LINGUA INGLESE (6 CFU -I SEMESTRE)COURSE SYLLABUS

Modulo 1 (3CFU)

Studio del lessico inglese specifico, delle strutture morfo-sintattiche dell’inglese in campo scientifico e delle funzioni comunicative/argomentative tipiche del discorso in ambito scientifico:

a)working with vocabulary: key nouns, key verbs, key adjectives, key adverbs, phrasal verbs.

b)at academic institutions: academic courses, applications and application forms.

c)ways of talking about: sources, facts, data and numbers.

d)opinions and ideas: analysis of results, talking about meaning, research and study aims, talking about points of view.

Modulo 2 (3CFU)

Focus suESP/English for Scientific Purposes ovveroMicrolingua e sul linguaggio tecnico specifico del campo matematico, attraverso l’uso di materiale testuale e audio, per rafforzare le capacità di listening,reading, writing e speaking. Lo studente alla fine del corso dovrà dimostrare di aver acquisito la conoscenza di un lessico scientifico appropriato e di saper leggere e tradurre brevi testi scientifici:

a) reading and translating a text.

b) writing abstracts, reports, summaries, CV and demonstration of a theorem (functions: background, purpose, methods and discussion).

c) presenting a topic using power-point or prezi, describing research methods, processes and procedures, classifying, comparing and contrasting.

RISORSE

Lezioni con handouts e slides; presentazioni di powerpoint/prezi; web quest e 'non googleable question’.

TESTI DI RIFERIMENTO (consigliati)

1)Cambridge English for Scientists, Cambridge University Press; Cambridge Academic English-Upper Intermediate, Cambridge University Press; Scientific English, Zanichelli; P.Emmerson, E-mail English, Macmillan; A.Wallwork, English for Presentation at International Conferences - Springer Science, Oxford University Press.

2)Grammatiche: R.Murphy, English Grammar in Use, Cambridge; F.Galuzzi, Activating Grammar, Pearson/Longman.

3)Dizionari: Collins Student’s Dictionary Plus Grammar, Collins COBUILD London; Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Oxford University Press.