IL LETTORATO DEL PRIMO e SECONDO ANNO: aprile 2019

I enjoyed study geography at school and now I’ve enrolled at the Economics Faculty.
I used to be keen of all scientific subjects but now I would prefer to study art.
I want meet your sister when she comes to see you – she sounds very nice.
My friends tell the English exam is quite difficult but I’m not worried.
The tickets, which are extremely good value, can be buy from large supermarkets.
The number of people which asked for the discount was low but grew during the summer period.
He wanted always to be a doctor and after doing medicine he now works in a hospital.
The informations they gave us was not very helpful so I consulted the website instead.
There isn’t many time, do you think we should get a taxi to the exhibition centre?
He graduated in languages in June and is now thinking of do a second degree in psychology.
The policeman showed us an identikit picture of the man who steal the car.
How long does it take to get the station on foot from your house
I was so angry that I took the watch broken to the jewellers to get my money back.
He rang me this morning for tell me that he had passed his driving test.
I won’t be able to go on holiday this year unless I will get a part-time job.
It was so nice day that they decided to have a picnic in the field.
I haven’t never seen anybody who rides a horse so well before.
My boyfriend always takes me to see horror films, but I don’t like very much.
We went to Guatemala last year so we were tired of the usual beach holiday.
I’ve gone to Marbella. I remember it well. A busy town with a nice modern promenade and picturesque ‘piazze’.

ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS

I enjoyed studying (‘enjoy’ + ing)
keen on (keen + on = essere appassionato di)
want to (‘want’+ to + verb)
tell me (‘tell’ + person (me/you/him/her etc); nb. ‘say’non è seguito dalla persona)
can be bought (to be + past participle = passive)
who (relative pronoun ‘who’ = people)
always wanted (frequency adverb goes before the main verb)
the informations (information = uncountable noun)
much time (‘much’ with uncountable nouns, ‘many’ with countable nouns)
doing (‘ing’after a preposition)
stole (past tense of steal = steal stole stolen)
get to (preposition necessary; get to /go to /come to the station, BUT. arrive at/ reach the station)
broken watch (adjective before noun)
to tell me (to+base form = per/a scopo di)
unless I ~~will~~ get (1° conditional = if/unless/when + present)
such a (such a + noun; so + adjective)
I have~~n’t~~ never (double negative)
l don’t like them (‘like’ + direct object)
as (as = siccome; so = quindi)
I’ve been to Madrid (use ‘been’ not ‘gone’ se sei stato e tornato)

lunedì 29 aprile 2019

Lettorato II Anno Exam Practice Grammar and Accuracy section.

Practice with cloze texts

https://www.englishlearner.com/intermediate/cloze-1.shtml

https://todayschool.es/fc/

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/FCE-Part-2-Open-Cloze.htm

lots here:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/open-cloze-index.htm

and sentences:

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-open-cloze.php

with multiple choice options:

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/FCE-Part-1-Multiple-Choice-Cloze-Practice-Test.htm

Practice with transformation sentences

all the exercises on these pages:

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-key-word-transformations.php

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/key-word-transformation/key-word-transformation-index.htm

https://elearning.unior.it/pluginfile.php/96292/mod_resource/content/1/magic%20100%20and%20key%21.pdf

https://todayschool.es/first-certificate-tests-2/

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight

modern English translations

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/GawainAndTheGreenKnight.php

http://alliteration.net/Pearl.htm

http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/sggk_neilson.pdf

https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/weston-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight

original text

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Gawain

then go to Passus I

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/Gawain/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

martedì 16 aprile 2019

Homework for class 2A with Chris Young Lettorato Secondo Anno

for Monday 29^th April 2019

English File Workbook pages 227-236

Your book – finish and revise

English File grammar unit 9 page 149 if not done with us in class

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/countable-and-uncountable-nouns

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/upperint/a_grammar/file06/nef_upperint_grammar06_aii01?cc=it&selLanguage=it

English File grammar unit 10 page 150 (if not done with us in class)

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/quantifiers-quantity-exercises.html

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/quantifiers/

https://www.grammarbank.com/determiners-quantifiers-tests.html (click on the rules and then the pages under Subject Tests)

English File grammar unit 10 page 151 (if not done with us in class)

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/articles/article-index.htm (click on the exercises)

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/articles-intermediate-exercises.html (click on the exercises)

Michael Vince, New First Certificate Language Practice with Key, (Macmillan) 2014 or earlier edition – to finish and revise.

Revision and Extension – to finish and revise.
Writing page 118 (an 'opinion' essay is very probable in the exam), and pages 114 and 115 if not done (or if done badly!) because a 'narrative' and a 'for and against' essay are very likely to be at the esonero and exam.

Or 'Advantages and disadvantages of living and working in Rome.'

Or 'Advantages and disadvantages od studying English for an Italian.'

Concentrate on choosing carefully your layout, structure, linking words, vocabulary and verb tenses and patterns. Also page 116 for more practice!

BRING 'ENGLISH FILE', REVISION AND EXTENSION AND 'TOWARDS B2 LEVEL' TO THE LESSONS

Homework for class 1E wth Chris Young, Lettorato Primo Anno

For Monday 29th April 2019

Bring English File and Extra 1

English File Workbook pages 224-236
Your book to finish, then revise vocanulary
English Grammar in Use – finish units and check appendix 1-7 pages 292-301, additional exercises 5-8 (pages 304-7)
Grammar, Question tags, English File page 151 (if not done in class)
English Grammar in Use unit 52 to revise and also:
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/question_tags3.htm
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/question-tags-exercise-1.html
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/questions_tag-exercises.html
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/question-tags/exercises
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_question_tags.htm

Grammar, Relative clauses, English File page 150 (if not done in class)

English Grammar in Use units 92-97 to revise and also:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/relative_pronouns.htm

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/intermediate-grammar/relative-clauses-non-defining-relative-clauses

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/d_relative_clauses.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/ND_relative_clauses.htm

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/defining-and-non-defining-relative-clauses/

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?04

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4219

Writing

1) write an advert for a flat you share with other students. One of the others is leaving in June. Make it as realistic as possible. Don't forget to say who you are, describe the area, the building, the flat, (the landlord maybe?), the rent, what it includes, any rules, the kind of person that you are looking for and anything else you think is important. Give contact details and suggest a time when you are available for anyone interesred in viewing the flat.

2)Write a letter of enquiry to an English language school in a town in the UK, the US or Ireland to ask for information. Explain who you are, what you are would like to do and the information you need. You could base your letter on a website like this:

http://www.cesc.co.uk/

this is a real school and you can write to it!

3) Write a covering letter and type a CV to apply for a job in the next Olympics in Dublin (see page 120, column one (if not done in class)

4) The advantages and disadvantages of living with your parents when you are a young adult.
5) The biography of an older person that you know well e.g. your grandmother or uncle. Interview them to getyour information. English File page 121.

prossimo ricevimento con Chris Young

lunedì 29 aprile 2019 e poi lunedì 6 maggio 2019

ore: 15.00, Stanza 203
Università La Sapienza – Sede Marco Polo (Ex Poste)
Via Circonvallazione Tiburtina n,4 00185 Roma

venerdì 12 aprile 2019

prossimo ricevimento Chris Young

lunedì 15 aprile 2019 e poi lunedì 29 aprile 2019

ore: 15.00, Stanza 203
Università La Sapienza – Sede Marco Polo (Ex Poste)
Via Circonvallazione Tiburtina n,4 00185 Roma

giovedì 11 aprile 2019

secondo esonero con Chris Young

Are the following students planning to do the second esonero with me on Thursday 9th May at 9.00 in laboratorio 003?

TEGAZIO GIORDANA
TERRANOVA LUDOVICO
TOLOCENCO OLGA
TORDI FLAVIA
VINTARI LUDOVICA
ZANELLA KARIN

Please let me know by email or at one of my lessons.

Chris Young: christopher.young@uniroma1.it

martedì 9 aprile 2019

Homework for class 1E wth Chris Young, Lettorato Primo Anno

for next Monday 15th April 2019
Bring English File and Extra 1

English File Workbook pages 224-236
Your book to finish, then revise vocanulary
English Grammar in Use – finish units and check appendix 1-7 pages 292-301, additional exercises 5-8 (pages 304-7)
Grammar, Question tags, English File page 150 (if not done in class)
English Grammar in Use unit 52 to revise and also:
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/question_tags3.htm
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/question-tags-exercise-1.html
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/questions_tag-exercises.html
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/question-tags/exercises
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_question_tags.htm

Grammar, Relative clauses, English File page 150 (if not done in class)

English Grammar in Use units 92-97 to revise and also:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/relative_pronouns.htm

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/intermediate-grammar/relative-clauses-non-defining-relative-clauses

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/d_relative_clauses.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/ND_relative_clauses.htm

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/defining-and-non-defining-relative-clauses/

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?04

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4219

Grammar, Quantifiers, English File page 149 (if not done in class)

English Grammar in Use units 86, 87, 88, 89 to revise and also:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/mengen.htm

https://www.grammar.cl/Games/Much_Many_Lot_Few.htm

https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-quantifiers.php
https://www.grammarbank.com/quantifiers-exercises.html

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_some_any_much_many.htm

http://www.yeuanhvan.com/grammar-topics/1795-unit-14-dialogues-muchmanya-lot

http://www.yeuanhvan.com/grammar-topics/1812-unit-15-dialogues-few-little

Writing

http://www.cesc.co.uk/

this is a real school and you can write to it!

3) Write a covering letter and type a CV to apply for a job in the next Olympics in Dublin (see page 120, column one (if not done in class)

For next Monday 15^th April

4) The advantages and disadvantages of living with your parents when you are a young adult.

Homework for class 2A wth Chris Young, Lettorato Secondo Anno

for Monday 15^th April 2019

English File Reading pages 98-99, exercise 2 a-c

English File Workbook pages 227-236

Your book – finish and revise

English File grammar unit 9 page 149 if not done with us in class

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/countable-and-uncountable-nouns

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/upperint/a_grammar/file06/nef_upperint_grammar06_aii01?cc=it&selLanguage=it

English File grammar unit 10 page 150 (if not done with us in class)

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/quantifiers-quantity-exercises.html

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/quantifiers/

https://www.grammarbank.com/determiners-quantifiers-tests.html (click on the rules and then the pages under Subject Tests)

English File grammar unit 10 page 151 (if not done with us in class)

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/articles/article-index.htm (click on the exercises)

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/articles-intermediate-exercises.html (click on the exercises)

Michael Vince, New First Certificate Language Practice with Key, (Macmillan) 2014 or earlier edition – to finish and revise.

Or 'Advantages and disadvantages of living and working in Rome.'

Or 'Advantages and disadvantages od studying English for an Italian.'

Concentrate on choosing carefully your layout, structure, linking words, vocabulary and verb tenses and patterns. Also page 116 for more practice!

BRING 'ENGLISH FILE', REVISION AND EXTENSION AND 'TOWARDS B2 LEVEL' TO THE LESSONS

giovedì 4 aprile 2019

Secondo Esonero Class 1E Lettorato del Primo Anno with Chris Young

If you did the first esonero (for the First Year Lettorato) with me in December 2018 and passed and intend to do the second esonero on Thursday the 9th May 2019 at the CLA in laboratorio 3 at 9.00, please contact me if you didn't sign up for it in class.

mercoledì 3 aprile 2019

Homework for class 1E wth Chris Young, Lettorato Primo Anno

for next Monday 8th April 2019

English File Workbook pages 221-230
Your book pages 240-250, then revise vocanulary
English Grammar in Use – finish units, then appendix 6-7, additional exercises 1-4 (pages 302-4)

Grammar, Third Conditional, English File page 148 (if not done in class)

English Grammar in Use unit 40 (compare with 1^st and 2^nd Condtional, units 25, 38, 39) also:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional-exercise-1.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g8-third-conditional-exercise.php https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-third-exercises.html

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm

Grammar, Quantifiers, English File page 149 (if not done in class)

English Grammar in Use units 86, 87, 88, 89

also:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/mengen.htm

https://www.grammar.cl/Games/Much_Many_Lot_Few.htm

https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-quantifiers.php
https://www.grammarbank.com/quantifiers-exercises.html

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_some_any_much_many.htm

http://www.yeuanhvan.com/grammar-topics/1795-unit-14-dialogues-muchmanya-lot

http://www.yeuanhvan.com/grammar-topics/1812-unit-15-dialogues-few-little

Writing

http://www.cesc.co.uk/

this is a real school and you can write to it!

3) Write a covering letter and type a CV to apply for a job in the next Olympics (see page 120, column one (if not done in class)

BRING ENGLISH FILE and EXTRA 1 to all the lessons

martedì 2 aprile 2019

Secondo Esonero Class 2A with Chris Young

If you did the first esonero (for the Second Year Lettorato) with me in December and passed and intend to do the second esonero on the 13th May 2019 in aula 205 at 17.00, please contact me.