Guia docente 2013_14 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
I. GRAMMAR	1. Definite and indefinite articles: revision 2. Inversion 3. Advanced conditional structures and hypothetical expressions 4. Cleft sentences 5. Advanced passive and causative structures 6. Phrasal, prepositional and phrasal prepositional verbs
II. VOCABULARY	1. British and American English 2. Press language: advertising and the mass media 3. Idioms and everyday expressions 4. Academic language
III. READING	1. Strategies: 1.1. Locating main and subordinate ideas: thesis statements and topic sentences 1.2. Understanding organisational strategies of texts and of paragraphs 1.3. Analysing linguistic and textual coherence 1.4. Analysing organisational structures 2. Text types: 2.1. Literary texts (I) – Fiction, Nonfiction 2.2. Literary texts (II) – Poetry 2.3. Newspaper articles 2.4. Scientific articles
IV. WRITING	1. Strategies: 1.1. Gathering ideas 1.2. Organising and revising 1.3. Editing and proofreading 1.4. Evaluating with a rubric 1.5. Citation of sources 2. Text types: 2.1. Personal and critical responses 2.2. Argumentative essays 2.3. Comparison-contrast essays 2.4. Definition essays
V. LISTENING	1. Strategies: 1.1. Listening for general meaning and for specific information 1.2. Coping with unknown vocabulary 1.3. Predicting what is going to be said next 1.4. Coping with different accents 2. Text types: 2.1. News and interviews 2.2. Casual conversation 2.3. Academic lectures 2.4. TV and films
VI. SPEAKING	1. The sounds of English: 1.1. The pronunciation of vowels 1.2. The pronunciation of consonants 1.3. Word stress 1.4. Sentence stress and weak vowels 2. Structuring and delivering academic presentations: a. Aims and objectives b. Researching one's audience c. Presentation structure d. Script and visual aids e. Delivering one's presentation f. Handling questions