Centre |
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació |
Departament |
Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya |
Professor responsable |
Sin datos cargados |
Met. Docent |
Short lectures and pair and group work. In addition, students may be asked to give brief oral presentations on previously prepared topics. |
Bibliografia |
Textbook: Newbrook, J. & J. Wilson (2002) New Proficiency Gold. London: Longman. Exam Practice: Mann, R. (2000) Proficiency Gold Exam Maximiser. London: Longman. Vocabulary Practice: McCarthy, M. & F. O'Dell (1994) English Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reading Material: Crystal, D. (1997) English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
Continguts |
Descripción del curso/ Contents for the course: A. GRAMMAR: past tenses, present perfect tenses, conditionals, unreal vs. real tenses, emphasis (inversion), emphasis (preparatory it), modal verbs, degrees of likelihood, the passive voice, relative clauses, participle clauses, conditionals, mixed conditionals, emphasis (intensifiers), verb patterns, emphasis (cleft sentences), position of adjectives, future forms, reflexive verbs, future forms (with modal verbs), indirect speech, continuous and perfect aspect, clauses of concession, commparison. B. VOCABULARY: style and register, idiomatic expressions, dependent prepositions, metaphor, connectors, collocations, phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, word formation, fixed expressions, words with similar meaning. D. SKILLS PRACTICE: Students will be progressively made familiar with reading strategies, learning techniques such as 'reading for gist', skimming, scanning, guessing and inferring meaning from both co-text and discourse context, and the like, Writing skills will be approached as a process, building up technique |