Notizie

  • 19 ottobre 2020 annullamento lezione

    Dear Students,

    Unfortunately, tomorrow 20th October I will be unable to come to lesson. We will recuperate the lessons during the 'settimana di recupero'. If you need to contact me, write me an email at the following irismarisa.black@unimc.it

    Regards,

    Iris Black

  • 11 ottobre 2020 SUMMARY

    Dear students,

    Some of you have brought to my attention that the deadline for the paragraph was set for 6th October. I have created a folder on Teams in which you can upload your work.

    See you all on Tuesday.

    Iris Black

  • 03 ottobre 2020 Syllabus L-12 1st year 2020-2021

    Syllabus L-12 I

     

    Thematic Units

    1. Focus on Form Through Music (Pace Model)

    Focus 1 – Past simple, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous

    Learners can:

    - understand the differences between past simple/present perfect simple and continuous

    - use the present perfect with other tenses (commenting, reporting, past tense, future)

    Focus 2 – Other perfect tenses

    Learners can:

    - understand the chronological and achronological aspects of narrative tenses

    Focus 3 – Going to, future simple, present continuous, present simple, would

    Learners can:

    - understand and use the future tenses

    - use the verb tenses correctly to express unfulfilled plans, predicting the future, definite time

    Focus 4 – Zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional

    Learners can:

    - understand and use the conditional tenses to express realistic conditions, unrealistic conditions, impossible conditions, consequence that are generally true, consequences that may be true, and consequence that are never true

    Focus 5 – Mixed conditionals

    Learners can:

    - understand and use mixed conditional tenses to express how the present would be different if something different had happened in the past and if the present were different, something different would have been done in the past

    2. General Writing (linked with Culture & Society and Professional Writing)

    Focus 1 – Punctuation and Syntax

    Learners can:

    - understand the origins and purpose of punctuation

    - use English punctuation correctly

    - build effective sentences

     

    Focus 2 - Subjects and Actions

    Learners understand the importance of and can:

    - put actions in verbs

    - put characters in subjects

    - keep subjects near verbs

    Focus 3 - Concision and Simplicity

    Learners understand the importance of and can:

    - omit needless words (excessive hedging, ineffectual phrases)

    - prefer simple words

    - use simple subjects

    - use adjectives/adverbs frugally

    Focus 4 - Cohesion, Coherence, and Emphasis

    Learners understand the importance of and can:

    - put new information last

    - use passive voice judiciously

    - match the first and last sentences of a paragraph

    Focus 5 - Run-ons and Fragments, Modifiers, Pronouns and Parallelisms

    Learners can avoid:

    - run-ons and fragments

    And can correctly use:

    - modifiers, pronouns and parallelisms

     

    Focus 6 -  Relative Clauses

    Learners understand and can use:

    - defining and non-defining relative clauses

    - the three types of reduced relative clauses

    Focus 7 -  Passive and active voices

    Learners understand and can:

    - use the active voice appropriately

    - use the passive voice appropriately

     

    Focus 8 -  Conjunctions

    Learners understand and can use:

    - coordinating conjunctions

    - subordinating conjunctions

    - correlative conjunctions

    3. Culture & Society

    Learners watch and discuss episodes of Dead to Me in order to explore culture, social norms and interpersonal relations in the United States. For each episode learners must also submit a written summary paragraph. The paragraph patterns introduced are chronological and list.

     

     

    4. Travel and Tourism - Virtual Tours (Linked with Professional Writing)

    Learners explore the culture, music, cuisine, sights and history of each city indivually and participate in small group tasks.

    Focus 1 – Boston

    Focus 2 – Las Vegas

     

    Focus 3 – New Orleans

     

    Focus 4 – San Francisco

    5. Mock Profession (linked with Professional Writing)

    For the professional writing unit, learners must become experts on brand positioning, which is the context for all the professional documents produced.

    Learners know:

    - the definition and purpose of place branding

    - the elements of successful place branding (stakeholders, hardware, software and brand positioning expression)

    - how to devise a place branding strategy targeting millennials

    6. Professional Writing

    The context for all the documents is based on the cities explored during the virtual tours and the mock position of branding consultant introduced in the Mock Profession unit.

    Focus 1 – Claim or complaint letter

    Learners:

    - know the purpose of the document

    - can format the letter correctly

    - know the proper content for each paragraph

    - structure each paragraph correctly

    Focus 2 – Positive adjustment letter

    Learners:

    - know the purpose of the document

    - can format the letter correctly

    - know the proper content for each paragraph

    - structure each paragraph correctly

    Focus 3 – Negative adjustment letter

    Learners:

    - know the purpose of the document

    - can format the letter correctly

    - know the proper content for each paragraph

    - structure each paragraph correctly

    Focus 4 – Memorandum

    Learners:

    - know the purpose of the document

    - can format the document correctly

    - know the proper content for each paragraph

    - structure each paragraph correctly

    Exams

    Multiple-choice midterm at the end of the first semestre.

    Professional writing exam at the end of the second semester.

     

    Online Material

    All of the resources used during the lessons are available on the OpenOlat platform: https://online.unimc.it/dmz/