it.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Starting from Monday, February 20th, 4.00 to 6.00 p.m., a 23-hour, B1+ workshop will be available both to fourth and fifth year students. It will be led by Dr. Patricia Barzotti. Students are warmly invited to attend.
In addition to this, students are advised to get in touch with CLA (Centro Linguistico di Ateneo) to join their free, General English courses at all levels.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lessons will be partly traditional (lectures) and partly interactive. Multimedia tools will be used.
- Attendance
Students' English will need to be around level B2 CEFR or higher. Students are warmly invited to attend CLA free English courses, which are offered at all levels.
Students will need to study all the materials discussed in class, in addition to the listed grammatical topics, by making reference to the suggested grammar text and to the materials on blended.
Attendance to lectures is warmly encouraged.
Attendance to English labs is mandatory.
- Course books
Angela Gallagher and Fausto Galuzzi, The Complete Mastering Grammar. La grammatica completa dal livello A1 al livello C1, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
- Assessment
The exam (prova di idoneità) is composed of a written part and an oral part.
The written part includes a Reading Comprehension and some grammar and vocabulary exercises around B2 level. This part is supervised by Dr. Nadia Stevenson at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo (CLA). See the CLA webpage https://cla.uniurb.it/?page=Pil-DISTUMLM85bis-inb2 for information, enrolment and examples of texts.
Students can access the oral part only after passing the written test.
The oral part consists in the discussion (presentation plus comprehension, grammar and vocabulary questions) of one of the texts analyzed during the lessons. Assessment criteria for the oral part will be based on: a) ability to articulate and express a complex thought by making use of adequate language structures; b) adequacy of lexis and grammatical constructions to level B2; c) showing a degree of fluency which might be compatible with level B2.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Individual study.
- Attendance
Students' English will need to be around level B2 CEFR or higher. Students are warmly invited to attend CLA free English courses, which are offered at all levels.
Students will need to study all the materials discussed in class, in addition to the listed grammatical topics, by making reference to the suggested grammar text and to the materials on blended.
Attendance to lectures, whenever possible, is warmly encouraged.
Attendance to English labs is mandatory.
- Course books
Angela Gallagher and Fausto Galuzzi, The Complete Mastering Grammar. La grammatica completa dal livello A1 al livello C1, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
- Assessment
The exam (prova di idoneità) is composed of a written part and an oral part.
The written part includes a Reading Comprehension and some grammar and vocabulary exercises around B2 level. This part is supervised by Dr. Nadia Stevenson at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo (CLA). See the CLA webpage https://cla.uniurb.it/?page=Pil-DISTUMLM85bis-inb2 for information, enrolment and examples of texts.
Students can access the oral part only after passing the written test.
The oral part consists in the discussion (presentation plus comprehension, grammar and vocabulary questions) of one of the texts analyzed during the lessons. Assessment criteria for the oral part will be based on: a) ability to articulate and express a complex thought by making use of adequate language structures; b) adequacy of lexis and grammatical constructions to level B2; c) showing a degree of fluency which might be compatible with level B2.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
Attendance to this course does not in any way substitute the mandatory attendance to the English Labs offered for each year.
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