ADVANCED ENGLISH

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

PS1043N

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT FOR WELFARE

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ANGELONI GRAZIA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites

B1 level competences (following the European language framework)
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Objectives

TEACHING/LEARNING AIMS

The course aims to develop in an integrated way the receptive and productive abilities, in this case either listening and oral or written comprehension, together with the ability to use the foreign language in a flexible and effective way. Finally the language reflection on a morpho-syntactic, semantic-communicative level will be developed and improved.

Contents

Contents:
In order to make the teaching of the English language a cross curricular discipline in the degree course curriculum, following an interdisciplinary approach, the following issues will be taken into consideration, extracted from the text pointed out in the section "References". In particular:
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY (module 5, pp. 156-191):
- Multiculturalism
- Enhancing diversity
- Changing families
-Future workspaces
-Environment and sustainability
- Globalisation
-Technology and new lifestyle
revision and practice: How to make a graph, the newspaper article. Grammar revision: The modal verbs and the verb tenses (SPT, PPT, FT, PPT, PT) the sentence and its syntax; comparatives and superlatives
SOCIAL ISSUES (module 6, pp. 194-264)
-World poverty
- Urban poverty
- Hunger and starvation
- Homelessness
- Unemployment
- Violence and crime
- Social exclusion
- Treaties, Conventions and Declarations
revision and practice: How to write a CV; The job interview. Grammar revision: Types of future, Ist, IInd and IIIrd conditionali
PROFESSIONALS OF THE SOCIAL SECTOR (module 7, pp. 235-264)
- Working in the social sector
- Social workers
- Early years care
- Youth workers
- Carers for the elderly
- Domiciliary assistants
- Team Managers and Supervisors
- Volunteers

Extended Syllabus

FULL PROGRAMME
In order to make the teaching of the English language a cross curricular discipline in the degree course curriculum, following an interdisciplinary approach, the following issues will be taken into consideration, extracted from the text pointed out in the section "References". In particular:
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY (module 5, pp. 156-191):
- Multiculturalism
- Enhancing diversity
- Changing families
-Future workspaces
-Environment and sustainability
- Globalisation
-Technology and new lifestyle
revision and practice: How to make a graph, the newspaper article. Grammar revision: The modal verbs and the verb tenses (SPT, PPT, FT, PPT, PT) the sentence and its syntax; comparatives and superlatives
SOCIAL ISSUES (module 6, pp. 194-264)
-World poverty
- Urban poverty
- Hunger and starvation
- Homelessness
- Unemployment
- Violence and crime
- Social exclusion
- Treaties, Conventions and Declarations
revision and practice: How to write a CV; The job interview. Grammar revision: Types of future, Ist, IInd and IIIrd conditionali
PROFESSIONALS OF THE SOCIAL SECTOR (module 7, pp. 235-264)
- Working in the social sector
- Social workers
- Early years care
- Youth workers
- Carers for the elderly
- Domiciliary assistants
- Team Managers and Supervisors
- Volunteers

Recommended Bibliography

REFERENCES
Piccioli I., A World of Care, Editrice San Marco, Bergamo, 2017.
Marengo M.., Brush up your English, Agorà Edizioni scolastiche, Voll. 1 e 2, Torino, 2011

Teaching Methods

TEACHING METHODS
Interactive lessons based on inductive and deductive approaches and strategies. Cooperative learning, learning by discovery, learningby doing.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

ASSESSMENT METHODS
The follow-up assessment, in compliance with the learning aims aboce mentioned will be carried out by a written structured test, in order to assess reading comprehension and structural skills, as far as level B2 concerns. In the assessment test a value for each item will determine the final evaluation expressed in 20i/20 or 30/30. The student who has got at lest 12/20 or 18/30 will pass the examination

Contacts/More Information

COURSE ORGANIZATION
18 class hours and interactive lessons including exercises; 51 hours of individual study

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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