english intro intensive june july 2015

English intensiveJune-July 2015

Towards the end of poverty

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

find 20 errors

Towards the end of poverty

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

find 20 errors

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 intensiveJune-July 2015

your approach

60,924,000

60,924,000

population of Italy

2,014,000

2,014,000students in higher

education

3.3%

3.3%

% of uni students in Italy

3.3%

this number means you are

special

in these lessonsI 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’

?

Can you describe this graph?

progress

time

the intermediate plateau

English as object of study

English as means of communication

vocab:1,000-3,000words

vocab:15,000+words

grammar:past, present, future

grammaras asystem

foreign language as alien

foreign language as culture

what can you do to get pastthe intermediate plateau

?

about this course

grammar

grammarwe decide the grammar syllabus

together

some ideas…

in class

in class‘show and tell’every lesson

‘show and tell’

choose an object that has a special importance for you

‘show and tell’

you will tell the classabout this object

‘show and tell’

you will havejust 5 minutes

‘show and tell’

tell the story of how the object came into your life

‘show and tell’

say whyit’s special for you now

‘show and tell’

how to prepare for your‘show and tell’

‘show and tell’

research special vocab

‘show and tell’

research special vocabincluding pronunciation!

‘show and tell’

practice speaking aloud

‘show and tell’

practice speaking aloudto find problem language

and resolve it

on the forum

1. lesson summaries

2. grammar homework

English Grammar in UseUnits 15-16-----------I’ve done the exercises. It took me 20 minutes.I understood everything except 2.4 – why is “….” not right?

example post

3. writing homework

Instructions on-line

Forum style corrections.Correct your writing mistakes in a forum conversation with me.

4. your space!

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

resources: I

CLACSON

Moodle@CLA

http://clacson2.uniroma3.it

your login for:Portale Studente Roma Tre

NBIf you can’t log in,

you must inform me

immediately

NBIf you can’t log in,

you must inform me

immediately

English Grammar in Use

Buy, beg, borrow or steal a copy of EGU

Buy, beg, borrow or steal a copy of EGU

OK not ‘steal’

3rd or 4th editions are best, but you can use the 2nd edition

there are also versions for iOS and Android

Use EGU for grammar homework

resources: II

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/

if you have any problems about anything related to this course

write to me onMoodle@CLA

or atdavid@davidnicholson.it

www.davidnicholson.it