Educational guide 2015_16
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grao en Linguas Estranxeiras
 Subjects
  First foreign language VII: English
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
I. GRAMMAR & USE OF ENGLISH 1. Phrasal and prepositional verbs.
2. Advanced conditional clauses.
3. Inversion.
4. 'It' clauses: anticipatory and dummy 'it'.
5. Advanced reported speech.
6. Advanced passive and causative structures.
Tasks: transformations, multiple choice, cloze test.
II. LISTENING 1. Casual conversation.
2. News and interviews.
3. Documentaries.
4. Academic lectures and debates.
5. Advertisements
6. Films
Tasks: mult¡ple choice, multiple matching, sentence completion.
III. VOCABULARY

1. Daily Life. Idioms and everyday expressions.
2. Nature: Fauna and flora
3. Official language: Politics and public institutions
4. Press language: advertising and the mass media.
5. Academic language. Culture and technology.
6. British English and other varieties of English.
Tasks: multiple choice, word formation, cloze test.
IV. READING 1. Newspaper and magazine articles. Literary passages: structural analysis; key words and ideas.
2. Scientific articles and essays: paraphrasing; contrasting; summarising main ideas.
3. Reports and proposals: analysis, argumentation and assessment.
Tasks: multiple-choice text, gapped text, multiple matching.
V. WRITING 1. Summaries.
2. Reports.
3. Essays.
4. Proposals.
Tasks: drafting, editing, formatting and writing compositions.
VI. SPEAKING Academic presentations on the topics discussed in class.
1. Aims and objectives.
2. Researching one's audience.
3. Presentation structure.
4. Script and visual aids.
5. Delivering one's presentation.
6. Handling questions.
Tasks: giving presentations, addressing an audience, answering questions, debating and contrasting ideas.
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