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English intensive
5 February–6 March 2014
17 lessons; 34 hours
English intensive
5 February–6 March 2014
17 lessons; 34 hours
Towards the end of poverty

find 20 errors

IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that
―more than half the people in the world is living in condition
approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity
possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of
that people.‖ It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but
the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting
people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there
number felt by half as a shares of the total population in
developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1
billion people.
Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s
pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on
the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted
extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
Towards the end of poverty

find 20 errors

IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that
―more than half the people in the world is living in condition
approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity
possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of
that people.‖ It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but
the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting
people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there
number felt by half as a shares of the total population in
developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1
billion people.
Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s
pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on
the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted
extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that
―more than half the people in the world are living in conditions
approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity
possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of
those people.‖ It has taken much longer than Truman hoped,
but the world has lately been making extraordinary progress in
lifting people out of extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2010,
their number fell by half as a share of the total population in
developing countries, from 43% to 21%—a reduction of almost 1
billion people.
Now the world has a serious chance to redeem Truman’s pledge
to lift the least fortunate. Of the 7 billion people alive on the
planet, 1.1 billion subsist below the internationally accepted
extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a day...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
English intensive
5 February–6 March 2014
17 lessons; 34 hours
your approach
60,851,000
population of Italy

60,851,000
2,014,000
2,014,000
students in higher
education
3.31%
% of uni students
in Italy

3.31%
this number
means you are
special

3.31%
in these lessons
I expect your approach
to show this
in other words
please bring your intelligence
and commitment to class
about learning English
intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!
intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!
‘drift’
progress

time
progress

Can you describe
this graph?

time
progress
the
intermediate
plateau

time
English as
object of
study

English as
means of
communication
vocab:
1,000-3,000
words

vocab:
15,000+
words
grammar:
past, present,
future

grammar
as a
system
foreign
language as
alien

foreign
language as
culture
what can you do to get past
the intermediate plateau

?
about this course
components:
grammar
grammar
we decide the grammar syllabus
together
some ideas…
grammar verbs vs. main verbs
would have done
present perfect
future tenses
modal verbs
word order
something else
pronunciation
pronunciation

every Monday
pronunciation
the English phonetic system
is different
video comprehension
video comprehension

every Thursday
in class
in class
‘show and tell’
every lesson
in class
group presentations
instead of final exam
on the forum
1. lesson summaries
2. grammar homework
example post

English Grammar in Use
Units 15-16
----------I’ve done the exercises. It took me
20 minutes.
I understood everything except 2.4
– why is ―….‖ not right?
examples of how you can get
English practice
watch a film in English
TED
iTunes U
BBC or other reading on the internet
reading a research paper for your subject
talking to Anglophone tourists in the pub
3. anything you find interesting
The forum is your space. Use it
to post anything you find,
interesting, curious or useful.
You can ask for help and you
can propose problems for
discussion.
Remember that you can learn a
lot from your classmates

- read their writing homework
- try to answer their questions
resources for this course
all the links on the following
pages can be found at:
https://pinboard.in/u:davidatrome/t:Roma3/
resources: I
grammar book
buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
OK not
‘steal’

buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
 intermediate
 4th edition
 with answers
(CD-ROM optional)
 intermediate
 4th edition
 with answers
(CD-ROM optional)
resources: II
CLACSON
Moodle@CLA
http://webdev3.caspur.it/cla/
no capitals
no spaces
no accents
resources: III
dictionaries
Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary (OALD)
www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com
Bi-lingual dictionaries
don’t use them!
Bi-lingual dictionaries
but if you must…
WordReference
http://www.wordreference.com/
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/o#.UbBFkha0
LzI
resources: V
video and audio practice
iTunes U
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u
TED
(Technology, Entertainment, Design)
www.ted.com
The BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/inde
x.shtml
some good places to read:
BBC – www.bbc.co.uk
The Economist – www.economist.com
Wired – www.wired.com
The New Yorker – www.newyorker.com
and also
My paper.li – paper.li/f-1337027006
if you have any problems
if you have any problems about
anything related to this course
write to me on
Moodle@CLA
or at
david@davidnicholson.it
www.davidnicholson.it

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