Introduction to Learning Styles

2 Outubro 2020, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: some more common homophones.

Introduction to central grammatical and lexical issues that students have problems with at this level - recorded class

1 Outubro 2020, 12:30 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

An overview of word order in English sentences

Student introductions

1 Outubro 2020, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Students introduced themselves orally then wrote introductory pieces (in part to assess if the Placement Test had allocated them to the correct level).

Class Presentation - recorded class

30 Setembro 2020, 12:30 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

English B1.1  TP1                2020-2021

Programme

While following the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) guideline for English B1.1 level, the requirements and expectations of language learning at a School of Arts and Humanities have also been taken into considered in the construction of the course programme. Therefore, the course content will include:

1. Grammar revision and consolidation of present, past, perfect and continuous verb tenses, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions (time and place); adjectives and adverbs.

2. Developing sentence structure (subject-verb agreement, conjunctions and clauses), word collocations (verbs-nouns & verb-preposition groupings), as well as punctuation and capitalization rules.

3. Reading short stories and poetry.

4. Writing formal and informal emails.

5. Writing descriptive, narrative and autobiography pieces.

6. Listening comprehension exercises and using audio and film clips to teach vocabulary.

7. Oral activities done individually and in groups.

Grading and Assessment

Assessment will be continuous with stipulated moments for written and oral evaluation. Therefore, students will be required to perform a variety of in-class graded assignments (both written and oral), as well as submit home written assignments and do oral and written tests.

The assessment criteria are as follows:

Written Test: 30%

Four short set written assignments: 20% (5% each)

Two short, graded worksheets: 10% (5% each)

Oral examination: 20%

Attendance, course work and participation: 20%

Office Hours (online): Mondays 2.30-3.30 by prior arrangement. Students must send an email request for a meeting by Friday morning.

Links to the Zoom room will be sent on Friday evening. If an office hours session is complete when students send a request, they will be put on the list for the following office hours session. 

Bibliography (selection)

Caldwell, Lucy (ed). Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, London: Faber & Faber, 2019.

Evans, Virginia, Successful Writing: Intermediate, Berkshire: Express Publishing, 2000. Gershel, Liz (ed). Quartet of Stories: Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison. Longman Literature, 1996.

McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’Dell. English Vocabulary in Use: Elementary, 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Murphy, Raymond, Essential Grammar in Use, 4th Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Course introduction

30 Setembro 2020, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Introduction to the course.