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Degree course in
Civil and environmental engineering
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Engineering and Architecture

ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUALIFYING EXAM B1
cod. 1005155

Academic year 2017/18
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
NOT ASSIGNED
Academic discipline
Indefinito/interdisciplinare (NN)
Field
Per la conoscenza di almeno una lingua straniera
Type of training activity
Language/Final test
21 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
hub:
course unit
in ENGLISH
lectures timetable unavailable
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Learning objectives

This course aims to bring students to B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe) in the skills of reading and listening, and in Use of English.

Prerequisites

This course is aimed at students who already have an elementary knowledge of English and who understand simple communication.

Course unit content

The course is structured in interactive lessons focusing on the following topics:

Grammar
• articles
• demonstratives
• possessives and possessive ‘s
• personal pronouns
• some and any
• countable and uncountable nouns
• quantifiers
• comparatives and superlatives
• relative pronouns
• main prepositions of place and time
• indirect questions
• main conjunctions
• main phrasal/prepositional verbs
• Present Simple and Present Continuous
• Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• Present Perfect Simple
• The future (going to, will, Present Simple, Present Continuous)
• First conditional
• Time clauses and the Present Simple)
• The Passive voice (Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect)
• Modal verbs (can, could, must, will, would, should)
Vocabulary
* spelling
• numbers (prices, quantities, dates, etc.)
• family
• free time activities
• house and furniture
• public places and shops
• jobs
• food and drinks
• animals
• weather
• clothes
• parts of the body and health problems
• means of transport
• everyday objects
Functions
• describing people (character and appearance)
• telling the time and dates
• describing everyday habits and routines
• ordering in a restaurant or in a hotel
• understanding notices, labels, adverts
• road directions
• describing holidays, trips, etc.
• describing objects (size, colour, shape, etc.)
• warnings and prohibitions
• obligation and absence of obligations
• agreement/disagreement
• criticisms and complaints
• talking about preferences
• describing feelings and emotions

Full programme

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Bibliography

For grammar, functions and vocabulary:
M. Foley, D. Hall, My GrammarLab, Pearson

Textbook
C. Latham-Koenig, C. Oxenden, P. Seligson, English File Digital Pre-Intermediate (3rd edition),
OUP

Further practice:
S. Burgess, J.Newbrook, PET Gold Preliminary Exam Maximer with key, Pearson

Teaching methods

Methodology: presentation of structures, deduction of rule, contrastive use of the language, use of different teaching aids (slides, audioCDs, textbook, etc.).

Assessment methods and criteria

final test with multiple choice questions on grammar, lexis, functions, reading and listening comprehension.

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office

E. segreteria.ingarc@unipr.it 

Quality assurance office

Quality Assurance Manager:
Jasmine Salame Younis
T. +39 0521 906045
E. office dia.didattica@unipr.it
E. manager jasmine.salameyounis@unipr.it

Course President

Prof. Andrea Zanini
E. andrea.zanini@unipr.it

Faculty advisor

Prof. Luca Chiapponi
E. luca.chiapponi@unipr.it

Prof.ssa Alice Sirico
E. alice.sirico@unipr.it

Carrier guidance delegate

Prof. Andrea Segalini
E. andrea.segalini@unipr.it

Tutor Professors

Prof. Andrea Maranzoni
E. andrea.maranzoni@unipr.it

Erasmus delegates

Prof.ssa Patrizia Bernardi
E. patrizia.bernardi@unipr.it
Prof.ssa Elena Romeo
E. elena.romeo@unipr.it

Quality assurance manager

Prof. Andrea Segalini
E. andrea.segalini@unipr.it

Tutor students

Matteo Pianforini
E. matteo.pianforini@studenti.unipr.it