Questa è la bacheca di Angie Attivissimo

 

Please note that I will not be teaching on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December. The lessons missed will be held in January during the "recupero" week.

The Reading Comprehension Assessment will take place on January 13th at 11.00 a.m. in Aula L2 San Tommaso.

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This is how the Ist year is organised:

 

IST - YEAR ENGLISH,  2009-10

PEOPLE

English professors: Prof.ssa Silvia Monti – Prof. Romano Canevari

CEL (Collaboratori ed esperti linguistici: English language teachers):

• Dott.ssa Angelica Attivissimo (BASIC NATURAL ENGLISH ): http://angieattivissimo.splinder.com; aattivissimo@unipv.it
• Dott.ssa Cheryl Thomas (NATURAL ENGLISH ):

      http://cherylthomas.splinder.com; cthomas@unipv.it       

• Office hours (ricevimento): days and times posted at office of Language Centre – Centro Linguistico uffici (Teresiano courtyard), Language Centre laboratory – Centro Linguistico laboratorio (Sforzesco courtyard)  and/or electronic notice board (splinder address)

 

 

BOOKS/Materials:  (available at university bookshops)

• Grammar Practice for Upper-Intermediate Student with Key Pack + CD Rom, Pearson Longman by Steve Elsworth, Elaine Walker

• Language Leader Upper Int Coursebook with CD Rom, and Workbook with key (Pearson Longman)
• First Certificate past Reading Comprehension Exams (can be found at CLU photocopying centre)
• 4 articles from any English magazine or newspaper (not “English 24” or “Speak Up”) of at least 600 words
• Recommended: a good Monolingual dictionary

 

ACADEMIC YEAR:            4 terms, each term lasts 5 teaching weeks with a break in between of 1 or 2 weeks, except between terms 2 + 3 when there will be a longer one.

 

 

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• raise student levels in the skills areas of: grammar, listening, writing, speaking, reading and pronunciation;
• assess student levels and progress in the above areas;
• generate student involvement and progress with communicative-based lessons and a self-study programme.

 

All students must first sit a placement test to determine their level of entry. Those students who place at level B1 or below (0-66 on the placement test), of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework, will follow the “Basic Natural English Course” which will be held by Dott.ssa Attivissimo. Students who scored 67+ will attend the “Natural English Course” held by Dott.ssa Thomas. Students who for various reasons were unable to sit the placement test on September 30^th 2009 should email Andrea Passioni at the following address andrea.passioni@unipv.it, sending him name, surname, matriculation number and ‘codice fiscale’.

 

 

The Basic Natural English (BNE) course has been created for those incoming students who do not have the minimum level considered suitable for participating in the programme (B1 from the European framework). These students will be receiving more teaching hours during which, alongside the units from Language Leader (which are the same for both BNE and Natural English), the  basic structures of English will be revised and consolidated.

 

The complete academic programme consists of the Professors’ courses (S.Monti – R. Canevari) and all CEL lessons.  For each  CEL course the students are divided into 3 groups, each of which receives the same didactic program from the same teacher throughout the whole academic year. Students[1] are assessed in 5 different areas:

 

Grammar/Lexis:

This will partly be based on describing and using traditional grammar “rules” and partly on an exploration/discussion approach to diverse grammar issues with the intent to promote students’ awareness of grammar and the English language.  The explanations will also highlight the close relationship between grammar and vocabulary, common errors, areas of potential confusion and differences between British and North American usage.  The importance of context and lexical collocation will form a significant part of the course.  Text structure and discourse will also be considered as these areas are essential for the students to develop beyond the confines of simple grammar and sentence structure. Furthermore, contrastive analysis of the most relevant and basic differences at the phonological, morpho-syntactic, and semantic level between English and Italian will also be considered.

 

Listening:

This module aims at helping students improve their ability to understand the meaning of spoken English, and to extract gist and meaning from different spoken texts.

 

Speaking:

This part of the course is designed to improve students’ pronunciation and their ability to interact in conversational English in a range of contexts. It also aims at giving students a wide grasp of vocabulary, and help them to construct an argument and use appropriate communication styles for a variety of situations. Students will also be taught to recognise and use different styles of register as well as to become aware of the conventions of politeness as they are expressed through “natural” spoken English.

 

Writing:

This part will prepare students to write informal/formal emails/letters, notes (note-taking), a questionnaire, a short report, a travel blog

writing through different tasks that focus on the following features: planning answers, sentence handling, paragraph organization, useful language, appropriate style and register.

 

Reading:

Students will be required to  choose their own reading materials and expound upon them during the academic year according to turns assigned by their teachers. More info will be supplied during the academic year. Non-attending students should contact the teachers about this part of the global test.

 

 

SELF-STUDY PROGRAMME

 

Listening: students must go to the Laboratory of the Language Centre and carry out practice tests based on FCE exercises. This self-study will be supported by specific lessons aimed at explaining how to best approach and manage different types of listening exercises.

 

Reading: Students will have to complete a series of FCE (First Certificate English ) type reading comprehension exercises which will be corrected in class on dates fixed by the teachers.  These exercises can be found in a folder entitled “First Certificate Reading Comprehension Practice for 1^st Year Students”, which is available for photocopying from the LC Lab.

They will also have to choose the 4 above-mentioned newspaper or magazine articles.

Students are strongly encouraged to read as much as possible in English, and watch films or TV programmes in English.  In the Language laboratory there is a wide selection of films in English which can be seen with or without English subtitles.

 

 

ATTENDING STUDENTS

Didactic program/objectives are the same for attending and non-attending students. Attending students are assessed differently from non-attending students by means of an assessment programme: the assessments will take place during the academic year; participation, progress, attendance, etc. are taken into consideration in  each student’s final grade.

 

Students are considered as enrolled in the assessment programme with 70% minimum attendance rate (but should attend 100%). 70% means an average of 70% at the end of the academic year, although students should try to attend 70% of the lessons in each term. Special privilege will be given to students who attend 80% or more and these students will have the option of being assessed during the academic year (advantage for “exam anxiety” sufferers) instead of during the oral assessment at the end of the 4^th term.

 

 

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS or STUDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE 70% ATTENDANCE

Students who do not attend lessons obviously cannot be part of the assessment programme. This is also true for students with less than 70% attendance rate. These students must sit the complete global (3 sessions/year generally held end of August or beginning of September, January  and June). They will be examined on the same academic programme INCLUDING THE 4 ARTICLES.

 If a student fails only 1 part of the global (s)he can re-sit only that part, if (s)he fails 2 or more parts then (s)he must re-sit the global in its entirety.

 

 

 

ASSESSMENTS

1. Reading Comprehension: end of 2^nd term
2. Listening: end of 3^rd term
3. Grammar/Lexis +  Writing: end of 4^th term
4. Oral production and pronunciation: end of 4^th term

 

Students must pass all 5 parts to complete the CEL’s course. If a student fails 1 part (s)he may re-take only that part during global sessions within the subsequent 12 months; if (s)he fails 2 or more parts then (s)he must sit the global in its entirety.

 

N.B.

For those students who have decided to change degree course after attending the 1^st year in 2008/9 and move to the new “Lingue per le Imprese” degree course: if you have already passed and registered the English I exam (CEL and Professor Monti parts), then get in touch with the Segreteria Studenti. For those who have completed only some parts of the exam: you will probably have to re-sit the exam, but this will be confirmed as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

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Benvenuto a tutte le matricole!

My office hours for the Ist term (until November 9th 2009):
Mondays 10.00 - 12.00 at Centro Linguistico Uffici (Cortile Teresiano)

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