Alessandro Astolfi

Descrizione sintetica dell’attività

Corso di 20 ore di lingua inglese - livello avanzato - durante il quale si sono potenziate le seguenti abilità e conoscenze:

• Grammar – inversion, participle clauses, modals Listening – for gist and detail

• Pronunciation – foreign words, consonant clusters Reading – for gist and detail

• Vocabulary – descriptive adjectives, sound words Writing – a book/film review

Orario ed attività

Class/Room: TC I
Teachers: Dan and Isabelle
Book: English File Advanced
Date: 25-29 July 2022

Monday
9.00 – 11.00 Listen to match the speakers to the topics (p.36)
Reading for gist and detail in a text about spoilers (p.37)
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.20 – 13.00 Complete book/film reviews with descriptive adjectives (p.37)
Re-write sentences to make them more emphatic (p.148)

Tuesday
9.00 – 11.00 Deciding which famous lines are first/last lines and matching to the correct film/book (Communicativ e activity)
Detailed listening in an interview with a translator (p.38)
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.20 – 13.00 Foreign words in English (p.39)
Deduce the meaning from context of various foreign words in English (p.39)

Wednesday
9.00 – 11.00 Understanding paragraphing in a book review (p.120)
Re-write sentences using participle clauses (p.121)
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.20 – 13.00 Understand the effect of various adverbs (p.121)
Write a book/film review (p.121)

Thursday
9.00 – 11.00 Complete the sounds column with words from the list (p.166)
Practise words with consonant clusters (p.40)
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.20 – 13.00 Detailed listening to 8 people talk about sounds they love/hate (p.41)
Correct mistakes and complete sentences – modals of speculation and deduction (p.149)

Friday
9.00 – 11.00 Read for gist and detail in a text about silence (p.42)
Read about noise regulations and discuss using new phrases
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.20 – 13.00 Presentation of the film’s review

Risultati significativi

• Potenziamento delle conoscenze della lingua inglese, soprattutto nell’orale

• Ambiente stimolante per la presenza di corsisti da paesi europei ed extraeuropei

Criticità

Alto costo della vita e dell’alloggio

Visite culturali effettuate

• The Giant’s Causeway, Belfast

• The Castle of Dublin

• St Patrick’s Cathedral

• The National Gallery

• The Epic Museum (The Irish Emigration Museum)