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English intensive12 June–21 July 201413 lessons; 26 hours
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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
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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
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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
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English intensive12 June–21 July 201413 lessons; 26 hours
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Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June2 Monday 16 June3 Thursday 19 June4 Monday 23 June5 Thursday 26 June6 Monday 30 June7 Thursday 03 July8 Monday 07 July9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July11 Wednesday 16 July12 Thursday 17 July13 Monday 21 July
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date and timeto be confirmed
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June2 Monday 16 June3 Thursday 19 June4 Monday 23 June5 Thursday 26 June6 Monday 30 June7 Thursday 03 July8 Monday 07 July9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July11 Wednesday 16 July12 Thursday 17 July13 Monday 21 July
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final presentations
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June2 Monday 16 June3 Thursday 19 June4 Monday 23 June5 Thursday 26 June6 Monday 30 June7 Thursday 03 July8 Monday 07 July9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July11 Wednesday 16 July12 Thursday 17 July13 Monday 21 July
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your approach
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60,924,000
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60,924,000
population of Italy
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2,014,000
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2,014,000students in higher
education
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3.3%
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3.3%
% of uni students in Italy
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3.3%
this number means you are
special
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in these lessonsI expect your approach
to show this
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in other words
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please bring your intelligence and commitment to class
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about learning English
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intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!
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intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!
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‘drift’
?
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progress
time
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progress
time
Can you describe this
graph?
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progress
time
the intermediate plateau
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English as object of study
English as means of communication
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vocab:1,000-3,000words
vocab:15,000+words
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grammar:past, present, future
grammaras asystem
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foreign language as alien
foreign language as culture
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what can you do to get pastthe intermediate plateau
?
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about this course
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components:
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grammar
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grammarwe decide the grammar syllabus
together
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some ideas…
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grammar verbs vs. main verbswould have donepresent perfectfuture tensesmodal verbsword order
something else
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pronunciation
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pronunciation
every Monday
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pronunciationthe English phonetic system
is different
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video comprehension
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video comprehension
every Thursday
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in class
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in class‘show and tell’every lesson
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in classgroup presentationsinstead of final exam
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on the forum
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1. lesson summaries
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2. grammar homework
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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
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examples of how you can get English practice
watch a film in EnglishTED
iTunes UBBC or other reading on the internet
reading a research paper for your subjecttalking to Anglophone tourists in the pub
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3. anything you find interesting
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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.
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Remember that you can learn a lot from your classmates
- read their writing homework- try to answer their questions
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resources for this course
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all the links on the following pages can be found at:
https://pinboard.in/u:davidatrome/t:Roma3/
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resources: I
grammar book
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buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
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buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
OK not ‘steal’
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intermediate 4th edition with answers
(CD-ROM optional)
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intermediate 4th edition with answers
(CD-ROM optional)
NB don’t buy
the iOS
version: it
isn’t the same
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resources: II
CLACSON
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Moodle@CLA
http://clacson.uniroma3.it
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no capitals
no spaces
no accents
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resources: III
dictionaries
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Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD)
www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com
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Bi-lingual dictionaries
don’t use them!
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Bi-lingual dictionaries
but if you must…
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WordReference
http://www.wordreference.com/
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Oxford Collocations Dictionary
http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/o#.UbBFkha0LzI
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resources: V
video and audio practice
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iTunes U
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u
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TED(Technology, Entertainment, Design)
www.ted.com
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The BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
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some good places to read:
BBC – www.bbc.co.ukThe Economist – www.economist.comWired – www.wired.comThe New Yorker – www.newyorker.comand alsoMy paper.li – paper.li/f-1337027006
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if you have any problems about anything related to this course
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write to me onMoodle@CLA
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www.davidnicholson.it