Inglese B2+ parte 2

This course aims to take students from a B2 level of English to B2+, working with authentic materials to develop students’ autonomous language learning skills as well as their actual language skills. A range of different text types and language varieties are used to consolidate strategies for improving the four language skills, vocabulary and grammar. Students will be encouraged to follow up their own interests in English, starting from themes connected with globalization, technology, cultural integration and the role of tradition.

Four projects are designed to stimulate students’ interactions in real English. Two of them focus more on the written language, and the other two principally on speaking and interacting.
After an initial session in class, the media monitoring project takes place mostly outside the classroom. Similarly, the non-fiction book project is largely autonomous, but includes a final presentation. Both of these projects also include specific work on making good use of artificial intelligence and avoiding plagiarism.

Two or three debates will be held during the semester, with significant class time devoted to their preparation. A lot of class time is devoted to the ongoing discussion project. 

Materials and exercises of various kinds are exploited throughout the semester in relation to all of the projects. 

For each of the skills, an initial encounter with the difficulties of various authentic materials will lead on to a systematic development of students’ autonomous ability to continue to improve their knowledge and use of the language.

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