martedì 15 ottobre 2019

Lettorato I, cambiamento di aula da lunedì prossimo

dal 21 ottobre 2019
Lettorato Inglese I (del Primo Anno) 
che fa parte del modulo Lingua Inglese I 
dei Prof. D. Montini, F. Ciambella e V. Piunno  

Gruppo 1E, cognome studente O-S, con Chris Young

lunedì 11.00-13.00, Aula G. Levi, ex Vetrerie, Via dei Volsci 122 

giovedì 9.00-11.00, Lab CLA 003 

lunedì 14 ottobre 2019

Lettorato II con Chris Young


DON'T FORGET if you are attending my class for Lettorato II (cognome A-Dg) you need to put you information on ths page and send it:


Lettorato I con Chris Young

DON'T FORGET if you are attending my class for Lettorato I (cognome O-S) you need to put you information on ths page and send it:

Homework for Thursday 17 October (and some for Monday 21 October) for Gruppo 1E Lettorato I with Chris Young


Get the course book from a bookshop if you still haven't got it! See:

http://lett1.blogspot.com/2019/09/lettorato-i-first-year-2019-2020.html

With the instructions on the inside cover, go online to englishfileonline.com or 
https://englishfile4e.oxfordonlinepractice.com
and register, to create an account with a password and ger access to all the online material. You will need your access code from the book. You can get help from the eltsupport address or other students but not me (I'm very old!).
Go online and explore the materials. Download what you will want to access regularly. Maybe everything! Audio recordings/videos/answers/tapescripts

Homework for Monday 21 October

Get the dispensa Extra 1 from the copisteria – Exam reading practice,
pages 43-45 (then check with a dictionary and answers on pages 46-47) if not done. then pages  127-8
Student's Book,page, 16 Reading exercise 3 a-f
pages 14-15 if not done yet, Practical English, using your online audio and video materials and the tapescripts
grammar,
pages 132-4 to revise, also to check in English Grammar in Use
Workbook pages 180-182
writing -page 115
Get Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate),
Cambridge University Press - any edition - Do units 11-20!

Meanwhile, get a 
book in modern English (after 1920) to read for the oral. something you like. You need to read at least 250 pages and take notes on the vocabulary for the oral exam in the summer. Ask me about this in class if you are not sure. Read and take notes on pages 1-20.

Extra Grammar Practice
See you on Monday



domenica 13 ottobre 2019

Lettorato I Practice exercises


with multiple choice options:




just with gaps:









and other texts at intermediate level by clicking on the links on this page:


click on the PDFs:


Practice with error correction sentences

the exercise on this page and then the exercises on the other pages through the links near the beginning of the page:






see all the links here:


Then this:

Error identification – Extra practice exercises. Decide which part of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. Then look at the answers below.

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

ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS

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


Lettorato II exercises


Practice with cloze texts




lots here:

and sentences:


with multiple choice options:


Practice with transformation sentences

all the exercises on these pages:





Translation for Lettorato II



and lots more at the bottom of that page, e.g.