LETTORATO II ANNO Some Information

Collaboratori Linguistici / Canali:

Students must respect the alphabet division as given below.

 

2A  (cognome studente A - C) -  Christopher Young 

2B  (D - K)  -  Jane Tucker 

2C  (L - Q)  -  Mattia Bilardello 

2D  (R - Z)  -  Rosanna Maria Rossi 

Programme

The goal of the second-year course is to bring students to a B2 level in the four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking, and to practise upper-intermediate grammar and vocabulary. At the end of the course, there will be an exam  based on the course material covered in class (see below). Students are also required to read a set book of modern fiction in English, to be used as the basis for part of the exam. Students are strongly encouraged to attend lessons where possible, and are also expected to do a considerable amount of self-study outside class hours. 

 

Final Exam

The final exam will consist of a written and/or oral test. The format may change from one exam session to another, and may be online or in presenza, depending on the current situation. Students will be advised well in advance what format to expect.

The exam will include one or any combination of the following: 1) English in Use, 2) Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary, 3) a question about the set book, 4) Writing, 5) Oral Exam.

ENGLISH IN USE may include any or all of the following: sentence transformations, a cloze test (a text with missing words to be filled in) or translation of single sentences. For the READING, students will be required to read a text taken from an authentic source and answer questions about content, vocabulary and discourse. For the SET BOOK, students will be given a page taken at random from the book and will be asked to comment on the characters and what is happening in the scene, as well as to contextualise the extract in relation to events happening before and after the scene in question. For the WRITING, students will be required to write a composition of 180-200 words from a choice of three topics (one from each of the following types: narrative, opinion, advantages/disadvantages). For the ORAL EXAM, students may be asked about any aspect of their course, including the set book, and will also be required to engage in general conversation.

The first available date for the exam is June 2022.

Coursebook:

English File DIGITAL GOLD B2 Student’s Book with key, 4th Edition, Clive Oxenden & Christina Latham-Koenig, OUP, 2020.  It is important to actually buy the book (not make a copy of it), as it includes an access code to online material which will provide most of the work to do for the course. You will need to already have this book at the first lesson of the semester.

 

Additional Material:

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 10^th  edition (or similar)

New First Certificate Language Practice with key, Michael Vince, Macmillan, 2009

Oxford English Grammar Course Intermediate (with answers), Michael Swan and Catherine Walter, OUP, 2011

For language learning websites and news websites, see list at the end of the lettorato section.

 

Set Book:  A Room With a View, E.M. Forster

The e-version can be downloaded from this link:

https://freeditorial.com/en/books/a-room-with-a-view

Contacts:

Mattia Bilardello – mattia.bilardello@uniroma1.it 

Rosannamaria Rossi – rosannamaria.rossi@uniroma1.it ; FB page: Rossi’s English courses at la sap 

Jane Tucker – janeheathfield.tucker@uniroma1.it 

Christopher Young – christopher.young@uniroma1.it ; blog: lett1.blogspot.com

See also lecturers’ individual pages on the Centro Linguistico d’Ateneo (CLA) website.