Guia docente 2012_13 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1. Sentence Structure	Overview of basic mistakes in English. Review of verb tenses; perfect aspect, simple and continuous forms. Narrative tenses. Ways of referring to the future. Introductory "it". Cleft sentences with "what".
2. Writing 1: A Report	Drafting and organizing, paragraph writing, writing plans. Report dos and dont's. Assessment criteria. Model answers. Useful language.
3. Word Formation	Main types. Suffixes and prefixes, compound adjectives, compound nouns from phrasal verbs. Loans.
4. Verb Patterns	Gerunds and infinitives, "that" clauses. Reporting verbs.
5. Idiomatic Language	Collocations, fixed phrases and idioms. Word + preposition. Easily confused words.
6. Writing 2: A Summary	Summary of short and extensive texts (oral and written). Summary dos and dont's. Model answers.
7. Modality in English	Revision of modal verbs and conditionals. Hypothetical meaning. Inversion.
8. Writing 3: A Book Review	Questionnaire about the plot of the set book, expressing own opinion, describing characters, settings and locations and commenting on relevant information within the book.