2008_09
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Facultat de Lletres
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Filologia Hispanica (2001)
 Assignatures
  LLENGUA I LITERATURA ANGLESA
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
Module 1 Introduction to the course
Placement test
Grammar: Question formation; short answers
Speaking: Introductions
Listening: Understanding an anecdote
Literature: The English literature (an introduction);Old English Literature: Beowulf
Module 2 Grammar: Present perfect & simple past; reflexive pronouns; present perfect continuous & simple
Vocabulary: expressions of relationship; common verb phrases; look/look like; pronunciation
Speaking: Describing a friend; family relationship; friendship
Listening:People meeting and saying goodbye
Reading: Magazine and newspaper articles
Writing: My best friend
Literature: Medieval Literature 1066-1510: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Module 3 Grammar: Present simple & continuous; adverbs of frequency; quantifiers; gerund & infinitive; question tags; so & neither/nor
Vocabulary: Verb phrases; prepositions of time; food & diets
Speaking: Lifestyle; habits
Listening: Interviews with people of different professions
Reading: Magazine and newpaper articles; signs and notices
Writing: A letter to a friend
Literature: Renaissance and Reformation Literature 1510-1620: Shakespeare; film; written commentary
Module 4 Grammar: used to + infinitive/gerund; gerund & infinitive (cont.); can/could & be able to
Vocabulary: Common verb phrases; education; strong adjectives; pronunciation
Speaking: Education; reading habits; skills
Listening: Interviews with people of different professions
Writing: Advantages and Disadvantages
Literature: Eighteenth Century Literature 1690-1780: Defoe, Daniel, Sterne, Laurence
Module 5 Grammar: the future:will/going to; may & might; 1st & 2nd conditionals
Vocabulary:Jobs & work; money; shops; pronunciation
Speaking: Jobs; fortune-telling; imaginary situations
Listening: Interviews related to jobs; conversations in a shop
Reading: Short story
Literature: The Romantic Period 1780-1830: Austen, Jane; film; written commentary
Module 6 Grammar: must, have to, should; past perfect simple; relative clauses; indirect questions
Vocabulary: vehicles & traffic; compound nouns
Speaking: Transport; cars; pollution
Listening: Travelling; tourists; street interviews; tourist information
Reading: Letter giving directions
Literature: High Victorian Literature 1880-1920: Dickens, Charles; written answers about a text
Module 7 Grammar: The passive; comparatives; narrative tenses
Vocabulary: the cinema; sports; song lyrics, pronunciation
Speaking: the cinema; music; going out
Listening: Conversation about a film; a radio programme
Literature: Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920: Oscar Wilde
Module 8 Grammar: Might/could, must, can't; connectors; reported speech Vocabulary: Tourism, travelling, complaints, pronunciation
Speaking: Describing a tourist resort; holidays
Listening: Conversation between a tourist and a waiter; travel stories
Literature: Modernism and its Alternatives: Joyce, James
Module 9 Grammar: Third conditional; general revision
Vocabulary: ships and disasters
Speaking: Speaking about disasters
Listening: Radio story
Literature: Post War and Postmodernist Literature 1945-: Greene, Graham; McCourt, Frank
Module 10 Written monographic paper about a literaty work and its author; oral presentation in class of the above-mentioned paper.
This module will be developed simultaneously with modules 8 & 9.